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Re: Please help: computer purchase for FIRST sw
Dell Financial Services -- off lease Dell computers - specifically the off lease workstations - are what we purchased this past year. They were on the hardware lists for SolidWorks in 2007 so we added RAM and check the video cards. The video cards left some to be desired, but that's not an expensive upgrade anymore. They came with a Windows license, which is a savings over building your own and having to add a Windows license.

dfsdirectsales.com

I'm always on a tight budget, so looking for online coupons and waiting until a free shipping offer came up to combine with the coupon was the trick that worked for me. Holiday season seems to bring out some good deals.

Best of luck. -- Oh, and using the Mac running windows...there is no support for that with Solid Works (or AutoDesk I believe). If you hit issues with that you are on your own for support.
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