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Hiiii guys, hope everyone is doing great!
so to my problem. Ive just moved to Berlin where im going to study Game art and Animation at Games Academy. Firstly, im from sweden, a country where i find that the most PC parts are rather cheap. And also laptops.
Now to my problem, the laptops here are expensive!!
And i can only afford about 1200 euro, which is about 15-1600 usd i think.
Any tips on good workstation/gaming station i should go for, oh cant do questionmark on this MAC. So every question will probebly lead to confusion.
1. Need a laptop 1200 euro /1600 usd
2. gaming/workstation
3. Anything else i should think off, please do tell me!
for ps, maya, 3ds max, xnormal, steamgames etc etc
so to my problem. Ive just moved to Berlin where im going to study Game art and Animation at Games Academy. Firstly, im from sweden, a country where i find that the most PC parts are rather cheap. And also laptops.
Now to my problem, the laptops here are expensive!!
And i can only afford about 1200 euro, which is about 15-1600 usd i think.
Any tips on good workstation/gaming station i should go for, oh cant do questionmark on this MAC. So every question will probebly lead to confusion.
1. Need a laptop 1200 euro /1600 usd
2. gaming/workstation
3. Anything else i should think off, please do tell me!
for ps, maya, 3ds max, xnormal, steamgames etc etc
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quoted for agreement. If you manage to build your own PC it shouldn't be very expensive. I never felt that Germany was very expensive for building PCs. However buying brand PCs (e.g. Dell, HP) seems to be more expensive there than in other countries.
PS. Zbrush 14 mil polys with no lag
P.S. 50 million polys with no lag
For a proper workstation, if you're going to do all of your work sitting at a desk, then get a PC. If you need something to do some work out and about every once in a while, get a tablet or a low spec 13" laptop and a good desktop workstation for real work.
If you need to do 3d art in various places, like in your dorm, out with friends, and in the classroom, there is no substitution for a good laptop. So really, I would look hard at where you plan to use it and what % of the time you really need to be mobile.
All of that said, it would really help to know what size laptop, how heavy, how much battery life, and any other features that you want. Laptops vary from like 10 inch low end models, to 19 inch crazy beefcake workstation replacement models, and without knowing what you're after, its not easy to give a recommendation.
Generally, for 3d art you want:
A. Fast cpu, I7 etc
B. Good GPU (this will be expensive, large, heavy, hot, and kill your battery in a laptop - generally)
C. Good quality display with good viewing angles and accurate color reproduction
D. A decent size screen with enough resolution to work comfortably within a 3d app
Depending on exactly what you need to do some components are more important. Doing a lot of work in zbrush and baking high res textures? High end CPU and lots of ram will be very important and GPU will have very little importance.
Building levels in something like UDK? GPU will be just as important as CPU/RAM.
Doing mid/low poly modeling, mobile spec type stuff? Onboard GPUs like Intel 4000/5000 that come with I5/I7 will be plenty, any recent CPU will be plenty.
Asus is good. Thew new Razor looks real nice too.
hopefully i can find some good ones here. as i mentioned in sweden i found a media center with gtx 760, i5-4670, 8 gb ram and with all goodies for 1 000 euro/1000 usd!!
and it weights less then 1 kg and smaller then ive ever imagined!