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Wayne Harney · February 12th, 2008

I'm using a vostro 1700 with no complaints. Good price/performance IMO. The gf 8600m works fine with 3dsmax. I have the true life which does glare badly but I've learned to live with it (usually just tilting it down a little solves the glare). I use it a ton with photoshop and the color performance is worth it but if that's not a priority I'd get the non glare. The extra hi res also results in tiny icons and text that can only be fixed to a certain point by increasing windows text size. I have my text size set to the biggest possible (anything bigger screws up my toolbars) and it's still hard to read. I wouldn't bother with more than 2GB of ram without a 64bit OS. I'm using XP32 with 2gb.

February 12th, 2008	#2 (permalink)
Wayne Harney Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Montana Posts: 62 Name: Wayne Harney	Re: vostro 1500 practicable for 3d? I'm using a vostro 1700 with no complaints. Good price/performance IMO. The gf 8600m works fine with 3dsmax. I have the true life which does glare badly but I've learned to live with it (usually just tilting it down a little solves the glare). I use it a ton with photoshop and the color performance is worth it but if that's not a priority I'd get the non glare. The extra hi res also results in tiny icons and text that can only be fixed to a certain point by increasing windows text size. I have my text size set to the biggest possible (anything bigger screws up my toolbars) and it's still hard to read. I wouldn't bother with more than 2GB of ram without a 64bit OS. I'm using XP32 with 2gb. __________________ Pssssst... a Mac IS a PC!