Architecture Grad School Laptop

Laptopforgrad

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Hello,

I need a laptop for school - ill be using vray, rhino, illustrator, photoshop, indesign, 3d Max, maya

I am open to any price.

What should I be looking for and what price can I get it?

Thanks.
 

Maxx_Power

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In your list of programs, Illustrator and Photoshop are CPU/RAM intensive, 3d Max and Maya can use some good GPU (from memory). Not familiar with vray and rhino.

For all of them, you will benefit from a good screen.

So for 15 inches, can you use a Macbook Pro ? It will run windows no problem. It is "architecturally" well designed and the screen is very nice on those.

If not that, then some ASUS laptops have a nice screen, though they are not nearly as nice in design and execution.

You can also consider some Lenovo ThinkPads. The T series for example may be your cup of tea if you want that style of computer. They are as expensive as the Macbook Pros though.