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I'm looking for suggestions for a decent laptop solution with support for Octane. Anyone who has one of the listed options it would be nice to hear your review of them with Octane and 3D use in general.

Disclaimer: The laptops I post here I can not confirm will work with Octane. I'm merely compiling a list of possible solutions. I hope to confirm them from the community if possible

I think I'm going to compile a list of options:

Alienware m11x (base price $599 special as of 12/5/2010): http://www.dell.com/us/p/alienware-m11x/pd

Video card: 1 GB NVIDIA® 335M graphics

HP EliteBook 8740w (base price $2,999.00 as of 12/5/2010): http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm ... 13326.html
Dell XPS

Video card: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M graphics with 1 GB dedicated GDDR3 video memory

Dell XPS 14 (base price $899 as of 12/5/2010): http://www.dell.com/us/p/xps-14/pd

Video card: NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 420M 1GB graphics with Optimus
NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 425M 2GB graphics

Dell XPS 15 (base price $799 as of 12/5/2010): http://www.dell.com/us/p/xps-15/pd

Video card: NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 435M 2GB graphics

Nichod wrote:... Alienware m11x.

I'm not sure about you, but I could never use an 11" screen for 3D work (or much of anything else). But then again, my eyes are getting worse as time goes on.

The following post might be able to offer some help:

http://www.refractivesoftware.com/forum ... op&start=0

GeoPappas wrote:

Nichod wrote:... Alienware m11x.

I'm not sure about you, but I could never use an 11" screen for 3D work (or much of anything else). But then again, my eyes are getting worse as time goes on.

The following post might be able to offer some help:

http://www.refractivesoftware.com/forum ... op&start=0

Thanks. Good information. More research. I'm going to post as many recent laptop options as I can and go from there. The point of the smaller screen is to allow portability. I've done Blender, Photoshop and Web development work for 2 years now on a 12" screen with no problems.