Choosing a good laptop for rendering process

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Hello,

This is Fares. I’ve been working in arch-viz for 7 years on PC workstations.
But for the reason of going to study abroad (in Barcelona), I’m currently in research of a good laptop for rendering that doesn’t exceed a budget of 2000$.
I had different quotations for many “gaming” laptops, but yet I didn’t know which one to choose (or maybe completely another one).

Any help?
(attached is a document for the laptops options with prices)

Thanks

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  • If you care about comfort go for 17" display and if possible buy extra monitor in the future (cheap used display will do perfectly, you will thank me later).

  • the more powerful CPU the better (no surprise here)

  • I use Quadro K3100M on everyday basis (which is ok, or I should say “was” quite ok back in the day) and it sometimes lacks performance. I suggest you to read threadripper builds topic, you will find tons of useful stuff there. I’m no expert but as far as I’m concerned the general rule of thumb is: more ram means better viewport performance.

  • go for at least 500GB primary SSD (I would go for 1TB if I were you)

  • I think 16Gigs of RAM is definitely not enough so I strongly recommend upgrading this part. I’ve got 32 GB in my laptop and I need more than 16GB most of the times.

  • win 10 Pro (yes) Home (no)

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Thanks a lot!
Bought an ‘hp Omen’ with VERY close specs to which you recommended.
Now is there any specific way to maximize the use of these specs during render (in render setup or power settings)? Thank u.

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Can’t tell much about power settings. Do you have two fans on board? (both for CPU and GPU) even so, efficient cooling pad makes huge difference during rendering, to be honest even cheapest one will make a difference. It may sound obvious but I’ll mention it anyway, no need to use battery when laptop is plugged in :smiley: