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Originally Posted by jmvdesign
Anyone recommend a good laptop for 3D rendering/modeling/animation? Looking for:
- budget between 800$ and 1300$
- 13"-15"
- Good graphics card with 8GB memory
- 1080p resolution
- minimum 9 to 12 cell battery
- Primarily used for 3Ds Max, Adobe Creative Suite (lllustrator/Bridge/Indesign/Photoshop)
- Photo/video editing
- Storage capacity doesn't matter
- Planning to keep it for the next 5 years
- Must be slim, light, and portable
- Looked at Dell XPS 15, Asus Zenbooks, and Lenovo W520 Thinkpad so far. Not interested in Apple.
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Do not get a laptop. I purchased an ASUS gaming laptop for $1800, to use with very similar programs (working in architecture). The laptop died in less than 6 months. If you want to model/ render you NEED a desktop with hyper-threading and discrete graphics.