Budget Laptop for 3DS MAX

[sculliondr]

I am looking to buy a budget laptop ($1200) to help teach 3DS Max to High School Students, I am looking at the following:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834232404

or

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834232405

Would these laptops be capable of handling 3DS Max student, Photoshop and illustrator?

 

[Eximo]

I wouldn't call those budget laptops, and they are basically the same except for the SSD, more like mainstream gaming laptops. Gaming GPUs are certainly somewhat beneficial to 3DS Max use, but not as much in the rendering department, and the i7 won't hurt.

Should work for what you want it to do though.

Dell has a few offerings in their Precision series you might look at with low-end professional graphics cards. A lot of Autodesk products can take advantage of the drivers those work with.

 

[sculliondr]

Would something like this be better than the two gaming laptops?

http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/precision-m4800-workstation/pd?oc=cupmws4800w7p&model_id=precision-m4800-workstation

 

[Eximo]

Low resolution screen, i5 processor, didn't think they made one like that. Not sure I would compromise on that.

I have another M4800 with a 1920x1080 screen and an i7-4800MQ that was the base model a few years ago with a Quadro K620M. Something like 1500 dollars though.

Try this out: just add 4GB of memory.

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/w-series/w541/

 

[sculliondr]

What about something like this?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00T7EXKLG?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=ox_sc_act_title_1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

Im liking the slightly upgraded GPU and 17 inch ips screen

 

[Eximo]

That's not bad at all.

 

[velo3100]

I would say that out of all the laptops mentioned so far this is the best: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00T7EXKLG?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=ox_sc_act_title_1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

The gpu will depend on the level of complexity that you are teaching the kids. If you need a lot of gpu then the asus rog is the best. But if you just need to teach the basics the dell with the amd firepro is the best.