Ive been looking for a desktop replacement laptop on many different 3d apps forums over the last few days. And there wasnt much useful info from people as most threads decended into fanboys discussion about i5 vs i7.
To make things easier for me and for you, I would like if you (who have a laptop) can write down the:
Name and number of the laptop.
Video card (ATI or Nvidia)
RAM amount and what kind (DDR3 or DDR2)
CPU (Intel or AMD)
If you use other 3D apps (Maya or 3ds MAX)
What you like and what you dislike about it.
Support issues ? (if any)
(Just try to write down as much as you can/want to,the more the better of course)
This I belive would be most useful for people looking for a Blender laptop. As I can then just look up the different models and make my choice.
Video card (ATI or Nvidia) ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 (256MB)
RAM amount and what kind (DDR3 or DDR2) 4GB DDR3
CPU (Intel or AMD) AMD Turion II Dual Core (2.4Ghz)
If you use other 3D apps (Maya or 3ds MAX) Just Blender 2.56 beta
What you like and what you dislike about it. Like: Well, it rocks, and the webcam is very good. Dislike: It came with Windows 7 pre-installed (SO I fixed it by installing Ubuntu Linux )
Support issues ? (if any) The ATI proprietary drivers don’t play very well with Ubuntu, so I have to use the open-source drivers, but they work fine so no biggy.
You just killed an old myth of mine that ATI is to be avoided like the plague. (I had a very bad experience years ago with ATI.)
So far my eyes have been on DELL or HP, but havnt made me mind up just yet.
RAM amount and what kind (DDR3 or DDR2) 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
CPU (Intel or AMD) Intel Core i7 2.66 GHz
If you use other 3D apps (Maya or 3ds MAX) Blender
What you like and what you dislike about it. What I like: Super stable…faaast…and easy to use…Dislike:I had to get a usb keyboard with numpad for fast use of blender…but even without it…u can change settings in Blender to help.
Video card (ATI or Nvidia) Nvidia GeForce GTX 260M with 1 GB of dedicated memory
RAM amount and what kind (DDR3 or DDR2) 4GB DDR2
CPU (Intel or AMD) Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.0 GHz
If you use other 3D apps (Maya or 3ds MAX) Blender, Aurora
What you like and what you dislike about it. Rivals many desktop PC’s. Blender runs great. It’s cool most of time (even when running heavy applications). Great GLSL support. It can run Crysis (on high settings) at a steady 30 fps all while running on batteries. Downside: it only has a battery life of 1 hour and 20 minutes (at best).
Support issues ? (if any) Sometimes static electricity can cause the PC to “start up by itself”. On average, it happens about once a week (during the dry winter season). It’s not annoying or anything, but…
Name and number of the laptop. Dell Precision M6300
Video card (ATI or Nvidia) Nvidia Quadro FX 1600M
RAM amount and what kind (DDR3 or DDR2) 3.4 GiB DDR2. Video RAM is 512 MB
CPU (Intel or AMD) Intel® Core™2 duo CPU
If you use other 3D apps (Maya or 3ds MAX) Trained in Maya but not on this laptop
What you like and what you dislike about it. Very large laptop, which I like, although the LCD screen is overly-gamma (washed out) and I don’t think the levels in Nvidia settings actually fixes it. Have not been able to get bluetooth to work under Ubuntu on this laptop.
Support issues ? (if any) If Dell find out I’ve installed Ubuntu on it, would invalidate the warrantee.
What you like and what you dislike about it. Likes: Tiny, portable, long battery life Dislikes: Slow SSD, weak cpu. I run Blender 2.56 on ubuntu lucid, and the norman rig actually works at 12 fps!!! This is of course not my main computer, but i did some python scripting on it during the christmas holidays.
collecting this kind of information is indeed a very good idea! i just think this would be better in a list on a wiki (http://wiki.blender.org) or something for those reasons:
searching for a specific model is easier
it won’t get abandoned as easy as a thread here, even if it’s not very up to date.
I never use wiki.blender.org only by “accident” or if im pointed in that direction.
I have this strong feeling that if I asked people to go to wiki.blender.org to type in their details, then most people wouldnt bother. And I want people to bother by making it as simple and easy as possible. In this case by pressing Reply with Quote and type it in rite away. Its also my impression that many different kind of blender users (casual and hardcore) are cruising through here more than at wiki.blender.org which means more people and diversity which = more different laptops i know would run blender.
This list is not made to last that long. Its just to get an snapshot of what laptops people use to run blender these days, so I (and hopefully others in the same situation) can check out laptops that they know can run blender. Otherwise I´d had to go to the shops that have the model im potentially interested in buying and ask for permission to run blender off a usb stick just to check. Im not in a position to do that, cos of the shops around and mostly time.
By setting up these simple questions, I avoid most of all a debate of subjective opinions backed up by technical gibberish that dont help me in looking for the laptop I might want. Just wanna know what people use without a: Hey!!! i dont like Macbook pro cos they are overpriced and they suxxx!. That dont help me or others looking for blender laptops.
But if you want to make a list that you keep updating as new hardware comes out, (which means you will have to keep asking people from time to time to update their details) I think is admirable but I wouldnt have the interest nor time to do that.
Would love it if people did this kinda thread every 6 months or once a year.
Video card (ATI or Nvidia) ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470 512 dedicated memory (i was searching for the one with 5750, but didn’t found it)
RAM amount and what kind (DDR3 or DDR2) 4GB DDR3
CPU (Intel or AMD) Intel i5 450M @2.4GHz
If you use other 3D apps (Maya or 3ds MAX) Blender 2.56, Gimp, Premier (i have installed maya for students, but never used it)
What you like and what you dislike about it. Looooooong battery. If you switch between the dedicated and integrated gpu, you can reach the 8 hours(with 9 cells battery). It has part of the body in metal, so it disspipate quite well. It’s a 14", and 1,8 kg without battery(2,1 with it). I also connect it with 23" lcd with vga and 50" plasma with hdmi and have no problems.I didn’t payed it too much(important thing )
Support issues ? (if any) Worms Armageddon sometimes has bad colors running with the dedicated gpu D: While in my desktop i have never had problems, with the mobility there are some driver issues, but nothing really problematic. OpenCL (read as SLG) is supported. Really satisfied
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