I'm considering a laptop - I had a Dell Inspiron here which I returned because when I installed Poser I couldn't get the screen to display the entire window (I'd get the document window and that was almost the entire screen). Is anyone successfully using Poser on a laptop? Kind of out of my depth with laptops.

Any laptop with a decent screen resolution 1024 x 768 or above should be able to run Poser without any problems.

Haven't tried PPP, but I'm running P5 on my laptop. no problems other than the average harddisk in a laptop is soon too small L

thanks for the replies...Dell owes me money so I just might try again :)

My only real issue is that it's just not powerful enough to render something print size especially when trying to use firefly (water, reflection, etc). It's a P4, 2.6 ghz w/ a 1/2 gig memory.

I've had P4, PP, and now P5 all on my Compaq laptop and, while the dinky little hard drives are a problem, my only serious problem has been screen darkness. Mine is set all the way to the highest brightness and it still displays things darker than I feel they should be. Overall, I think that with more RAM, it'll all be good on any laptop.

I've been running P5 on an IBM Thinkpad for a little over a year, with no problems at all.

Thanks again - my problem was I couldn't get anything but the document window visible - everything else was off the screen so it was not usable. All my other stuff was fine, it was just Poser 4 PP. Glad to know it works :)

Ok I have made a little bit more technical Test. I have Sony VAIO - PCG GRT 816 S. With P4 2.8 Ghz 512 Ram . It has Onyx Black Screen (Wonderfull) with the resolution of 1400*1024 and Result is perfect with P5 ..... By the way Processor fun is always working and the computers goes into protection mode after 1-2 hours working because of the heat :(. So Solution is disabling ACPI (Be carefull,you can burn your laptop). For the best result I think I need 2 gig of ram and one refrigerator in my LAPTOP :)

I have a Dell Precision M50 laptop, which is a mobile workstation. It's native resolution is 1600x1200. P4PP works just fine.

But...

it sounds like your problem may have had less to do with any inherent limitations of the laptop and more to do with the screen settings for your laptop's display and the configuration of the default PZ3 loading into P4PP. If I create a preferredstate PZ3 using 1600x1200 then change my screen resolution to something less --like 800x600-- and then load P4PP, everything outside a 800x600 portion of the P4PP screen is inaccessible (i.e., like your situation of seeing only the document window).

I suggest setting your screen resolution at its maximum setting before loading P4PP to see if the original default PZ3 file shows everything. If you were looking at a Dell Inspiron, I'm not sure why you had a problem since I think those have pretty large maximum screen resolutions (i.e., like my 1600x1200?).

If you set your display settings at maximum resolution and still can't see enough of the P4PP screen when you load the program, you might try getting someone to send you a preferredstate PZ3 file created at a lower screen resolution. Then you load that from the file menu, move things around the way you want, then save your preferred state. It should load properly next time.

Good luck...

Thanks Tguysu, I didn't buy another one - couldn't make myself want it bad enough :) I'm looking at those Precision workstations in preference to a Latitude, think that's the way to go eventually :)