I have put off buying a new computer/laptop for some years, but now must do so. What requirements should I look for in desktop or laptop? Laptop would be preferable, but price may dictate a desktop. But if a desktop, I would still like a fairly portable one. Any thoughts?

I’m not sure how quickly you need to buy your new PC - though it’s looking more and more like a few months wait might be worth the wait. Nvidia just announced ‘RTX’ - which will allow real-time raytracing in it’s next generation of cards. It looks like some kind of crazy voo-doo if you google some…

Has anyone had experience with the new i7-8809G with Radeon RX Vega M graphics?

Unless you are rendering, any modern laptop is going to run it no problem. You will basically hit a level where it makes no difference with the specs unless you are running an engineering or high powered gaming laptop and can really push the polycount. Otherwise, anything in the £500-2000 range is …

[image] arthurinnox: Has anyone had experience with the new i7-8809G with Radeon RX Vega M graphics? The specs seem a bit lackluster, especially if any rendering is in the works. Beats my ultrabook, though. If I have a choice, I still wouldn’t touch anything with AMD or Intel graphics.

Depends on what you are using to render (software), what type or rendering you are doing (animation, clay models, volumetric etc) and at what size etc (print, 4k, 8k). I’ve got two laptops (one mid range and one high range) but I would not do commercial rendering on either, just proofing. My deskt…

At present I rarely do full-scale rendering, mostly because it is so slow and my clients do not really want realistic renderings. In fact I far prefer to print them out in black and white and hand render them. On the other hand, if I had a really good machine, I would be inclined to use a full-fled…

[image] arthurinnox: I don’t want to throw away good money. Something that I can expand on will be fine. That would suggest you should get a desktop as you will struggle to meaningfully upgrade a laptop unless you invert heavily in one with changeable RAM/GPU and they are rare. Perhaps look …

[image] liamk887: Perhaps look at getting a PC workstation for the office and a chromebook for home to write with and use light models. I don’t think Chromebooks can run SketchUp Pro, only the free (online only) version. Thus no work related models can be (in terms of licensing) run on the C…

Maybe not then, but any laptop 500 pounds or over will be fine running the desktop version, more so if you are not rendering.

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