Long time ago I also wonder about SketchUp future on Google's hands 
I want to ask if somebody knows and can share this informations, how many people left from the original development stuff of SU from @Last days, and if he thinks that the original code is at his limits, so further progress is difficult.
George
What do you think about this?
http://www.hkepc.com/bbs/itnews.php?tid=789466&starttime=0&endtime=0
George
My poor opinion is to avoid 7200 RPM Hard Drive. I bought two years ago a 60gb HD 7200 in order to extend the life of an older Laptop. A small gain in performance was lost in batterie life (less 30%), noise and higher temperature.
This is the reason most manufacturers avoid using them. And generally all components at laptops work in lower level comparing with their desktop counterparts.
There are models with two hard drives, so you can configure them as Raid-0 (with all the drawbacks of Raid-0), for better performance.
I read once in AnandTech site, a comparison between HD with 7200rpm vs 5400. The performance of 7200 was not so great as it was expected. So current Hard Drive Technology is a great bottleneck for PC's performance.
Hi Ron,
I have a Toshiba Satellite A-100 Centrino C2D 7400, Nvidia 7600GT GO 256, 120Gb HD and 1Gb ram. Is a general purpose notebook and works acceptable with SU5Pro and SU6 both installed and last update for su6 6.0.515 solved a problem with AntiAlias 4x in OpenGL and dimensioning (used to freeze both). I will add one more stick of memory(1Gb), because mine and most modern laptops, load many drivers at startup (Bluetooth, wireless etc)and with firewall enabled leave only 512 Mb Ram free. You can find some usefull informations at http://www.notebookcheck.net with comparisons of mobile cpu's and vga cards.
If you need best mobile performance for Cad and 3D, probably you have to look for nvidia quadro armed notebooks, but at much higher price level.
Hi Tom,
Give a try to Omega drivers at guru3d
http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?id=24
I had similar problems with an ATI Mobility Radeon and since ATi stopped providing newer drivers it was the only solution using the apropriate Omega driver to extend the life of my old Laptop.
Regards
@tomsdesk said:
gata...no, no custom materials: just a bunch of components, including some 1-2meg antique cars from the warehouse. Just dug deeper into the hardware req's on the SU6 site and saw for the first time the 512meg video line...oops.
Paul...can't find my "readme" file either (burned it to a CD that's in that "place" where I won't loose it but can never find it :`) but the tech notes in the SU5 help sections says the ATI Rage Mobility isn't complient...doesn't mention the Radeon?
Dumber than dumb...I just pushed these thoughts to driver searching again and this time didn't use my Dell service tag number (just the model and card name) and found a 2005 ATI driver 9 months newer than the one installed on my machine...go figure?
Anyway, didn't help...damn it?
Thanks, though.So I'm convinced my budget for a new machine needs to expand to include a 512 quadro FX and at least a 2.2 processer (if I want to notice the difference between it and my 1.6?). As will the time to wait for it.
Anybody know the straight poop on whether 4gig of ram is any better than 3gig...I mean, can XP Pro even use that much? Also, cache memory...2meg, 4meg, more?
OK. My problem is that I want to see progress and further development for my favorite software. Am I wrong?
IMHO Sketchup progress is poor and very limited. @Last days left and never come back again. Sorry but I cannot express my thoughts correct because English is not my native language. Last update was the last drop. I will stay with pro version 5 and memories of a great piece of software that lost in the dust.
Thank you
CraigD,
I have many objections about working (google su team) smarter (at least). And please don't use @Last name any more.
There is a great ruby script from TIG - grow.rb - various arrays and more..
You can find it at Didier Bur's site
http://www.crai.archi.fr/RubyLibraryDepot/Ruby/RUBY_Library_Depot.htm
Regards,
George
Is there a possibility you use SU5?
Because (unfortunatelly) Mover.rb works only in SU6.
Just a thought
George