I'm kind of looking at a laptop for myself although it's 3 or 4 on the list of potential "big" purchases. For my side I've been looking at having something with a Thunderbolt port as a must to hook up an external GPU if needed. It might be something you want to consider, particularly if you are considering Redshift/other GPU based processing.
Apart from that, it does look good. My wife has a previous gen Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga, which has a stylus and that's quite useful sometimes but the specs are worse. <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On 14 July 2017 at 20:26, Dan Yargici <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.) > > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] > with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >
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