Laptop vs Desktop in 2024

[Karolis_M]

Haha I guess you’re right Good quote. I have a similar one that goes along that Appreciate your insights!

[Efetabore]

@James Vella

From what I understand the scene shouldn’t crash, it just swaps the memory to the SSD which is very slow when rendering or calculating light cache etc. Regarding the viewport it uses the GPU so it should not affect the viewport speed. I have never really benchmarked the difference in RAM speed, I don’t really consider it important as long as I have enough of it and its compatible. I was reading on some posts even though it says on the Lenovo website that it 32gb is the max, apparently it can support 64GB (2x 32gb sticks).

The Intel laptop i9 actually support 48gig ram sticks

[Karolis_M]

Heeey Ono,

Thanks. Actually went with the Lenovo Legion 7 2024 (non pro) 14700hx i7, rtx 4060, 32gb. I went with a slimmer device since I don’t know how much rendering I will be doing in the future and wanted a more hybrid machine. After checking the benchmarks on the internet I came to the conclusion that the i9 doesn’t provide a really huge difference in multicore performance, especially in the slimmer model but on the other hand might generate more heat. Same with the gpu - I won’t be actually needing something above a 4060. I might upgrade the ram and ssd in the future though if a need arises. Do you know if the 14700hx also supports dual 48gb ram? Couldn’t find info about that.