Question:
3d modelling an Photoshop work laptop
well i'll appreciate any help
my problem occured to be that i'm living in europe
and unfortunately europe market is quite different from american
i'm an architect
and most of my time(at least 8 - 10 hours) i sped with 3d modelling (3ds max) and PS task (most of the PSD files i work with are between 150 - 200gb)
after a more than two week research
i found that most suitable laptop for a price 1800$ is TOSHIBA SATELLITE P105
but sush laptop is unavailable for europe (european version is P100)
and TOSHIBA EUROPE doesn't offer HDD (7200 rpm)
and i can't even confugure a laptop whitch is unintelligible for me
my question is have you any idea what laptop would be suitable for my work
and can be bought in europe
i extremely need fast HDD (opening the psd files on my desktop computer bought before 6 months needs 3 - 5 min)
dual core processor, 1gb memory and good graphics controller
DELLs have a good confugurations and reasonable prices but i heard a lot of bad things about DELLs - HDD problems, heat problems and other stuff
for a glimpse i even think i can handle with THINKPAD R60 or THINKPAD T60
but these are business computers
i would be grateful to any help
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Re: 3d modelling an Photoshop work laptop
If you're going to be doing a lot of 3D rendering, etc. you actually probably want to look at a laptop equipped with something like one of the NVidia Quadro cards - these are optimized really for 3D rendering, etc. and you'll get the best performance from an app like 3ds max with it. And really, what is most important with this is having the fastest render times possible.
For the money you spend on the P105, I think you could get a better workstation class laptop - you are paying a lot for the 7900GS in the P105, which is certainly a good card, but optimized more for 3d gaming than 3d rendering.
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Re: 3d modelling an Photoshop work laptop
Look for something with this:
http://www.nvidia.com/page/quadrofx_go.html
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Re: 3d modelling an Photoshop work laptop
Hey, uh, oneyedummy. I'm an architect too and I know how you must feel.
In general, don't let RAM and hard drives deter you from an otherwise suitable notebook. You can upgrade those things much cheaper yourself anyway.
As for the video card, in my opinion (for what it's worth), I wouldn't bother with quadros or fire GLs. Maybe if you were working with an OpenGL application, like Maya or XSI, you'd want to go with a 'professional' level card, but 3ds MAX's OpenGL implementation sucks (it always has). MAX actually runs much faster using the Direct 3D drivers. In otherwords, any 'consumer' level card that gives you good D3D performance will be good for MAX. And any difference in speed between a professional level card and a gamer's card wouldn't come close to justifying the price.
What will make a difference is the video memory. There are a lot of notebooks that come with 256MB x1600s or even 512MB 7600s. Most gamers will complain that a 7600 won't benefit from having 512MB of RAM. Okay, if you're playing Doom or whatever, you might not see an increase in FPS, but if you're working in MAX on a 5 million+ poly scene....
I'm currently looking for a new notebook and I'm leaning towards the Thinkpads that you mentioned. You won't get the best performance for the best price, but I'd rather pay for quality and reliability first and then spend on performance if I have any money left over.
Zadillo, good advice, but again since oneye is using 3ds MAX, I honestly don't think that a pro board is the best way to go. As for rendering speed, I guess you mean real time viewport rendering since 3ds MAX doesn't utilize graphics cards for actual rendering output to image or animation files; it's dependent on CPU speed and RAM. Fortunately for us notebook users, even a 1.66GHz core duo is much faster than my dual 2.8GHz Xeon desktop.
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Thanks stimp.... I mainly work with Maya, so didn't really know that about 3ds Max. Good information to have.
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The HP nc8430 (15.4") and nx9420 (17.0") are worth looking at. Dell's Latitude D820 series is another option, but doesn't have as good of 3D performance as the HPs.
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Re: 3d modelling an Photoshop work laptop
well i live in bulgaria
the market here is much more different than europe even
and i plant to ask somebody to buy me a notebook from inerenet (i have no options to to do this by myself)
unfortunately here the models that you can buy are old (the newes ones are from january) and infact there is no such thing as discounted models whitch means that i can buy 1.66gh with 512 ram for at least same price witch i can find on the net 2.00gh with 1gb ram
stimp1000 you definitely right abot 3DS MAX (now am with 2 gb ram desktop computer and for some scenes i can even begin to render without the max fix for 3 gb) but ram is easily upgradable
the only think that i'm worry about thinkpads is their 3d performance
the best thinkpad i can find here is with 128MB ATI Mobility Radeon x1400 (thinkpad r60) and 64MB ATI Mobility Radeon x1300 (thinkpad t60) which is not so dood
and i can't find any user coments about them (i find reviews some kind unprofitable)
the thing about toshibas - some colegues work with older models with 3DS MAX and ARCHITECTURAL DESKTOP (which i don't use) and thay have no complains
zadilo i've always dreamed to have some boxx machine (alienwire desin is quite ugly for laptop i think) but it's a lot of money - maybe next one
chaz i'll take a look at HPs
thanks
the search is still on