I'm very happy with my Razer Blade for Softimage ICE and Unreal. A bit noisy when doing something taxing, but the Core EGPU works nicely and is nearly silent itself. .
On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 3:36 PM, Tom Kleinenberg <zagan...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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> > <#m_3767991708672010170_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> > > On 14 July 2017 at 20:26, Dan Yargici <danyarg...@gmail.com> 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 softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com >> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >> > > > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com > with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >
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