BOXX Laptops

[glorybound]

I had 10 machines once and it was a pain and I told myself never again. Dropped buckets, buckets getting stuck.... My question was simple... What's a good laptop?

[dean_dmoo]

Actually your initial post is quite contradictory,

1st statement: You are having bottlenecks with having to wait for renders
2nd statement: You are looking for a backup machine to continue working
3rd: statement: BOXX is expensive and the renderpro performance is disappointing.

Question; Are BOXX laptops worth it?

Everything from the 1st 3 statements leads to the anwser; get a good rendernode. You've already answered your initial question with statement 3. And follow that up with a confirmation referencing "puffing". And finally ask about alienware.

Nothing in your follow-up posts reference wanting to work mobile or away from your office. You actually post having the laptop on your sidedesk. So not a single argument to go for a laptop based on the reasons you gave.

I'm not trying to have a go Bobby, as I like most of your posts and effort to post your work. But logically responding to your initial question led me to my previous post. :wink smily:

[glorybound]

I have no intentions of buying another workstation until this one dies out. If the RenderPro2 was pulling its $4500 weight, I would stack them up in the corner of my office, where this one lives, but it isn't adding much help at all. My main objective is to have something that I can do some light modeling and building of materials while my main workstation is rendering, which is usually an hour or so for my typical scene. Plus, if my main one were to go down for any reason, for repair, I would have something to work on in the interim. The last thing I want is to become an IT manager for a small render farm. I am rendering faster on my single machine than I did on the small farm I had, without the maintenance and babysitting. I posted links to three laptops, and I was just wondering if there is the best laptop people are using. I have read of people using laptops to render scenes from start to finish, so I know they have gotten pretty good over the years. I just added the BOXX laptop to the mix to see what people had to say about it.

[JuhaHo]

I had 10 machines once and it was a pain and I told myself never again. Dropped buckets, buckets getting stuck.... My question was simple... What's a good laptop?

I purchased HP ZBook 17G5 this summer. Price was nearly 5 000 € incl. taxes. So far it looks good. It's a bit faster than my three year old single processor HP-Z640 workstation. I use my old workstations as render farm having six of them.

Edit. My old laptop was nearly eight years old HP EliteBook. It started to have overheating problems, so I didn't let it render alone. It's still good as long as I don't render with it.

[joconnell]

Boxx have amazing warranties but since I'll be paying for it myself and want it to be portable, I'll be buying one of these - they did a collab with intel to get the best thermals possible and it's less than 2kg which suits me for moving around - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EyamB_GxKU

[glorybound]

Boxx have amazing warranties but since I'll be paying for it myself and want it to be portable, I'll be buying one of these - they did a collab with intel to get the best thermals possible and it's less than 2kg which suits me for moving around - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EyamB_GxKU

Warranty is important. My Dell, they replaced the motherboard twice, some RAM a couple of times and the hard drive once. The warranty expires April of 2020.

[glorybound]

I purchased HP ZBook 17G5 this summer. Price was nearly 5 000 € incl. taxes. So far it looks good. It's a bit faster than my three year old single processor HP-Z640 workstation. I use my old workstations as render farm having six of them.

Edit. My old laptop was nearly eight years old HP EliteBook. It started to have overheating problems, so I didn't let it render alone. It's still good as long as I don't render with it.

Yes, $5000 seems to be the number for a laptop that is capable.

https://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/hp-zb...-8fp67ut-aba-1

[glorybound]

Boxx have amazing warranties but since I'll be paying for it myself and want it to be portable, I'll be buying one of these - they did a collab with intel to get the best thermals possible and it's less than 2kg which suits me for moving around - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EyamB_GxKU

Only 16 Gb of RAM, you might be limited there.

[super gnu]

Only 16 Gb of RAM, you might be limited there.

it goes up to 64 gb in the customisation.. its a very interesting and not badly priced laptop, i must say! these big "mobile workstation" ones leave me cold (i saw a review of the mobile i9 processor where intel said they were for "musclebooks" which is both the worst name ever invented for an object, and strangely appropriate for these big 17 inch behemoths) , but a nice slim and light one you can slip in your bag, with decent performance to do some work on the go.. me likey

[joconnell]

Yep, I'll be getting one of those and doing a 3900x / 2080ti build in a dan a4 case - I'm portable rather than studio based at this stage but don't want to compromise on power.

[super gnu]

Yep, I'll be getting one of those and doing a 3900x / 2080ti build in a dan a4 case - I'm portable rather than studio based at this stage but don't want to compromise on power.

Im planning a new build with the new threadripper whenever it shows up, and thinking abount the cerberus x case.. Not as small as the dan a4 but really damn small for a case that can fit a full size motherboard and components in. A handle on the top means i can move it around if needed.