Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Recommend A Laptop for Design (CAD+ rendering)


Macbook Pro
Dell XPS
Sony Viao

any one have opinions?

Prices range from $1K to $4.5K

the extra 3 grand gets you 8gb of ram and .5ghz processor. Doesnt seem worth it.

Opinions welcome and needed!

Tablets ?

6 comments:

  1. I wouldn't really consider the Sony, its not a workstation class computer and everyone that I've know who had one, always had problems.

    If you are wanting to do design work with it, these are basically the 3 big contenders in the workstation class notebook:

    Dell Precision:
    http://www.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/precnnb?c=us&cs=04&l=en&ref=lthp&s=bsd

    MacBook Pro:
    apple.com

    Lenovo ThinkPad:
    http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:expandcategory?current-catalog-id=12F0696583E04D86B9B79B0FEC01C087&current-category-id=8FA114A7D9FF4F38AE8E19B36EC665A7

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  2. Thanks Greg

    any recommendations? Do I splurge and get the most ram?

    What would you get?

    Im going to run: Rhino4, Photoshop, Painter, Hypershot

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  3. I'm not really sure what I would get. Probably stick with the PC(Dell Precision) in this situation because thats what I am most familiar with.

    In all honesty though, I would be looking at a Precision desktop to do any type of work on, and then a smaller notebook, or net book for travel. You can get a more powerful desktop for less $ then a notebook.

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  4. just run windows on mac like me!! leopard comes with bootcamp now so you can run windows at full speed. downside is the price. way overpriced to be cool!

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  5. Agreed. Macbook is very overpriced.

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  6. ended up with: Dell Studio XPS i7 6gb ram
    samsung 2343BWX 23" monitor,small cintiq, and microsoft office. 2200 total

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