Who makes workstation notebooks.

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Wrench00

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Who makes workstatioon based notebooks besides. HP, Dell, Lenovo/IBM?

Looking for a price range of 1400-1600
 
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Totally agree on the T61p part. You can get a T61p with 15.4" screen (WUXGA or WSXGA+), Penryn Core 2 Duo Processor, Nvidia Quadro 570m workstation graphics card, etc all for $1500 or less with coupons.

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Thats good to hear, because I will be in Canada for only three weeks.

I am also thinking of geting extended warranty.. Is it worth it.. I don't really care about the battery much it will be pluged in most of the time.
 
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Yeah, it's worth it. This isn't some consumer trash that'll last a year and break, I've used decade old Thinkpads that still worked good as new, and was issued a 6 year old 600E at my old job that looked like it'd never been used (other than the shiny keys).

The first time something breaks, it's worth it.

I had an R60 where the bottom plastic piece had a crack in it and the LCD's bezel snapped at a screw. They sent someone out to replace both of them, didn't have to do anything (actually, Lenovo wouldn't send out the parts as they're not listed as customer replacable...but I had everything taken apart for when the guy got here).

As far as accidental goes, up to you. I went ahead and bought it on my T61P....but I would never settle for anything less than the next business day in-home.
 
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Great Thanks for the input.. Now to hold out a month with out a laptop is going to suck :(
 
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We use the Dell Precision Series Laptops where I work. They 're Dell's workstation laptop series. I'm personally using an M90 17", on which I run CATIA 5, as well as other engineering programs.

We're still using Windows XP Pro on all our computers where I work.

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My vote goes for a thinkpad. I use an old thinkpad x24 and I love the thing. It's pretty much indestructible. Plus, thinkpads have the most comfortable keyboards IMO.
 
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Damn I got to wait 4 more weeks.. Its painful to work on a P4 with a Quadro DCC card..
 
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AthlonXP said:
your best bet is a T61p.
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I work with a ton of biz clients that need CAD effects, and the T61p takes the cake. As another solution, check with a T61. It won't be as top of the line as the T61p, but it will still have similar features.

As in locations to pick one of the t61's up, MicroCenter seems to stock them on location if you have one close to you.
 
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