is it ok to buy a notebook for 3d animation....??

[terry18]

i want to buy a notebook for 3d animation....??

i am a beginner is it ok to buy a notebook to build 3d...??
i have a desktop pc to do my rendering.

the config. is...

cpu- 1.8 p4
ram- 768
display- ati radeon 7500 32mb
hd- 30GB

thanks

[細路祥]

現在的Notebook巳經可以完全勝任3D工作，比我家裡的電腦還要快。

一點參考資料：
Dell - Precision M50
P4 1.8GHz / nVidia Quadro4 500 GoGL
$18488
http://www.ap.dell.com/ap/hk/en/bsd/pro ... cn_m50.htm

IBM - ThinkPad A31p
P4 2GHz / 64MB ATI Mobility FireGL 7800
HK$26,588.00
http://commerce-29.www.ibm.com/cgi-bin/ ... crfnbr=104

Compaq - 2822TC
P4 2GHz / ATI Mobility? Radeon? 7500 64MB
$17388
http://www.compaq.com.hk/onlinestore/

[noomo]

細路祥兄所舉的當然好野啦，不過就好貴最少要二萬五過外。如果想揀萬七、八元的P4機都可以勉強勝任，不過要揀GForce440 32m以上的Display 先好。Dell 最近出o左部用 ATI Mobile 9000的 Notebook ，個 Config 都唔錯過。比我揀用來做Animation的話，我會用Gforce多過用ATI。

現在我都是用緊一部 Toshiba P4 2.2G 512M Gforce440 32M 來做 Animation，用來跑 LightWave 還可以。不知跑其他的軟件如何。

[細路祥]

noomo兄，您一定是看漏了眼喔！我是有寫價錢的。

[noomo]

抱歉，真的老眼昏花，看漏了。多謝你的資料。

[3d mask]

Thanks for share the information.
and noomo, could you tell me why you prefer Gforce for notebook? Thx!

[noomo]

The reason why I choose Gforce rather than ATI7500 is according to the report of Tom's Hardware Guide
http://www.tomshardware.com/mobile/02q2/020408/

In general, ATI Mobility7500 is better than GeForce2Go , however Geforce4Go is better than ATI 7500 in average performance and it is a bit faster than ATI8000.

The other reason is I'm LightWave user, I used Geforce2 to make animation on my desktop PC, It work well and stable. So when I move my work station to notebook I make GeForce my first choose.However Geforce4 only available on Toshiba and Dell.

[3d mask]

thx noomo! thx for that report!

[antony lau]

i what to ask ask..
why no ppl talk about Apple PowerBook??
http://store.apple.com/800-908-988/WebObjects/hongkongstore.woa/846/wo/L4KOK1er3dmLHFT4Lj/0.3.0.3.27.33.0.1.3.1.3.1.1.0?134,81
also about HK$ 18,500- HK$ 23,900
1GHz PowerPC G4+1MB L3 & 256K L2 cache+ATI Mobility Radeon 9000w/64 MB DDR video memory

[細路祥]

PowerBook G4 + Mac OS X + Lightwave 3D 的確是不錯的選擇。

[Cyber Oxygen]

日本sony vaio有個package包lightwave
不錯的~

[choppy]

咁如果跑 max 呢???

我聽人講過....用notebook做modeling都可以,講到用尼animation同rendering好似唔系咁好!!

我自己都想買...但系念到如果家用,不如用喱筆錢買pc會更好,因為系街或公司都唔會點用到.大家買notebook做3d系為左????

[noomo]

用notebook來做animation 有好處o架，例如我晚上做Setting。第二朝帶架Notebook 返公司一邊 render 一邊做野（我正職並非animator）。你知啦，有時要改小小就又要 render 一次。

另外又可以拿部notebook 去 present，我用o左部 notebook 做3D已兩個月，效率提升不小。

[choppy]

我又冇念個喱倘point喎~~~真系唔錯!!

不過唔知我boss會點,如果拎notebook返公司私用!!

有冇睇過fujisu一部notebook workstation??好似系新機!!

[noomo]

我賣部notebook之前都做過下study（話曬大那那成萬幾蚊），以3D和多媒體來說，Dell 和 Toshiba 既 config 都幾好，而Fujitsu 比較弱，因它主要針對商貿用家。總體來說，能跑3D的Notebook，除了以上細路祥兄所列的top model外，中價一些的主要看佢既 Graphic chipset，不外乎兩只。一是 Geforce4Go 440（好似就出460），另一個是ATI7500，最新出的是ATI9000，性能上不比7500快得幾多，主要是support directx8，目前只有Dell 有出機。另外一般都只配32m Ram，少數有64m的，大部份都是 All in one。當中Dell系最多選擇的一間。