Hi,

Was wondering if people out there use a laptop to run Poser (...and other 3D apps for that matter) ?

The reason I am asking is because I am considering purchasing a laptop and wondered if Poser slows down performance-wise on a laptop ? ... Laptops have integrated graphics, correct ? .. I have heard that this is a performance drawback.

I welcome your feedback.

Thanks and regards,
Andrew

....Oh, and its a widescreen that I am considering.

Works fine on my Dell D830 which is old.

Considering most modern laptops wazz all over my Poser desktop machine, I can't see a problem. 

Haven't looked into it myself, but now you've got my curiosity up.  What's the max screen resolution that is available on typical widescreen laptops nowdays?

(clinging tightly to a dual 19" monitor setup)

If you only shop at Best Buy, you won't find any more than 1440x900 (considered Premium). For example, there is an Alienware Premium 17" with that resolution (and a crazy price - $2299.99).

However, if you shop elsewhere, particularly for laptops that are basically software development workstations, you'll find 1920x1200. That's what I have. Look for WUXGA - that's 1920x1200.

Quote - Considering most modern laptops wazz all over my Poser desktop machine, I can't see a problem. 

What is this translated into English ?

Quote - > Quote - Considering most modern laptops wazz all over my Poser desktop machine, I can't see a problem. 

What is this translated into English ?

That is English.  :P  :biggrin:

Thanks for the display info BBill.

My Laptop was a $500 special from walmart, a Toshiba. dual core processor, 3gb memory , 250 gb hard drive , dvd . It works great with poser, better than my old laptop.

i have run Poser 5, 6, 7, Pro and 8 on various laptops since 2005 in fact i don't  know if Poser run on a desktop ;-)

like BB said try to get a 17 inch 1900x1200 screen, my advice is to don't get anything less than a 15 inch 1680x1050, tried once Poser 8 on a 1440x900 but i have to undock many elements to get some room to work

i don't know how poser work  with the integrated graphics, i buy only laptops with a dedicaced graphics card and video memory, Modo and C4D feel better with a good gfx card

Quote - > Quote - > Quote - Considering most modern laptops wazz all over my Poser desktop machine, I can't see a problem. 

What is this translated into English ?

That is English.  :P  :biggrin:

Except for the verb which more or less makes your entire sentence nonsensical. I have a laptop and I have never seen it wazz my desktop. Of course, I have no idea what that means, so maybe I missed it. It sounds dirty.

I can, however, run Poser 7 with no real problems. It's a Dell Inspirion I1520 (or something). It has an integrated graphics card. I think it's about 2 years old (probably a bit less). OpenGL preview doesn't always work and SreeD has strange things happen, such as characters' (in the distance) clothing appears shredded. It has no effect other than in the preview mode. I also get a lot more of the "infinite poly" (when a mesh has a poly that appears to go off into inifinty but doesn't really, if you've seen it, you know what I mean). Other than that, I take my laptop with me everywhere and set up some pretty serious scenes.  I never use it for rendering more than three figures though as I will get the "not enough memory to load texture or babd texture" error.

I used to run Poser on a laptop.  The only problem that I really had was lack of storage space. My hard drive was only 40 gigs.  Also, I found that I couldn't render large scenes and often had to reduce the texture sizes in my graphic program so that the longest side was no more than 1024 pixels on the longest side.  I also found that I had to hide things and render in bits and pieces and piece it all together in my graphic program.

Maybe a newer, more powerful computer would work better.

 No problems running Poser, Maya or Vue on a Macbook Pro. I second the advice to stay away from integrated graphics. It will cause more headaches that the $200 you save will be worth.

Quote - > Quote - > Quote - Considering most modern laptops wazz all over my Poser desktop machine, I can't see a problem. 

What is this translated into English ?

That is English.  :P  :biggrin:

'Wazz' is not English. I have no idea what you are talking about ?

Quote - I can, however, run Poser 7 with no real problems. It's a Dell Inspirion I1520 (or something). It has an integrated graphics card. I think it's about 2 years old (probably a bit less). OpenGL preview doesn't always work and SreeD has strange things happen, such as characters' (in the distance) clothing appears shredded. It has no effect other than in the preview mode. I also get a lot more of the "infinite poly" (when a mesh has a poly that appears to go off into inifinty but doesn't really, if you've seen it, you know what I mean). Other than that, I take my laptop with me everywhere and set up some pretty serious scenes.  I never use it for rendering more than three figures though as I will get the "not enough memory to load texture or babd texture" error.

drewradley, what are the specs of your Dell Inspiron ?

I run P7 on a compaq Presario CQ60 laptop, 2 GB ram with no problems.

