On 23/12/2013 3:13 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 00:12:46 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>
>
> The thing for Blender is if you use the Cycles rendering engine, you'll
> want an nVidia higher-end GPU, which will add to the cost.

I don't I use the internal renderer. Then Export a mesh and render in 
PovRay. So I think that I will get away without worrying about that. I 
hope. :-)


>
> What I currently use as a laptop is what I bought 2 years ago - a Dell
> N7110 laptop.  8 GB of memory, i7 CPU, integrated Intel graphics.  Gets
> the job done, and is even better than the newer desktop I have (8 cores
> rather than 4).  But it does weigh like a laptop, too.
>

For Dell read Toshiba and that is me.
The machine needs a spring clean possibly a re-install of all my 
applications and a clean up of the services and processes I do not use.
Sigh!

>>> I understand the Acer ultrabooks are pretty good, though.
>>
>> Thanks, I'll have a look at them. It will be a good place to start. I
>> had an Acer laptop the one before last. It might have been the one
>> before that, even. It gave good service and I had no trouble with it.
>
> That's always a promising start. :)
>

I hope so.

-- 
Regards
     Stephen

Post a reply to this message