Laptop requirements

[abdoullah_tomeh]

Hello,

I want to buy laptop and I am planning to work with advance steel and revit on it.

I know that I need 16 Gb Ram and SSD from my experience with my desktop.

The problem is I don’t know how to choose Graphic cards and if getting faster Processor will be beneficial.

Autodesk website did not help me.

Please give me your thoughts and ideas

and if there is a preferred brand or specification for this kind of work.

Sincerely,

[Sebastian_Eiche]

Here are many thread belonging to system requirements. As you already wrote, SSD+16GB, you need a fast processor and graphic cards could be found on the autodesk site for it: https://knowledge.autodesk.com/certified-graphics-hardware

but the easiest way is to buy a workstation laptop. Why setting up a system, if there already existing and testet workstations for it. There're different companies which create workstations: Dell, HP, Lenovo...and there many more.

[acbsdesign]

Hi,

It depends on hours per day, work conditions, price etc, but if you plan on using it only when on vacations then HP Z or similar will do the job.

https://store.hp.com/us/en/mlp/laptops/workstation-352501--1 

If you plan on using it every day, 8 hours a day, better get a desktop version. 

The latest processors now can run with 5.1-5.2 with turbo.

Samsung Evo Pro SSD is a good choice.

Video card-for modeling in AS video card has never been an issue, so do not spend huge $$$ on an 8GB+ card, 5Gb is enough.

HTH

[markhubrich]

I compare computers to tools. This laptop is designed for this. 

https://www.boxx.com/systems/mobile-workstations/goboxx-mxl 

[sdonohoedesign]

Any laptop capable of running AS is going to be expensive.

A desktop PC would be far more capable for around half the price.

[markhubrich]

I'm going to need to take pics of my "custom laptop" and show you my solution to mobile modeling. 

[markhubrich]

I keep forgetting to get current pics of this thing in the evening. Its probably a bit more involved than most would care to get into.  Most people don't come home from best buy with a 19" lcd and crack it open and gut it for the parts. lol. I found these from 2012 though. I'm sure you can see where this is going. Currently in the bottom half is liquid cooled workstation guts. Of course it's overclocked to 5GHz and has 32gb DDR4 RAM. I set a reminder to get pics tonight. I have plans to add a projector to it too so you can just set it down, plug it in, turn it on and aim it at the wall.

The Lid behind 19" LCD.Side of case.

[acbsdesign]

@markhubrich 

Lol, ...you made my day.

[Adrian.Mangan]

Not true but I guess it depends what you regard as expensive

[Adrian.Mangan]

Depending on your budget I would say

1. CPU speed. (Amount of cores not really relevant for AS)

2. I would recommend 32gb instead of 16.

3. Nvme drive or SSD

4. Graphics card need to be good but not necessarily great.

This is just my opinion from much research.

[markhubrich]

Yes it would be nice for Advance Steel to take advantage of Nvidia CUDA tech. I think Google Chrome uses more GPU than AS. 

Here's another pic of my "laptop". It's been a while since I had this thing out and forgot that the internals are in my current home workstation. I have bigger plans for this though and now seems like a good time to get back to it. I have another identical case so I'm going to thicken it so I can add GPU card and cover the components with Arduino prototyping platform. 

Frankenstation

[Adrian.Mangan]

That is correct as far as I know Google Chrome does use GPU more than AS

[Adrian.Mangan]

Any heat issues in there or do you open when in use, I was going to build a wooden one with holes all over and aluminum plate to mount the motherboard.

[markhubrich]

Oh yes I cannot close it while it's on. That is one of the reasons I obtained an additional case to combine with. Like this but less features. I need more space between lid and power supply. I thought about liquid cooling for the power supply but that seems like it would be more work than it's worth. I will add 2 case fans also. I will have to do this before I stuff a projector in there too.