Grow a sense of humor folks. He was just saying it beats his desktop...

Laurie

to Wazz. :
to take a leak. to water the daisies. to syphon the python. to pee. English slang term.

ergo : "Considering most modern laptops wazz all over my Poser desktop machine, I can't see a problem. " is "Considering most modern laptops pee all over my Poser desktop machine, I can't see a problem. "

you guys don't have slang terms where you are?

And also do these guys not have Google? Took me all of ten seconds to find it.

UK Slang - W

http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/w.htm

Open that page and you'll find wazz. Apparently it has a couple other meanings. So I could say:

Wazz over to Google and when you find what wazz means, wazz the link over to me. I'd do it myself but I have to wazz real bad.

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drewradley, what are the specs of your Dell Inspiron ?

Dell Inspiron I1520, Intel core 2 duo, T8300 @ 2.40GHz, 3.5 gigs ram.

Mobile Intel 965 Express Chipset video.

If I had to do all over again, I would have saved another couple months and bought one with a dedicated video card.

     Laptops are limited in capacity, but as long as you get/have something reasonably well equipped, it'll do fine.  Dual core would be nice;  RAM would be most important to me;  budget permitting, get the max the chassis/OS will take, usually 4Gb for 32bit OS, or 8Gb for 64bit.

    You certainly can get a dedicated video card in a laptop;  I'd get a OpenGL compliant video card, rather than rely on "on-board" video. 
I like those 1920x1200 pixel screens because they have lots of workspace for control panels. :D

No problem running Poser or other 3D apps on a laptop. My setup is a Intel Core2Duo 2.4Ghz, 4Gb Ram (3.5Gb usable in Windows), ATI HD4330 256Mb, 300Gb Hard Drive. Came with Vista 32bit, but I replaced that with WinXP, runs much smoother. I've got a 15,6" widescreen, I used to have a regular 17", but I do not miss the size difference at all. The widescreen is wider, but less high, but I do not miss the height at all. I do find that the extra width is much more pleasant and usefull then extra height.

It handles everything well, Poser runs great, everything is fast and responsive. Rendering goes pretty fast. I also use Vue, Bryce and TrueSpace (to model), no problems there.

Just make sure you get one with a dedicated video card, it's a must, the integrated gfx are not that good. I also would recommend considering a quadcore, in the long run it will be worth spending the extra money for that.

 I'm now happily using an HP ProBook 4710s (2.1GHz core duo, 2GB RAM, XP Pro) which is a great improvement over my last machine - but then it would be. I'm too embarrassed to post the specs of its predecessor. :)

The only thing I would change if I could is the display - at 1600 x 900, it has plenty of pixels, but a 4:3 screen or even a portrait monitor would be better for much of what I do. Widescreen is good for music and audio editing, which tends to work horizontally, and for watching videos (which I hardly ever do anyway); but for documents and for Poser work with standing figures, it's limiting.

The only issue some users may encounter with Laptops has to do with support of OpenGL with some of the Video Chipsets used... nVidia are ususally good, Intel Drivers seem to only come from the Laptop Manufacturer... if it is a new Chipset you are normally okay, but if it is an older one, you may find the Driver has no updates. I am not real familiar personally with ATI, but I also do not see to many issues reported with the ATI Mobility Chipsets, so I suspect they are okay. You can run Preview in SreeD, so it is not something that will prevent you from running Poser on a Laptop.

I've even run Poser on a netbook, so a laptop should not be an issue. Screen size is pitiful, so it would have to be hooked up to an external monitor. I haven't rendered anything of significance on it, but it ought to be slow compared to a regular laptop or desktop. The netbook does have a very spacious 160gb hard drive. It's not my computer of choice for doing Poser renders, but it's great for laying out stuff and playing around with Poser content when I'm away from home.

On a netbook ? ... wait until I pick up my jaw from the floor ! .... what RAM and what clock speed ? .... is it easy to hook up a big monitor to it ? .... alt, could you render an image larger than the netbook's screen size ?

Don't get too excited by the prospect of running Poser on a netbook.  While you could run the UI and do scene setup, you would be very limited in rendering, in terms of scene complexity, quality settings, and pixel dimensions.

Just don''t purchase a laptop mounting device that  connects to your car's steering wheel.  There is a good chance that it will disable Poser if not used correctly.  Jan  

I have the same type of Laptop as wheatpenny, a compaq Presario CQ60 laptop, 3 GB ram,  and it runs Poser good.

Only problem is the disk  space for me as I have a very large runtime and only 260GB disk.
So I only put what I'm working on currently on it and keep all else on a removable drive with a1TB disk.
Screen resolution is 1366X768