Don't forget running processes. If you have everything running on start-up then, yes, it will be slow.
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I agree but also want to point out that i7's (not sure about i5's) have turbo-mode. That does give one the best of both worlds ie high clock speed when needed and multi-core when needed.
Okay, I'm baaaack! So I am just gonna bump this thread and ask
@bigseb (1) when did you move from South Africa to Merry Olde England? and (2) When did you change your avatar to an (obviously) younger man? IIRC you have been a Super User almost since Day 1, maybe even longer than
@Ralf.
There are so many friends and acquaintances and useful informants here that I have missed exchanging ideas with, but I would like to get back to using Alibre Design again, after suffering, lo, those many months with Geomagic Design, but eventually seeing the light that
@Max was holding high at the end of the tunnel.
Originally, I had three install licenses for Alibre Expert: one on my Dell PC at work and one on my home-built PC at home. I later installed the third licensed copy on my HP laptop.
I was forced to "retire" from my day job on December 31, 2014 when work for the particle accelerator that I operated and maintained vanished. As a result, that Alibre license also vanished when I deleted everything from the hard disk at work. This was a real delete, not a fake "marked for delete but Microsoft will let you restore it delete." I wiped that puppy clean. It was too bad if UES didn't do periodic backups, but no one ever said anything about it and I never asked.
That left Alibre still running on the home-built Pentium 4 PC with Microsoft XP Pro... said PC still spread out on my desk without a case (told wife they run cooler that way and are easier to work on if something goes wrong...). Then I decided to load Alibre onto the HP Laptop with its Intel Core i3 CPU and Windows 7 OS. That worked okay, especially after I got a wireless Logitech mouse to use with the laptop. Then we bought a house here in Florida and moved in December 2016. I collected the home-built PC into cardboard boxes for the mobo and disk drives and cables and such and bubble-wrapped the flat-screen LCD monitors, carefully placing all the boxes in a large Pensky truck for the drive from Dayton, Ohio to Venice, Florida. We tried to move everything in one trip, but there was a lot of stuff that stayed behind... most of it mighty fine junque that was too large or too heavy or both.
I also brought along to Florida two other home-built PCs, each based on an Intel Core i7 CPU mounted on an Asus P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3 mobo. I mentioned that I planned to build these earlier in this thread (see post #22). One of these was "my" PC and the other one was "wife's" PC. However, I had not installed anything other than Windows 7 Professional on the two computers and a few thousand dollars worth of Corel software and drawing pad hardware on wife's computer. I was still running Alibre Design from the HP Laptop, although rather infrequently since I really had no real application for it.
Fast forward past yet another near-fatal heart attack in March 2017, followed by a successful open-heart coronary artery double-bypass graft (cabg procedure) around a completely plugged "widow-maker" artery located behind my heart, and then a year-long recovery, Finally, three years later, I feel up to trying to use Alibre again. Of course, I will now need to be completely retrained.
I think I renewed Alibre maintenance only once since my last upgrade, and that maintenance has since expired. Worse, I spilled a Coca-Cola on my HP laptop keyboard a month or so ago, while it was on "shore power," and it now refuses to work. So, desperate for a working PC, I hauled my latest home-built PC out of storage. My wife's home-built PC is virtually identical to mine, except mine also had a SSD and a second optical drive. Her HDD failed the month after we moved to Florida, just a few days after the HDD warranty expired. So, I moved my HDD and the SDD to wife's PC and ordered a replacement HDD. I also ordered a replacement for the HP laptop HDD, which had been acting flaky, but I had not installed it when I bricked the laptop with the Coca-Cola.
Both of the home-built PCs had Windows 7 Professional installed, subsequently upgraded to Windows 10 Professional this year for free from the Microsoft website. This despite Microsoft ending support for Windows 7 earlier this year. Thank you, Microsoft, for not completely abandoning us loyal Windoze users.
I think I might have been running "Geomagic Design 15.1.1" when my maintenance expired, but Alibre will have to verify that. In any event, I need to download and install whatever version to which my "permanent license" entitles me. I still cannot afford, on my limited retirement income, to purchase maintenance or an upgrade to version 22 or whatever the Alibre soup
du jour happens to be.
Whatever the current state of Alibre Design, I am sure it is better than anything 3DS and/or Geomagic Design has/had to offer. What a waste of time, money, and effort that was! I am sure glad
@Max and others were able to buy Alibre back. But meanwhile, I just downloaded and installed FreeCAD, which may or may not run well on Windows 10... it was designed by a bunch of geeks to run in the Linux environment, which I have yet to embrace (except for a Raspberry Pi that sits unused somewhere on or near my desk)... so no active Linux users here.
I notice there are recent posts here from "the usual suspects," so I guess Alibre and this forum is still alive, as are most of the folks I exchanged words with... youse guys knows who you are.
Hop -- AC8NS