Hey everyone I'm in the market for a new laptop to run Resolume Arena proficiently. Id like something very powerful yet somewhat portable. Oh and it has to be Windows machine.
I've narrowed it down to these three...
http://www.razerzone.com/store/razer-blade
http://www.originpc.com/workstation/lap ... n15-s-pro/
http://shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-offic ... Best-Value
The Razer is probably the highest price i'll go
In market for new laptop
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rawdesigns
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Re: In market for new laptop
You might want to check out the Lenovo y510p, it is pretty decent for the money.
http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/le ... ies/y510p/
Vs HP
755m vs 740
vga+hdmi vs just hdmi out
same processors
The razer blade is a little more portable with a 14" screen, but since it has a 3200*1800 resolution on the built in screen you are wasting some of your gpu to push more pixels on the control screen, which doesn't seem worth it to me. It also appears to only have 1 hdmi out.
The origin pc can be pretty well tricked out to be whatever you can dream/afford which is cool. It also has hdmi and displayport 1.2 AND mini displayport, so with some dongles you could output whatever you need. But I know the machine I'd want to build from them would end up being >$2400 with the ssd, so you have to be willing to dig deep in those pockets.
Which ever way you choose, I'd strongly recommend that you leave room in the budget for a SSD, Samsung Evo 840 512gig or similar. I'll try to use the resolume benchmark on my y510 sometime here and I'll let you know the result, but it won't be for a couple days. Good luck.
http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/le ... ies/y510p/
Vs HP
755m vs 740
vga+hdmi vs just hdmi out
same processors
The razer blade is a little more portable with a 14" screen, but since it has a 3200*1800 resolution on the built in screen you are wasting some of your gpu to push more pixels on the control screen, which doesn't seem worth it to me. It also appears to only have 1 hdmi out.
The origin pc can be pretty well tricked out to be whatever you can dream/afford which is cool. It also has hdmi and displayport 1.2 AND mini displayport, so with some dongles you could output whatever you need. But I know the machine I'd want to build from them would end up being >$2400 with the ssd, so you have to be willing to dig deep in those pockets.
Which ever way you choose, I'd strongly recommend that you leave room in the budget for a SSD, Samsung Evo 840 512gig or similar. I'll try to use the resolume benchmark on my y510 sometime here and I'll let you know the result, but it won't be for a couple days. Good luck.
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rawdesigns
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Re: In market for new laptop
Thanks for the quick reply! I did not know that the screen resolution on the laptop itself has an effect. And yes with the Razer it seems to sacrifice more sleek style/portability than having the option of useful outputs/components. I might be headed more toward the direction of the Origin but i'll be sure to compare with the Lenovo. Thanks! 
p.s. Resolume has a benchmark application??
p.s. Resolume has a benchmark application??
Re: In market for new laptop
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I am looking at these at the moment
ASUS G550JK HD Display, GTX 850, currently available
ASUS GX500 , 4k display, M.2 SSD, GTX 860 soon to be.
ASUS G550JK HD Display, GTX 850, currently available
ASUS GX500 , 4k display, M.2 SSD, GTX 860 soon to be.
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