Laptops with Pro in use

Question

Slightly different wording of other people's questions...

For people *currently* using a local Pro install, what laptop are you using? I'm more interested in something that actually works, not "I'll go get coffee while I wait for 50 polygons to be clipped". From other queries so for I have found

ASUS G15 with 40Gb physical RAM

Raden 780M with 32Gb RAM

Anyone else?

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I will also add that one should not use AMD gpus since Pro I think is designed around Nvidia and also because Nvidia 2000 series gpus and onwards have Cuda cores which you need for AI and ML.

Ed_ · Answer

I am currently using an Acer Nitro 5 15.6

12 Gen Corei5

16 gigs of DDR4

512GB PCIe SSD (an SSD really helps btw and an HDD should actually be discouraged at this point)

Nvidia 3050 Ti 4 gigs for VRAM lol it has a tiny count of Cuda cores so it does help with Machine learning but poor guy just screams at me lol when analyzing biggish raster or LiDAR data or deep learning stuff

The laptop I have imo is I think a bare minimum for standard geoprocessing tools smooth running and it gets the job done but yells at me when I doing something 3D, LiDAR or raster based or big tabular data lol

I think for a decent experience a machine should at least have the 3000 series Nvidia gpu with at least 8 gigs of VRAM and adequate cuda cores for machine learning. I think Core i5 (Pro is designed around Intel processors I think) is fine because honestly most of Pro is not designed for parallel processing which should seriously be looked into for optimization sakes. An nVME SSD for also further help speed up reading data and may be in a few years 32 gigs of ram would also be beneficial especially once DDR5 becomes cheaper.

Lol sorry for sounding like a PC gamer right now but I actually do game on a PC so maybe that's why lol