Laptops for Use w/ Octane?

[GeoPappas]

Anyone know of any (brand new) 17" laptops that are for sale that would be good for rendering w/ Octane?

I checked HP, Acer, and Dell, but they all seem to use non-NVIDIA graphics cards.

[radiance]

at the moment i would not recommend buying a laptop for octane as there are driver issues.
also, if you manage to find a laptop that does have the correct drivers, and we switch to cuda 3.1 or 4.0,
you might have to wait months for new drivers.

maybe think about a simple laptop with a cardbus slot and an xpander for octane ?

Radiance

[GeoPappas]

I'm looking to purchase a new laptop at some point to replace the one that I have. Since I am already going to get a laptop, I thought that it might be a good idea to get one that could support Octane.

...if you manage to find a laptop that does have the correct drivers, and we switch to cuda 3.1 or 4.0,
you might have to wait months for new drivers...

Do you know if NVIDIA has a timeline / roadmap for future CUDA versions?

[radiance]

I'm looking to purchase a new laptop at some point to replace the one that I have. Since I am already going to get a laptop, I thought that it might be a good idea to get one that could support Octane.

...if you manage to find a laptop that does have the correct drivers, and we switch to cuda 3.1 or 4.0,
you might have to wait months for new drivers...

Do you know if NVIDIA has a timeline / roadmap for future CUDA versions?

not really 3.1 is coming soon, that's all i know.

Radiance

[havensole]

I believe you can get the alienware laptops with dual gtx285m's.

[jondhall]

Nvidia are releasing unified driver sets for laptop users. However this is early days, but it does give rise to some hope for future laptop purchases. If interested I would look on nvidia's site and see if they mention any lappys there.

[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

[andrear]

DELL PRECISION 6500
NVIDIA quadro 3800M
http://www.nvidia.com/page/quadrofx_go.html

[GeoPappas]

DELL PRECISION 6500
NVIDIA quadro 3800M
http://www.nvidia.com/page/quadrofx_go.html

That's a $3800 laptop!

[SurfingAlien]

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