apomales Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 Anybody that can help me with this. I am currently looking at purchasing a suped up Alienware laptop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tecton3d Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 If the software is smp enabled, which means it can use either HT technology from Intel or multiple core processors from AMD - get a dual core Athlon X2 system (definitely worth it if you can afford it)! edit: Wow, there is a dual-core Opteron laptop available. Alienware is now trying to sell something other than a flashy case (which is long overdue!)! ... definitely get that if you have the money. Opterons are AMD's most "souped up" chip and are made for tasks like rendering it'll cost an arm and a leg but... the opteron 175! http://alienware.com/Configurator_Pages/mj-12_m7700a_cp.aspx?SysCode=PC-LT-MJ12-M7700A-CP&SubCode=SKU-DEFAULT Next to the processor, every machine that will be rendering should have at least 1gb ram (2gb preferred) and a super video card.. for a laptop 256MB NVidia® Quadro™ FX Go 1400 is a good choice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apomales Posted December 13, 2005 Author Share Posted December 13, 2005 Awesome. Thanks for your help. What do you think about the BOXX 64 BIT system? I am really looking to get a laptop, for work purposes. I have pretty muched narrowed it down to Alienware, BOXX, or DELL XPS. I know I am going to have spend at least $5K to get a top of the line laptop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tecton3d Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 BOXX is the best, hands down! Funny it's come up 'cause I have a 7300 dual opteron humming right here beside me! I looked around for a while and actually thought about building my own desktop before I realized that purchasing a machine from a company that has such a good reputation would be the smarter thing to do. I have been pounding this machine with rendering and multitasking galore and it's rock solid... anyway what I'm getting at is that if you buy a boxx you know they stand behind thier product and give you the best components to make a fast, reliable system. The 64 bit laptop based on the Pentium® 4 Model 670 would be a screaming laptop machine. with your budget you could basically max out everything and have a desktop killer! Personally, I'd set it up with dual hd's - non raid... two 100gb @7200 ~ one for the OS and programs and the other for storage. That's how I have my desktop configured (74gb @10k OS hd and a 250gb @ 7.2k for storage) and it's a nice setup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apomales Posted December 13, 2005 Author Share Posted December 13, 2005 Interesting points. So how does their laptop stack up to an Alienware Laptop? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tecton3d Posted December 14, 2005 Share Posted December 14, 2005 first of all, you have to compare apples to apples... alienware's p4 to boxx p4 etc and here is a great review of that: http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=2932&page=1 as you've read, the BOXX barely edges out the A-ware in most categories but it's such a small amount it's hardly worth mentioning. If you were to compare the A-ware Athlon X2 system to the Boxx p4 system you would notice an enormous difference in tasks that are cpu intensive such as rendering, video compression... etc. If you were going to spend a lot of time doing this type of stuff, then the Opteron 175 or Athlon X2 processors from Alien would be your best pick. Personally, I would check with Boxx to see if they have a dual core laptop in the works and depending on how far from production it is, I'd possibly acquire one of those. E-mail Ed Caracappa (ecaracappa@boxxtech.com) and tell him Daron Pardine sent you. He's thier primary hardware guy and will be able to tell you directly whether or not they have a dc laptop in the works, and if not will probably make you a great offer for what they have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted December 14, 2005 Share Posted December 14, 2005 Those Alienware and Boxx laptops are expensive, very heavy and have really bad battery life. You sure it's what you want? You can probably have a normal laptop, plus an AthlonX2 workstation for your desk, for the same money. Or get the normal laptop or desktop workstation, plus a real 3D package Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apomales Posted December 14, 2005 Author Share Posted December 14, 2005 Right now, money is not the object. I need a powerful machine to bust out renderings and animations quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tecton3d Posted December 14, 2005 Share Posted December 14, 2005 Right now, money is not the object. I need a powerful machine to bust out renderings and animations quickly. Then you should forget about laptops all together and get a dual proc - dual core Opteron 280 workstation on a tyan k8we mobo w/ 2+ gigs of ram. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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