Hello,
I'm new here 😉 My name is Wim, and I am a Industrial Design student and looking for a new notebook. I have pretty much decided it will be a 15" VAIO flip, but need some advice on the configuration.
Use
- Major Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign (often all running at the same time)
- Occasional CAD modeling. (pretty basic solidworks, 50 parts assemblies max; but usually no more than 10 parts; so no thousands of parts jet engines or that kind of stuff.)
- Occasional rendering. (willing to give that up, and perform that on the desktops in the faculty)
- Very occasionally some basic video editing.
- further more, word, powerpoint, browsing etc.
The 15" vaio Multi Flip caught my eye. The flip-able touchscreen with the active stylus seems like an ideal solution for use with Photoshop and illustrator! (maybe even soliworks, wouldn't know but would be fun to try) And at the other hand it seems to be pretty useful as a regular notebook as well.
Now, I know that a workstation GPU (Quadro) is preferable for CAD modeling and rendering, but I won't be using solidworks that much, and not that complicated. So I was hoping a gaming card would suffice.
The VAIO only comes with HD4400 or GeForce 735M (1 or 2 GB) My budget is not endless either, so my question is would a HD4400 suffice? Or should I hurt my bank account a bit more by spending an additional 130 euro's on a 2GB GeForce 735M gpu? (rendering is no priority, but I would like to be able to model without too many hiccups)
For the other specs I was thinking:
CPU: i7 4500U(damn that's expensive..)
RAM: 12GB (not that expensive, or overkill?)
HDD: 500GB ATA (+8GB flash SSD) (Don't need much more, SSD just too expensive)
Regards,
Wim
I'm new here 😉 My name is Wim, and I am a Industrial Design student and looking for a new notebook. I have pretty much decided it will be a 15" VAIO flip, but need some advice on the configuration.
Use
- Major Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign (often all running at the same time)
- Occasional CAD modeling. (pretty basic solidworks, 50 parts assemblies max; but usually no more than 10 parts; so no thousands of parts jet engines or that kind of stuff.)
- Occasional rendering. (willing to give that up, and perform that on the desktops in the faculty)
- Very occasionally some basic video editing.
- further more, word, powerpoint, browsing etc.
The 15" vaio Multi Flip caught my eye. The flip-able touchscreen with the active stylus seems like an ideal solution for use with Photoshop and illustrator! (maybe even soliworks, wouldn't know but would be fun to try) And at the other hand it seems to be pretty useful as a regular notebook as well.
Now, I know that a workstation GPU (Quadro) is preferable for CAD modeling and rendering, but I won't be using solidworks that much, and not that complicated. So I was hoping a gaming card would suffice.
The VAIO only comes with HD4400 or GeForce 735M (1 or 2 GB) My budget is not endless either, so my question is would a HD4400 suffice? Or should I hurt my bank account a bit more by spending an additional 130 euro's on a 2GB GeForce 735M gpu? (rendering is no priority, but I would like to be able to model without too many hiccups)
For the other specs I was thinking:
CPU: i7 4500U(damn that's expensive..)
RAM: 12GB (not that expensive, or overkill?)
HDD: 500GB ATA (+8GB flash SSD) (Don't need much more, SSD just too expensive)
Regards,
Wim
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