Penny Pinching buyer decides to become Bullet Biting user

This is a followup to this thread:

https://forum.solidworks.com/message/908846

Thanks to everybody. I believe I have narrowed my decision.

Professional System from Shuttle

Considerations:

- About refurbished well known brand: I rather invest in state of the art from a (relatively) unknown vendor.

- Laptop?: Not for me. Those devices are not designed to last of take much abuse. The constraints faced by laptop designers imply that many features are out.

I had no idea that the video card (GPU) was so critical... (Well, duh!). Since this PC is not for games, but professional work I selected a Quadro. However, I am worried that it is not made by Nvidia but by PNY.

TIA

-Ramon

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