Jonny English Posted February 2, 2005 Share Posted February 2, 2005 Does anyone know if laptops are worthy workstations for 3D? The ones that spring to mind are the Dell M60 and the new M70. I would appreciate some advice. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lambros Posted February 2, 2005 Share Posted February 2, 2005 I bought myself an ACER Athlon64 3.4+ , with 512MBRAM, 60 GB HD, and a GFORCE 5700 graphics card. It really needs a memory upgrade, but it runs smoothly and I can work on it when on a trip. The athlon processor is extremely fast in renders and the gforce is quite good and slows down only on large models. Getting a dell with a quadro is certainly going to work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdarcy Posted February 2, 2005 Share Posted February 2, 2005 Hi Jonny, I use a :- Toshiba satellite pro M30-P-M 745 1.8 GHz Windows XP Pro 2gb ram 60 gb hard drive Dvd super drive 15" wide screen nVID/802.11bg graphics card. This machine runs viz 4 and v-ray with no problems and has never crashed actually doing a render. I think i would have preferred the dell m60 at the time but my office had the final call due to service agreements etc. The Toshiba has performed well with no problems so it was a good alternative. TD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3dp Posted February 2, 2005 Share Posted February 2, 2005 i've been running a dell m60 for around a year 1.7 centrino 1 gig ram (2gig better) and go fx700 bomb proof handles 3dmax (don't really use it for renders but it works) no probs photoshop when i use a external scratch disc and autocad and rocks on doom3 and postal2 and nfsu2 and srs just now as i'm doing two jobs i'm tending to use this all the time in place of my main workstation at home i have in a docking station which gives a little ore usb power and hooks in the phone via infrared bluetooth or cable only downside primary battery died after six months plus points big screen speakers not too shabby and soild build quality (swop with other dell d series for drives batteries etc minus not cheap although they are now coming ebay etc a second hand if thats your game and competitors new fujitsu seimens unit whose name escapes and l-systems who have got refinaced (hurrah) all the rumors are true it is a workstation in a laptop i went the extra mile and went with a zero halliburton case for the true 3d guru on the move look and to protect the investment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonny English Posted February 2, 2005 Author Share Posted February 2, 2005 So do you think an M60 or M70 could be a full time Max workstation for architectural visuals??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3dp Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 yep works for me as i say i quite often these days will work onsite with a client and i drag a laptop in and work there as it gets me out of the house and take a shower!! i have max, desktop, photoshop, premiere, alias studiotools all running happy only thing that is slow is rendering as it's not a dual cpu but then i don't tend to render on it just do the donkey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonny English Posted February 3, 2005 Author Share Posted February 3, 2005 Thank you all for your advice, much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anvaraziz Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 http://www.rockdirect.com/notebooks/xtremeti_cons.htm did u seen this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Moir Posted March 3, 2005 Share Posted March 3, 2005 I bought a Dell M50 for home over a year ago and it has been bomb proof- I love it. I use a Dell workstation at work which I can't say I'm a big fan of, but the laptop is superb. If the latest Dells are as good as my older model, go for it. Kind Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DennisHolland Posted March 3, 2005 Share Posted March 3, 2005 Hi, just ran into this one... Alienware Area 51M-7700 Enjoy, Dennis _________________________________ Dennis de Priester Interactive Media the Netherlands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
animart Posted March 3, 2005 Share Posted March 3, 2005 the m70 can do the work for shure but have in mind that is a laptop and for that the dd is a litle slow the procesor is not so fast like a p4 or xeon and ram is a litle more expensive and of course lcd is only 15" but thanks good it comes whit the quadro 1400 who mekes the life esy modeling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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