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Laptop for Rendering

Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 3:25 pm
by kwaynej
Hello, First I want to say I am new to rendering.
I started working for new company. Company uses twilight for rendering. Currently takes about 3 days to rendering a 125MB. I want to purchase few laptops that can reduce from 3 days to couple hour's. These are the following specs I have come up with. Are these good specs for twilight, I know it's 32bit software. I really appreciate suggestion's

HP ZBook 15 Mobile Workstation Quad Core, Windows 7 Pro 64bit
Intel Core i7-4800MQ Quad Core
NVIDIA Quadro K2100M with 2 GB dedicated GDDR5 video memory
16GB 1600MHz DDR3L 2DM
128GB SATA-3 Solid State Drive

software that will be installed on this Machine are
Twilight
SketchUP
AutoCAD 2014
Photoshop.

Re: Laptop for Rendering

Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 10:15 pm
by Fletch
presuming you have an additional storage drive, specs look good.
be sure cooling is accounted for, laptops can get hot while rendering.

Re: Laptop for Rendering

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2014 3:56 pm
by kwaynej
Thanks for the reference. From reading the reference, Twilight relies on the CPU, more core = more threads. for workstation with Xeon processor with 8 cores is even better.