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waneka
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Hey!
I need some expert advice!
I do: 3D Animation, 3D World building, VFX, Video Editing (shooting 4k but mostly editing FHD), Rendering (Eevee, Cycles, Octane, Arnold, VRay), 3D Modelling and Sculpting.
Background story: I had MacBook Pros for the past 10 years of my life and always loved them. Now that 3D has gotten more serious in my work, last year I decided on switching to Windows. I got a Lenovo Legion Y540, i7-9750H 6-Core, GTX1660Ti, 16GB RAM, FHD IPS matt (144Hz) and was more than underwhelmed by the terrible plastic feel, the missing brilliance I knew from Retina displays and I thought it would be faster and snappier in the Viewport and on complex scenes. Also, the motherboard, speakers and audio interface went down after only 4 weeks of usage and had to be replaced. I leave the OS out of it because, as an Apple User, yes, Windows feels just incredibly impractical. But I knew I needed to give me some time so make the switch.
After 2 months I was done with it and sold it. I went back to Mac. I got a 16inch Macbook Pro 2019, i7 6-Core, AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 8GB, 32GB RAM. I did not realise, that GPU Rendering will not yet be possible with AMD and who knows when it will. This is a huge problem. Apart from this I like it but right now I'm working on quite complex scenes in Blender and C4D and its way slower than I expected. Sometimes I have to sit there and wait. So I am selling it to my Graphic Designer friend.
Sad story, definitely my mistake by not researching enough. But I feel like its not the easiest task searching for the right laptop when you do very complex things and cannot just build your own because you have to focus on mobility.
Now to my question: I was planning on configuring my own laptop with PCSpecialist, but now I nailed it down to two machines that fit my expectations:
Intel i7-10875H, RTX 2070 Super, no matt display and metal or aluminium chassis below 2700 Euros.
Gigabyte Aero 15 and MSI Creator 15 2020, which just came out.
For both I would upgrade to 32GB RAM. The MSI Creator is 200 Euros above the AERO but has a 1TB SSD which I would need to upgrade in the AERO.
I am happy about any advice on the better option. After these failed laptop attempts, losing nerves and money, I want to finally arrive somewhere.
Thanks a lot!
I need some expert advice!
I do: 3D Animation, 3D World building, VFX, Video Editing (shooting 4k but mostly editing FHD), Rendering (Eevee, Cycles, Octane, Arnold, VRay), 3D Modelling and Sculpting.
Background story: I had MacBook Pros for the past 10 years of my life and always loved them. Now that 3D has gotten more serious in my work, last year I decided on switching to Windows. I got a Lenovo Legion Y540, i7-9750H 6-Core, GTX1660Ti, 16GB RAM, FHD IPS matt (144Hz) and was more than underwhelmed by the terrible plastic feel, the missing brilliance I knew from Retina displays and I thought it would be faster and snappier in the Viewport and on complex scenes. Also, the motherboard, speakers and audio interface went down after only 4 weeks of usage and had to be replaced. I leave the OS out of it because, as an Apple User, yes, Windows feels just incredibly impractical. But I knew I needed to give me some time so make the switch.
After 2 months I was done with it and sold it. I went back to Mac. I got a 16inch Macbook Pro 2019, i7 6-Core, AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 8GB, 32GB RAM. I did not realise, that GPU Rendering will not yet be possible with AMD and who knows when it will. This is a huge problem. Apart from this I like it but right now I'm working on quite complex scenes in Blender and C4D and its way slower than I expected. Sometimes I have to sit there and wait. So I am selling it to my Graphic Designer friend.
Sad story, definitely my mistake by not researching enough. But I feel like its not the easiest task searching for the right laptop when you do very complex things and cannot just build your own because you have to focus on mobility.
Now to my question: I was planning on configuring my own laptop with PCSpecialist, but now I nailed it down to two machines that fit my expectations:
Intel i7-10875H, RTX 2070 Super, no matt display and metal or aluminium chassis below 2700 Euros.
Gigabyte Aero 15 and MSI Creator 15 2020, which just came out.
For both I would upgrade to 32GB RAM. The MSI Creator is 200 Euros above the AERO but has a 1TB SSD which I would need to upgrade in the AERO.
I am happy about any advice on the better option. After these failed laptop attempts, losing nerves and money, I want to finally arrive somewhere.
Thanks a lot!