Hopefuly we will not judge the man by speculations about his sexuality.
Some of his quotes are profound and timeless.
@unknownuser said:
There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey.
Why is there no help topic for this class?
http://download.sketchup.com/OnlineDoc/gsu6_ruby/Docs/ruby-importer.html#load_file
Does anybody have any info relating to methods for this class?
For a long time I used gaming grade cards with SU and I never new any better. Recently I have been using a Nvidia Quadro FX 1600 (laptop card) which blows the socks off any workstations I have used with SU.
For a workstation card have a look at Quadro FX 2500 or 3500. If you have the dough you could consider the new FX 4600.
If your'e looking to upgrade go for a machine with a Nvidia Quadro FX card. These are cards specialised for technical use as apposed to gaming use. The latest mobile spec is Quadro FX 1600. CAD\3D Workstations typically spec Quadro FX 3500 but there are new cards just out (I think FX 4600,FX 5600)
Laptops to look at is Dell Precision M6300, Dell precision M90 (Very good deals at the moment) , HP 8710w and worth a look is the CAD2 IMAGINE Go Laptop Workstation.
If you have the money you can also look at Area-51
m9750 with dual graphics card option.
I recently bought an HP and it has handled sketchup models of substantial size very well.
While the dual core argument is true as far as sketchup is concerned bear in mind that your laptop will be a lot more responsive if you use other applications in conjunction with sketchup.
Hope that is of some help.
I'll take that as a no then...
Have been thinking about writing this myself for a while but time has been wanting: A benchmark application that would evaluate machine hardware specifically based on Sketchup performance should not be too difficult to write. Such a utility would be fantastically useful when evaluating new machines before purchase and also to test suspected performance degradation based on earlier results. It would help to show when existing machines start to fall behind against newer technology and assist in making unemotional upgrade decisions. It could also help us in building the ultimate SU workstation!
So gentlemen, why don't we put our heads together on this one and develop a spec before rushing off and developing 20 variants in isolation.
Any takers?
Now if only you could give us style-by-object display in Sketchup this would be utterly amazing.