Laptops for Use w/ Octane?

[GeoPappas]

FYI: I did find that Toshiba makes a few laptops that have NVIDIA cards that support CUDA.

For example, here is one:
http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/cde ... ite-_-P500

the 330m should be 48 cuda cores afaik (I checked when the new i7 MacBookPro came out)... 1/10 of a GTX480

Thanks, but I think it would be kind of hard to fit a GTX 480 into a laptop!

[havensole]

Any of the laptop gpus will have a greatly reduced amount of cores. This is why it might be a good idea to pick up one that has enough top play with octane while traveling or whatnot and then add a cubix xpander with the express34 card (make sure the laptop has this slot) to add a gtx400 series card for serious rendering.

[Rhodesy]

The GTX 480m is out with approx 350 cores if i remember rightly! Must get red hot!!

[Scog]

My laptop has a Quadro FX 880M that is good enough for basic use, it is about 1/10th as fast as a GTX480.
Still faster than a traditional CPU render for stills.
The laptop is a Thinkpad W510.

[9fly]

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You can past by to take a look.

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