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Re: Computers for SolidWorks
Ask for donations/grant money for computers.
Generally you wouldn't be able to take school computers home but see about getting access after hours/lunch/etc.
We got some of our computers from our mentor who is in IT, some of which are decent enough to run SW. However most of our computers are student computers that are well off enough to run SW.
The cheapest way to get decent computers, would probably be building custom desktops with parts from newegg/amazon.

As for win7 versions it doesn't matter which one, pro/ult,perm but make sure to get a 64bit version so you can use more then 3gb of ram. As for XP, there is no reason to get XP over 7 but SW does work under XP.

Spec wise my current laptop, i5 + 8gb ram + intel HD3000 + Win 7, runs Solidworks 2012 for the most part fine but it does slow down with large assemblies, such as a full drive train or robot. A desktop with at least a dual/quad core + 4gb ram + workstation graphics card is really what you need for large assemblies with Solidworks.
Also older versions of Solidworks tend to run better on slower machines, such as 2007/2008.
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