Lenovo P50 render advise pls!!!!!!!

[demetrisstylianides]

Hi everyone this is my first post. Am a lenovo workstation fan and i want your opinion on a P50 model.

Am going to order the P50 with the basic configuration to do some render not heavy load work. I have a Lenovo thinkstation for heavier scenes. My concern is if the quadro card and the i7 will do the job.

 

Processor : i7-6700HQ

Ram : 16gb

Drive : 256 SSD

Video : Quadro M1000M

 

Has anyone used the thinpad with these specs to run autocad, rhino, keyshot?

 

Thank you all.

[joelmcwilliam]

Autocad isn't demanding. For rhino look on their website: http://wiki.mcneel.com/rhino/rhino5videocards

 

Tech stuff over here: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-P50-Workstation-Review.158713.0.html

 

Hardware components comparison over here: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Benchmarks-Tech.123.0.html

 

Cpu: for modelling look at cinebench single , for rendering look at cinebench multi.

 

Now you have something to back up when choosing hardware.

 

Things to look for: powerfull cpu with high clock speed, lots of ram (16 gb or more), gtx gaming card (970m would be nice), a ssd.

 

Gaming laptops have better cooling. Might be worth looking at. And you might get even powerfull hardware.

 

Are you using very big models?

[demetrisstylianides]

Hi Joel,

really appreciate your post. I have a desktop for heavy rendering, i just need the laptop to work outside the office. i've check also the gaming range from MSI and Gigabyte and other brands but i've finally decided to go with the Lenovo with quadro M1000m. I had a W500 from 2009 now. They are solid workstation machines and i trust them. Maybe its marketing thing to call a laptop gaming or workstation since the only difference in most of them is just the card, Quadro or GTX. So i will stick to the Lenovo finally. Thanks again

[Francisco Penaloza]

Long time ago I used to have an P50 but it was IBM. Very good laptop, even with long renderings, later I bought the Lenovo version, and it as not the same. I felt they put more cheap plastic in some parts and just didn't perform the same.

If you have better luck with them, good for you, really.

For the software you run, that laptop should be fine, maybe a better video card would be better, mostly for Keyshot, but I don't see many options Lenovos website so over all it should be fine for not heavy load.

[joelmcwilliam]

Lenovo is your choice and I guess you are right they were/are solid machines.

 

But I do think that for the price of a machine with a quadro you can get even powerfull hardware by looking at gaming laptops. But both will work fine.