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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

CS5 PC to Mac Compatibility; also best PC laptop

Yes, Dell is good in doing warranty repairs, coming to your place and changing what need be.
This I have to agree that they do the best. (backup your files)
As to the support calls you need to have a bit of experience how to navigate among different divisions there.

I recently did video card upgrade on my XPS laptop to 8800M GTX from 8600.
Something that is not really well recognized by Dell Support but possible. All worked out fine and I did spend 3 times less time on hold than on AT&T line just to ask what features I have on my LD line:-)


Now Mercury support will work on most of the NVIDIA cards that have 1GB video memory.
I am underlining VIDEO memory not graphic memory.

Also new driver from NVIDIA website have to be downloaded even if there is a remark that it not suppose to be installed on Dell.
I installed driver ver 266.58 on Dell Precision and it works so far without any problem.
One more thing, the OS have to be 64 bit. I am on Vista 64.

So, for the laptop that supports Mercury engine I recommend Dell Precision 6500.
Make sure that for graphic card you pick Quadro with 1GB memory, Mercury will not work with 512MB on any card.
 
I am very interested in the title of this post, which I've interpreted as "best PC laptop to run CS5".

What are peoples experiences running R3D through CS5 on a laptop? Also, can it be done without a vidock? :bigear:
 
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Well, on the laptop you can do quick check and maybe 1080 material.
And it is not so much the speed since Mercury Engine is very good doing it real-time at 2K on most of the NVIDIA cards but the screen is simply too small to see the details and color reference.

Maybe if your final material is to be seen on the laptop, than laptop is good.
However one can connect second 40”+ screen to the laptop if card is supporting this feature.

Make sure that your laptop has fast hard disk though or use external.
 
Andrew M. said:
Well, on the laptop you can do quick check and maybe 1080 material.
And it is not so much the speed since Mercury Engine is very good doing it real-time at 2K on most of the NVIDIA cards but the screen is simply too small to see the details and color reference.

Maybe if your final material is to be seen on the laptop, than laptop is good.
However one can connect second 40”+ screen to the laptop if card is supporting this feature.

Make sure that your laptop has fast hard disk though or use external.
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Wanting to make 10 minute infomercials using fixed scarlet for the web @ 24fps

Will this laptop work? The new lenovo X220 has an IPS screen (same type as mac), 2 hard drives, sandy bridge 2.7 GHz (turbo 3.4) (cpu only has: 2 cores, 4 threads), usb3 so possible external raid, 8GB of ram (possibly it can go to 16GB). plus vidock to a monitor.

...mainly worried about number of cpu cores and having raided hard drives, but a guy on this thread mentioned he had a core2duo...? go figure...
 
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adam r said:
...mainly worried about number of cpu cores and having raided hard drives, but a guy on this thread mentioned he had a core2duo...? go figure...
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For me it makes a huge difference as far as Cores go. Reason is that we use the MacBook Pros for Avid, Protools and occasionally motion design using After Effects.
You can tell big time when using BootCamp Windows 7 64bit :)
 
I just recently bought a HP EliteBook 8540w - working in CS5 is a breeze.
* Intel Quadcore i7-740QM
* Quadro FX1800M 1GB
* 8 GB RAM + 2 extra memory slots for a total of 16 GB
* 500 GB HD with 7200rpm
* Bluray writer
* 15,6" Full-HD LED backlit display, anti-glare
* 1x eSATA
* 1x ExpressCard slot
* 2x USB3.0
* 3x USB2.0
* 1x FW400
* 1x DisplayPort
* 1x VGA-Port
* 1x Gbit LAN
* WLAN 802.11a/b/g/n
* Bluetooth 2.1
* SD(HC)-card reader
* Webcam + 2 mics
* dock connector
* Fingerprint sensor (nice for logging into the system without typing passwords)
* 3 years warranty
* 8 cell battery

System can be expanded with extra 12 cell battery pack mounted outside into the dock connector, a docking station and some more goodies.
It is a great workstation. Eventually I would wait for the sandybridge update.

You can configure the laptop for your purposes here:
http://h71016.www7.hp.com/MiddleFra...=3156&BaseId=32117&oi=E9CED&BEID=19701&SBLID=
 
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