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Same with me. I started using AutoCad in the late 80's on a 286 box. Redraws were so slow I bought a math coprocessor chip (remember those?). Redraws were much much faster but the chip was something like $250.
I think it was the 386 that had the math coprocessor built-in. I updated to that when I could afford it.
I still use Autocad frequently, but the light version. It does everything I need and it's a lot cheaper than the full version, but still kinda pricey. Need to learn the 3D Inventor side now.
LOL: It was the 486 that had a built-in processor. It was the 87 (for the 8086 and 8088), 287 and 387 prior to that. I went through the upgrade path on all those crazy things back in their day. Now, I'm finally smart enough to stay off the bleeding edge... Seems Moore's law is slowing down -at least in the commercial space. RAM recently got a little fast but, the mainstay processors are have been i3, i5 and i7 for several years now.
And getting back on track here, my laptop has an i5 @ 2.6 GHz, a dedicated graphics card and 16 GB of RAM. It runs all the CAD, QuickBooks, CAM Simulators and general Office applications simultaneously without skipping a beat. It's a laptop workstation -not notebook. -My life depends on this machine. I have another machine just in case and I do offline backups every other day.
Ray