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Has anyone tried running Max+Octane on Microsoft's new Surface Book? I'm sure it's not a powerhouse, but I'm wondering if it has enough vram/cores at least for basic modeling, texturing, scene setup , etc.

No surface book owners here?

It looks like the GPU is in the docking station, so is it only available for use when docked? GPU has 1GB VRAM, which seems too little to do anything meaningful.

Paul

I realize this thread is a bit dated, but just wanted to share my experience with an Surfacebook i7 dGPU.

It has been the most annoying and frustrating piece of equipment I've ever owned. 3DS Max runs fairly well, but as soon as you get into more detailed work, things just go south. I do ArchViz, small interior scenes, simple textures, Direct light.

The surfacebook hits a max rendering speed in octane of 1.7-2.0 mb/s. Which is just painfully slow. For reference my desktop handles ~125mb/s.

And then we have the constant crashes, lock ups, keyboard stops working, rendering won't start, etc.

Im on my 3rd Surfacebook, Microsoft has replaced it twice for overheating and randon crashes. And results are pretty much the same.

Would love to hear from anybody else though. Am I just the unlucky one here?

Surface pro 3; it takes between 2-5 ctrl+alt+del to get into win10 without a hang & overheat at boot. It's TERRIBLE on your lap and win10 updates break it as often as they break my custom workstation which has non-certified hardware!!!

Looks good though, right?