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Laptops for Use w/ Octane?

Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 2:53 pm
by 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.

Re: Laptops for Use w/ Octane?

Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 3:51 pm
by 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

Re: Laptops for Use w/ Octane?

Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 4:01 pm
by 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.
radiance wrote:...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?

Re: Laptops for Use w/ Octane?

Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 4:11 pm
by radiance
GeoPappas wrote: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.
radiance wrote:...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

Re: Laptops for Use w/ Octane?

Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 6:36 pm
by havensole
I believe you can get the alienware laptops with dual gtx285m's.

Re: Laptops for Use w/ Octane?

Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 3:06 pm
by 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.

Re: Laptops for Use w/ Octane?

Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 4:46 pm
by 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

Re: Laptops for Use w/ Octane?

Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 5:09 pm
by andrear
DELL PRECISION 6500
NVIDIA quadro 3800M
http://www.nvidia.com/page/quadrofx_go.html

Re: Laptops for Use w/ Octane?

Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 5:16 pm
by GeoPappas
andrear wrote:DELL PRECISION 6500
NVIDIA quadro 3800M
http://www.nvidia.com/page/quadrofx_go.html
That's a $3800 laptop!

Re: Laptops for Use w/ Octane?

Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 5:50 pm
by SurfingAlien
GeoPappas wrote: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 :(