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Anyone have any recomendations for a travel laptop. I have a budget of about $1800.00 (US) and am mainly concerned about battery life and having a reasonable graphics card. Ideally I'd love a toughbook, but doubt i can get what i want for a reasonable price. Anyone know of other supliers of rugged, touchscreen, laptops? -Joe

Steve- The Mac is great for 3D work. It runs MacOS and Windows, takes 2GB of RAM, has dual cores (my 2.17 is as fast as a dual 3.6GHz Xeon), the screen is quite good and the video is 128-256MB ATI x1600, very good in Max in DirectX mode or in Cinema4D. There are Universal Binary MacOSX versions of Cinema4D and Modo so you have your choice of OS if you use one of those, and Cinebench actually renders faster in OSX than Windows.

is it for 3D? wouldn't get a mac if you're doing 3d. if u can stretch your budget, get a dell precision m90, otherwise the cheaper precision. built for 3D.

I agree with Andrew that the MacBook Pro's would be a good machine and would be my first choice for a lappy IBM seems to think they have a robust laptop in the Lenovo Thinkpad but it's lack of configuration options leave a lot to be desired by a 3D guy (as in a decent graphics card and at least 2gb of ram)... remember this ad from a few months back: http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/media/notebooks/thinkpad/rollcage_wmv.html ...nice 3d nonetheless : )

Get a Macbook Pro and a decent case. All the cool people in Manhattan have Macbook Pros now, so they can use them at Starbucks.