Ok Im totally confused now and need some help. I am a free lance graphic designer and animator. I use Photoshop CS4 and Illustrator but the last few months there has been an increased demand in motion graphics. I use Cinema 4D and After Effects alot. I tend to use Global Illumination and Ambient Occlusion too and Im finding the render times of each frame to be unbareably long.
My machine is getting old and I want to replace it but I dont have a big budget nor alot of space since moving to this new small apartment. At the moment Im running:
Dell XPS 720 with Vista 32-Bit
Intel Quad core Q6600 @ 2.4Ghz
Geforce 8800 Ultra 768Mb graphics card
4Gb RAM
I have my eye on a Dell XPS laptop here's its spec:
Dell xps L502x. i7 processor 2.00GHZ with Turbo boost 2.0 up to 2.90GHZ
Memory 6GB
,Hard drive 640GB,
Optical Drive;8xDVD+/-RW Optical drive,
Power supply Xps 130W AC Adapter,
Power cord;uk 250V,
Battery;Primary 9-cell90W/HR LI-ION
Graphic;2GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M Graphic card
Window;English genuine windows 7 Home Premium(64 BIT)
So my question is would this be worth buying? Its at a good price but when I compare graphics cards and processors the laptop seems fo fall much shorter. I know desktops are best suited to this kind of work but this pc is nearly three years old now, the laptop must be able to handle it better right?!
Cheers
My machine is getting old and I want to replace it but I dont have a big budget nor alot of space since moving to this new small apartment. At the moment Im running:
Dell XPS 720 with Vista 32-Bit
Intel Quad core Q6600 @ 2.4Ghz
Geforce 8800 Ultra 768Mb graphics card
4Gb RAM
I have my eye on a Dell XPS laptop here's its spec:
Dell xps L502x. i7 processor 2.00GHZ with Turbo boost 2.0 up to 2.90GHZ
Memory 6GB
,Hard drive 640GB,
Optical Drive;8xDVD+/-RW Optical drive,
Power supply Xps 130W AC Adapter,
Power cord;uk 250V,
Battery;Primary 9-cell90W/HR LI-ION
Graphic;2GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M Graphic card
Window;English genuine windows 7 Home Premium(64 BIT)
So my question is would this be worth buying? Its at a good price but when I compare graphics cards and processors the laptop seems fo fall much shorter. I know desktops are best suited to this kind of work but this pc is nearly three years old now, the laptop must be able to handle it better right?!
Cheers
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