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It's not that easy ...
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Yep! Samedi stole my laptop! LOL No wonder he's smirking! 
He's adorable, though, really.
He's adorable, though, really.
Just try and tell me he didn't!
http://img02.deviantart.net/fc0d/i/2015/167/7/a/my_workspace_by_childe_of_fyre-d8xieii.jpg
At least he has good taste in computers! This little laptop is a beast!
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It does look ... familiarJust try and tell me he didn't!
http://img02.deviantart.net/fc0d/i/2015/167/7/a/my_workspace_by_childe_of_fyre-d8xieii.jpg
At least he has good taste in computers! This little laptop is a beast!
Maybe 'cos it also looks like my little 'lug around with me' laptop too! Which is not too much of a beast, but is still a step up from the Atom processor, 1GB RAM netbook ...
It does look ... familiar
Which is not too much of a beast, but is still a step up from the Atom processor, 1GB RAM netbook ...
LMAO. My last computer was an old Dell XPS laptop... it had 1GB of RAM and I think a 256mb on-board video and maybe a 1GB processor in it. I was on that machine for so long after the final death of my old fossil desktop rig, that when I finally bought THIS laptop, I had to look up what the heck an i7 core processor was! I had no idea.
Toshiba Satellite.
I forget the screen size - I think it's a 15" screen.
12GBs of RAM, i7 Intel
Windows 8.1; 64-bit
It will NOT do Iray very well, it's on-board video, on-board sound, and the video is NOT Nvidia... so if you want to use Iray, I would NOT recommend it. A simple portrait (bald male, one shirt, NO background) takes this machine about twelve HOURS to do. And yes, I fiddled with the settings and materials and all of that, to avoid the usual pitfalls that increase render time.
If you're going to use 3Delight, then this machine does a great job... but I would not recommend it for Iray. I don't know how it would perform in Octane, as I don't own that, and I have not yet tested it on Reality, so can't say about that, either. But for Iray it has to do everything CPU-only and that dramatically increases render times (and is why I am still a 3Delight artist).
Other than the no-Iray thing, though, she's a very sweet little laptop and she's a beast for memory management and large scenes...
I forget the screen size - I think it's a 15" screen.
12GBs of RAM, i7 Intel
Windows 8.1; 64-bit
It will NOT do Iray very well, it's on-board video, on-board sound, and the video is NOT Nvidia... so if you want to use Iray, I would NOT recommend it. A simple portrait (bald male, one shirt, NO background) takes this machine about twelve HOURS to do. And yes, I fiddled with the settings and materials and all of that, to avoid the usual pitfalls that increase render time.
If you're going to use 3Delight, then this machine does a great job... but I would not recommend it for Iray. I don't know how it would perform in Octane, as I don't own that, and I have not yet tested it on Reality, so can't say about that, either. But for Iray it has to do everything CPU-only and that dramatically increases render times (and is why I am still a 3Delight artist).
Other than the no-Iray thing, though, she's a very sweet little laptop and she's a beast for memory management and large scenes...
The Win8 is the thing I hate, also. But for me, I had *NO* working rig at all anymore, so I basically had NO choice. Every dang machine in every store was being released with 8.1.
You'll note I have NOT updated to Win10, either. And I won't. I wish I could DOWNgrade back to 7 Pro, but I honestly have no idea how to do that... this *IS* a laptop, and it does NOT have a DVD or CD drive in it...
The Win 8 is definitely the down point for me on this machine. But I was at a point where I needed something, as I had nothing and was completely without a rig for almost 2 years (which is I why it looked like I had disappeared). And there was no choice for me, basically, when it came to the OS.
You'll note I have NOT updated to Win10, either. And I won't. I wish I could DOWNgrade back to 7 Pro, but I honestly have no idea how to do that... this *IS* a laptop, and it does NOT have a DVD or CD drive in it...
The Win 8 is definitely the down point for me on this machine. But I was at a point where I needed something, as I had nothing and was completely without a rig for almost 2 years (which is I why it looked like I had disappeared). And there was no choice for me, basically, when it came to the OS.
I have a Toshiba Satellite as well (as does hubby) - His is an S55 and mine an S75 (though I use a separate keyboard & monitor). When we bought them (his a few years back, mine last April when my desktop died) they did have some models at Costco with Win7 Pro. Not sure if they did at other stores. That was a deal breaker for us - didn't want Win8. We will likely upgrade to Win10 sometime this year. I want to upgrade while it's still free...