Laptop

Is there anyone with laptop which has integrated GFX (like Intel HD Graphics 4000) (and CPU like i5 3rd or up generation + at least 4gb ram) ? How much Rhino can it handle ? Do you find it being some kind of bottleneck when working on a daily basis ?

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Permalink Reply by Hannes Löschke on January 16, 2014 at 2:19pm

I have both Intel HD4000 and a dedicated GT750M. I didn't thoroughly test for speed between them but from my experience the CPU is more of a bottleneck to Rhino graphics. Rhino FAQ clearly states to stay away from Intel HD's, hence the dedicated GeForce. Don't know if this still holds in general.

I have i7 dual core and find it okay to work with. My models aren't too complex though.

4gigs should be the barest minimum if you want to make any use of 64bit... my Task manger shows 5 to 7 used up on a normal day.

Permalink Reply by Mateusz Zwierzycki on January 16, 2014 at 2:31pm

Thanks. I'm aiming at 8gb with an expansion possibility (I wrote 4 just to show that that's not the searching criteria).

BTW. It's so hard to find reasonably priced full hd 15" laptop.

Permalink Reply by Nick on January 17, 2014 at 9:10am

Personally, unless you absolutely have to, I'd stay away from laptops in general for any high processing power demanding applications.

I have an HP DV6 2.26GHz Intel Core i3-350M. It has the dual video card (onboard HD4000 and Radeon HD 5650) and 8GB ram. Although it can handle most high processing power demanding applications like rhino/GH, and others like adobe suite, I find it to start lagging after only a few minutes of usage. Not so much because of lack of memory or processing power, but rather inappropriate cooling system... I has happen to shutdown on me due to overheating a couple of times since I've had it. Further proof, I change the thermal paste on a monthly basis...

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on January 17, 2014 at 9:33am

Nick, Do you have all your Latest Activity settings un-ticked? I never seem to notice your posts.

Permalink Reply by Mateusz Zwierzycki on January 17, 2014 at 10:04am

How will you know he reads this one ?

Permalink Reply by Nick on January 17, 2014 at 10:20am

Telepathy? :D

Danny, yes, my latest activities were all checked off. I've corrected it for your enjoyment. :P

Permalink Reply by to] on January 17, 2014 at 9:33am

Hi Mateusz,

i can highly recommend you the laptops from Dell (Precession line) or Lenovo which offer up to 32Gb of RAM. So make sure you start with 2x8 GB so you can easily upgrade. A SSD would be also a high speed improvement.

Permalink Reply by Thibault Schwartz on January 17, 2014 at 9:57am

If you consider laptops as something to be changed every 3 years like me: go for the Asus N550J series. i7 @2.4Ghz + 16Go RAM + nice screen + 7200RPM disk. 15 or 17", and a nice design. 1000-1300€.

Permalink Reply by Mateusz Zwierzycki on January 17, 2014 at 10:10am

Thank you guys for your responses, this really helps a lot. I think it may be also a good information that I have 2yo samsung np300-v5a (i5+8gb+520mx gfx), and I find it perfecly fitting my computing needs... the problem which I want to solve by getting a new one is the screen (I have 1366x768 which is so painful to use with gh+rhino, also all toolbars in programs like ps take 1/3 of the screen...and yes, I managed to minimize them as much as I could with win7 settings and all), and also it would be nice (but not necessary) to get the new one lighter/thinner (I walk a lot with it, and after whole day I would really want it to be .5-1 kg lighter).

Permalink Reply by Thibault Schwartz on January 17, 2014 at 10:17am

It's actually why I changed to the series I was speaking above: I have a 15" with a 1920*1080 resolution and I can finally have my toolbars like I want. It's 2.6Kg, so quite acceptable.

Permalink Reply by Piotr on January 17, 2014 at 10:45am

Hi Mateusz

I have monster Dell M6400 Covet laptop (designed and built for engineers) which I bought from second hand 3-4 years ago and it still beats and bites lots of modern laptops.

It is heavy, but slim and beautiful (orange anodized skin) equipped with quad core, 8-32GB RAM, NVIDIA Quaddro and 1920x1200px fantastic display.

Originally priced about 7kUSD today is available for about 1k or less. It can handle really complex models and graphics. I am so pleased using it that I don't expect to change it for the next 3-5 years.

Downsides: a brick-size charger and only 1h mode on battery (it really use a full CPU speed on battery).

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