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1. buying a laptop, need halp on specs

   

   Topic by Bruno Afonseca · Jan 2008 · Home› Technical Talk

   I need a laptop but i'm on a tight budget, so, i'd like to know if one with the specs below would be able to run the latest versions of max, maya, mudbox, zbrush etc, without significant slowdowns, running on windows vista (working on game related stuff). might downgrade to xp if necessary. 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS…

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   Reply by Bruno Afonseca · Jan 2008 · Home› Technical Talk

   holy crap im convinced, no vista for me but what about the other specs?

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   Reply by Ryan Clark · Jan 2008 · Home› Technical Talk

   I'm sure those specs are fine for any apps you'd want to use. I believe Intel chips have an edge in terms of battery life, though. That may be something to consider if the laptop is for mobile use.

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   Reply by Ryan Clark · Jan 2008 · Home› Technical Talk

   Tom's hardware has some benchmarks looking at 3D application performance in Vista. In general, 3D apps are much slower. Vista is not an OS for workstations. http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/01/29/xp-vs-vista/page6.html

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   Reply by Ryan Clark · Jan 2008 · Home› Technical Talk

   I recommend upgrading to XP if this is a work machine. You'll benefit from the extra performance and RAM.