ela546
April 24, 2020, 3:22pm
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Hello ive been meaning to get a new laptop, a lighter laptop, because the one i have now, and Acer Nitro, is too heavy to carry around.
Sketchup & enscape works fine with it but i just rly need a lighter laptop. am wondering if you guys have any suggestions?
Im looking at
ASUS ZenBook Edition 30 UX334FL-A4021T 13.3" Full HD 1920x1080 IPS Display i7-8565U (1.8 GHz Turbo up to 4.6 GHz) 16GB LPDDR3 1TB PCIEG3x4 NVME M.2 SSD NVIDIA® GeForce® MX250 2GB GDDR5
or
surface laptop 3 "15 - 16GB DDR4 RAM , AMD Ryzen™ 7 3780U Mobile Processor with Radeon™ RX Vega 11 Graphics Microsoft Surface® Edition , Removable solid-state drive (SSD)6 512GB ,
Zoom_1
April 27, 2020, 11:52pm
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The graphics cards of those laptops are very low end, as is usually the case with thin and light laptops. I am not sure if they meet the minimum specs required for Enscape, but they are well below the recommended specs. Personally I wouldn’t suggest any of those laptops for 3d rendering, unless you are doing some very very basic models.
What are the specs of your current laptop?
rifkin
April 28, 2020, 2:35am
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Lenovo P1 (4lbs) with Quadro T2000 is the minimum I would recommend for Enscape
https://www.provantage.com/lenovo-20qt0011us~7LENOEUE.htm
Gaming laptops will generally be cheaper than the Lenovo with more performance. (You pay for the Quadro and workstation quality.)
If you want a 13" the Razer Blade Stealth is probably the only option - GTX 1650 or 1650 Ti
https://www.razer.com/gaming-laptops/razer-blade-stealth/shop#geforce-gtx1650ti–fhd120-10thgen-i7–512gb-black
Otherwise there are a bunch of 15" options around 5lbs - I’d look at something with a 2060 or 2070/2080 Max-Q to get the potential benefits of RTX as that gets more support.
ela546
April 28, 2020, 12:26pm
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thank you so much! helpful! as ive been meaning to change to a lighter laptop,
ela546
April 28, 2020, 12:29pm
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if im not mistaken, this is my current laptop’s specs:
Acer Nitro 5 AN515-52-74DR (Aspire Nitro 5 AN515 Series )
Processor Intel Core i7-8750H (Intel Core i7 )
Graphics adapter NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile - 4096 MB, Core: 1493 MHz, Memory: 7000 MHz, GDDR5, ForceWare 388.73, Optimus
Memory
, 2x 8 GB SO-DIMM DDR4-2666, dual channel, each slot it occupied, 32 GB max.
Display
Mainboard
Storage
, PCIe slots: 1x M.2
Weight
Zoom_1
April 30, 2020, 1:58pm
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Your current laptop isn’t a powerhouse, but the two laptops you are considering will be a significant downgrade in terms of performance compared to what you have now.
I’m using 13" HP Envy laptop which is a very light laptop
i5 7th gen CPU, Geforce Mx150 video card
I do my sketchup and just started using Enscape on it also
For enscape - Get one with an Nvidia RTX compatible card and as much VRAM as you can get.
