Hello Softimage peoples. I've been waiting for the new HP Envy range of 13inch laptops to arrive since the announcement in May so I can finally replace my current, ancient, (2006 - eeek!) machine.
The new Envy range seemed to have all the boxes ticked for my needs, with modern ports (no Thunderbolt 3 though), dedicated graphics (the new Nvidia MX150 with 2gb of vram), fingerprint reader, webcam in the correct place (looking at you, Dell) etc. However, since it's release I've been told to my amazement that HP have no plans for a 16gb model, only 8gb. Now, the machine will mostly be for casual use, but I may want to occasionally do some noodling in Houdini at home so I just thought I'd do a quick poll here to gauge people's opinions. Obviously the kind of Houdini work I'd be doing would be pretty lightweight geometry experiments and simple sims due to the obvious constraints also thrown up by using a mobile CPU. So what do you think? I'm not going to be able to wait for the inevitable follow up version and like I say it's got pretty much every other box ticked. Aside from the RAM issue, for this price no other machine comes close in the 13inch segment imo. Here are the specs: http://store.hp.com/UKStore/Merch/Product.aspx?id=2GE75EA&opt=ABU&sel=NTB Thanks. Dan. (Also posted to the Houdini list.)
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