Laptops

[AlexP]

Anyone working successfully on a laptop when away from the office?
What are you using if so?

Render power not needed, although a bit of GPU power would be good. Laptop GPUs seem to be terrible though..

Thinking about the Surface Pro, anyone have any experiences with it?

[vlado]

I have a ThinkPad W530 and it's been working fairly well. It has a mobile Quadro K2000M and it performs decently.

Best regards,
Vlado

[pixelplume]

I have been using a Dell M4700 as my main workstation (augmented by 3 other machines for rendering) for over 2 years......i7-3940xm, 32 GB ram, 512 ssd, docking station, and a Quadro K2000m It's been great. I have been buying used Dell workstations for years on ebay. Solid machines...only 1 power supply failure and one hard drive failure in the last 10 years.....maybe I just jinxed myself

[crazy homeless guy]

I'm not in the market right now but if I were I would probably pick one of these up.... The are nice looking machines, which I admit is important to me. Very reminiscent of the 2011-2013? MacBook Pro's.
http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-systems/razer-blade-pro

Or if you need something slightly smaller..
http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-syst...-blade-stealth

[AlexP]

Thanks had not looked at any of these yet.

Im super wary of buying old Dell laptops, have been through a few in our time in the office, they always had some sort of hardware failure shortly after warranty expired. Amazed you have had such good usage out of them. Maybe I dont look after them enough!

Like the look of those thin Razer ones, but I guess the thinner and smaller it is, the less power.

I do ideally want to go for something smaller so I can move around the house and it's not liable to be in the way constantly.

[joconnell]

Dell xps 15 has been great for me. I won't buy their workstations as I don't think the quadros are ever worth it, the xps machines have decent geforce cards, go up to 32 gigs of ram and they've lovely screens. Plus they're light!

[Syclone1]

Ive been using an MSI GS70 since earlier this year and am very happy with it and Ive been using it alot for modeling. minor rendering and photo and video editing and it uses an SSD with 3 mSATA ports so you can have plenty of high speed storage and in a RAID if you like. right out of the box I dropped in a Samsung 1TB SSD and populated all the mSATA ports with 500gb chips. Here is a link, there are newer ones now. https://www.msi.com/Laptop/gs70-2qe-...#hero-overview

-dave

[Raven]

Hey Alex

I use a Fujitsu Celsius H730, i7-4910MQ, 32GB Ram, Quadro K2100M. Very happy with how it's worked for me the last 2 years. Had a Celsius H270 for 6 years befor that.
They now have the H760 which can spec pretty high. Xeon processors, 64GB Ram, Quadro M2000M

[AlexP]

Thanks will check these out.

[glorybound]

That bright orange text on a black background makes the site virtually useless too me. I can't read anything. Maybe it's just these old eyes.

Ive been using an MSI GS70 since earlier this year and am very happy with it and Ive been using it alot for modeling. minor rendering and photo and video editing and it uses an SSD with 3 mSATA ports so you can have plenty of high speed storage and in a RAID if you like. right out of the box I dropped in a Samsung 1TB SSD and populated all the mSATA ports with 500gb chips. Here is a link, there are newer ones now. https://www.msi.com/Laptop/gs70-2qe-...#hero-overview

-dave

[leotchest]

i have an Alienware 17R2 with an i7-4980HQ CPU & a GTX 980M. I've found it to be great for working on in 3dsmax and also for rendering while away from my desk (i.e. holidays when i have no choice but to do some work !) it was pricey though - got it with a no-interest dell loan.