autocad 2008 has 64bit edition

for the compatibility issue, some old softwares like visual studio 6.0 cant run on win7, but 1 of my friend using it in win7 64 bit using compatibility mode. others i cant comment due to not enough info.

Dell studio 15 can support la bro..

its just not make sense.

maybe its a rumor only, unless you have any source to be share together

QFT.

choose CPU with HTT support will make your work easier in this field

it can run those games without any problem, don't worry

Thank you everyone for their comments ^^
I will switch to 64-bit soon kekeke~ The salesman make it sounded like A LOT of programs also cannot use on 64-bit systems O____O
Games (be it old or new), also no problem right?
Please excuse my noobishness

I thought u can always change the compatibility mode

compatibility mode is back to Vista, XP, etc only...

but Win x64 has WOW64 to solve the problems with 32-bit apps...

so that means that some programs cant use 64-bit?

dun understand...

the only problem that really have problem with 64-bit OS are the 16-bit apps, which MS has decided to remove support in the OS totally...

if u can't install a certain app in Win7 (be it 32-bit or 64-bit), chances are the program is too old to run on Win NT 6 totally...

the salesman maybe can names two or three program that cannot run with 64-bit, but there are thousand of softwares out there that do not face any problem with that.

and personally - i don't even know what program that have complication with 64-bit. never seen/use it before

azuan, from my exp (correct me if im wrong)

-For gaming, GPU will do all d processing calculation and poligon movement. So high GPU is needed for high end gaming

-For programming stuff, autocad, simulations and all that u need good CPU and RAM. So i5-520M 2.4GHz and 4GB DDR3 should be enough for little programming stuff.

my suggestion for u? well im looking into Dell vostro 3700 or Asus A42JR
Dell (i5-430M 2.26GHz proc with 1G GT330M GPU)
Asus (i5-520M 2.4GHz proc with 1G HD5470 GPU)
both around 3k. but of coz, if u have high budget, then u shud consider better lappy =D