i have a contractor who has this computer below. think it cost $350.
any chance this will run S2011? anyone else using an emachinefor SW2011?
?i no nothing of the amd's nor the emachines
AMD Athlon II X2 250 dual core processor.
3GB RAM expandable to 8GB
video card; Nvidia QUADRO FX 380 LP
You should be good to go with that box. The video card has a driver approved by SolidWorks for XP and Windows 7. The brand doesnt matter but it looks like you should be good to go. The x2 250 is 3.0 GHZ pretty decent and supports 64 bit if you wanted to take the ram up to 8GB to improve performance. I would not expect awesomeness out of it but would be good for modeling/creating drawings.