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  • Kevin SandersonKevin Sanderson Posts: 1,643
    edited December 1969

    Of course, to spend that on a laptop, you could instead build a real multi-core Xeon workstation and really render quickly. The DAZ Studio version of 3Delight will use all the cores on one computer. Oh the choices when you have money.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,851
    edited December 1969

    ...true, I too always opt for the desktop/deskside solution, However, if you need the portability then the best notebook is your best choice.

  • CbirdCbird Posts: 493
    edited December 1969

    Eurocom is putting big dual xeons into monster laptops, so you can have your cake and eat it too.

    Assuming you are willing to pay for the cake like it's made of gold and faerie dust.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,851
    edited February 2015

    ...well I don't see Dual Xeons but they do allow up to a 12C/24T Xeon CPU. For about 5,500 I can get a 10C/20T 2.5 GHz Xeon with NVidia 880M 8 GB GPU, 32 GB memory, 600GB SSD + 1TB 7,200 rpm HDD. Looks like the Workstations also have flow through cooling which is definitely a plus.

    For that same price however I could build a dual 8C/16T Xeon system (32 threads total) with 128GB memory, (8 x 16 GB) Sapphire R9 290X GPU W/8GB GDDR5, 1TB SSD + 2 TB HDD, and superior cooling, with room to expand to 256GB and change in my pocket.

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  • JonstarkJonstark Posts: 2,738
    edited December 1969

    I thought I read somewhere that the next generation of cpus would be coming out in late 2014 and would be more than twice as fast as the current stuff. Maybe I dreamed it up, but if so, shouldn't this tech start filtering down within a year or two?

    Maybe it's better to hold off and wait a little bit, to see what might be right around the corner? Or maybe I'm way off base :)

    For what it's worth, I paid $1k for my rendering laptop (an Asus), which has an Nvidia Geforce 740m (that 2GB for GPU rendering if needed) and a i7 quad core (hyperthreaded to 8 cores) for the CPU, it came with 8GB of ram, but of course Ram is the one thing on a laptop that it's easy to upgrade, so you might save some $ by purchasing a rig with lower default ram and just replacing the Ram sticks to get more Ram power.

    I've had very good experience with Asus for my last 2 laptops but currently there is a design flaw which I think would have made me not purchase if I had realized it, which is that you can't just pull the battery out like in every other laptop and earlier Asus designs, you actually have to open up/unscrew the chassis to get to the battery.

    I haven't had any problems so far, but I'm sort of dreading if something happens and I need to do a cold restart, because it's going to be a chore to get to that battery and pull it. Really bad design planning, imo, batteries should always be easily ejectable.

  • alexhcowleyalexhcowley Posts: 2,403
    edited December 1969

    Richard Haseltine said:
    alexhcowley said:
    Quick trivia question: how do I convert a Genesis figure into a prop? I have a scene in mind where this would be handy.

    Cheers,

    Alex.

    Edit>Figure>Rigging>Convert Figure to Prop.

    Thanks, Richard. You always seem to know the answer to this kind of question.

    Alex.

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