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22-06-2003
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I assume the point of a laptop is to be portable. Alienware is a beast. If you buy a heavylaptop to stay in one place then might as well buy a much more powerfull desktop. Then again what do I know :-.)
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good battery life is a must for me,
slick, those laptops you listed.. can you ballpark the budget area?
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It's about 5000 Swiss francs. Which is 2900 US dollars. Plus more if you take out better warranty, +gig of ram etc etc. Has a DVD burner as well which is cool.
The Dell M50 is much more expensive......but has the best video card for Maya in a laptop.
You can go to dell.com choose your country> choose the model and then configure one to see how much it will cost.
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I say get a desktop. I am looking at a laptop because I need to maximize my Maya learning time. Then again you might get a descent lappy which will be good enough for generall modelling.
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I havent got Maya up and running yet... but so far everything is looking good, except my bank account
the tv tuner is awesome! I am laying in bed with symplyMaya, My wife and x-files
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How is Maya running, how mcuh RAM, video card................come on :-) Get a move on.
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I got the Toshiba 5205-S705/ P4 2.4 / 512 ram / Nvidia 64meg card
wish I had more ram and video Ram, but it could be a lot worse!
everything is working sweet, except Maya! I am having trouble transferring my license to this machine, Alais charges $150 US for a new key.... I have been on the phone with them all day. ug!
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I'm really happy with the laptop I got from Alienware, all you need is 512Ram in the system and a 128 Video card, with a 2.4 CPU and your ready to do any thing,, and if you contact them and tell them what your looking for,, they workwith you to get you what you want. it Perfect for some one that’s on a budget :thumbsup:Originally posted by R-Tillery
If your still looking for a system here’s a good place to start, I have this one for my business trips and it works grate, never had any problems, you can also have them build it to your need’s it’s really grate. Area-51m
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I configured it the way I would want it,,,gues what 5000US dollars :-(
I will play the lottery this weekend
https://www.dell.com/us/en/gen/topics...ecisionm60.htm
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yay!
didnt wanna post a new thread so i thought i'd dig this one up.
heres the specs.
Its a dell inspiron 8500
Inspiron 8500: Mobile Pentium Processor at 2.4 GHz w/ 15.4" WSXGA+ Display
Memory: 512MB DDR
Video Card: 64MB DDR NVIDIA GeForce 4 4200 Go AGP 4X Graphics
Hard Drives: 30GB Ultra ATA Hard Drive
you have to see the display on this thing, it's unreal!
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then ill buy a laptop...
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Yeah, but no but yeah but no....
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