I’m about to be employed and my new boss is wondering what kind of laptop I’d need to do my interior design work. I’d only really need to be using SketchUp and V-Ray. He’s suggested; 16" WS-M IC-T i9-13900HX RTX4060 16” 2560x1600 100% SRGB Intel® Core™ i9-13900HX 24 Cores & 32 Threads GeForce RT…

[image] joseph3: Is something like this suitable? Or is there anything with the same budget that would outperform it? What is the budget?

[image] joseph3: Is something like this suitable? Sounds very good, with even some future-proofing included.

It’s ok but I’d prefer a laptop with an i7 or i5 and a more powerful gpu, i9 is overkill, sketchup uses just 1core and for rendering, the 4060 is faster than the i9, if you find a laptop or if you can configure it with an i7 and a 4070 or 4080, you’ll have more performance than with the i9 and 4060,…

You’ll be fine as Vray can use hybrid CPU and GPU rendering.

If you’re rendering often or for longer periods then get a laptop with really good cooling and check the actual benchmark performance in games, since many laptops with high specs get so hot they go into heat-management mode, and then run slower…

AK_SAM is 100% correct that thermal performance matters when it comes to rendering and other heat intensive apps. I find that the best way to check that sort of thing is to check the benchmarks each model can get with a high end game, just like he suggested. Most popular games will be tested on diff…

We get so many “is this laptop good enough” requests. …and hear frustrations by users (some of whom have upgraded unnecessarily to latest GPUs etc). Common understanding of hardware specifications seems to be falling in recent years as more people (and marketing) focuses on mobile devices etc. Th…

You are of course 100% correct that the specs are a little vague and I agree that we should better quantify the requirements for SketchUp on our site @AK_SAM . I also wish we were allowed to make recommendations on hardware as PC building and tinkering with existing PCs has been a hobby of mine for a…

I realize SU cannot and should not recommend a specific product. Why not provide benchmarking of various combinations of hardware using Intel, AMD and Apple processors? This would also include several GPU combinations. This should help clear the air for those who are clueless about hardware. This d…

[image] RLGL: This should help clear the air for those who are clueless about hardware. This does not have to be a complete guide but rather using some of the later products currently on the market SketchUp would have to update this at least twice a year to stay a bit up to date… Seams like …

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tweenulzeven December 21, 2023, 10:56pm 14

You mean something like this?

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