51-70k Looking for a Laptop less than 70K for an Interior design course

Superhind

Superhind

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My friend is looking for a Laptop for his sister who has just started college and looking for a laptop for designing stuff. AFAIK, she will use Adobe's Substance 3D and other interior designing software. I am well versed with PC hardware but unaware of Laptop stuff.
Atleast 16GB of ram and 40 series GPU should be needed at bare minimum I think.
 
Is dGPU important? Is a 100% sRGB display required?

Gaming laptops with dGPUs are available but are heavy & no 100% sRGB display.

https://www.amazon.in/Acer-7-7735HS-Graphics-Windows-ANV15-41/dp/B0DFWRZLK5 - Usually around 75k before card offers

Can find 13-14" laptops with decent CPU & 100% sRGB display but no dGPU or upgradeable RAM.

 
OMEGA44-XT said:
Is dGPU important? Is a 100% sRGB display required?

Gaming laptops with dGPUs are available but are heavy & no 100% sRGB display.

https://www.amazon.in/Acer-7-7735HS-Graphics-Windows-ANV15-41/dp/B0DFWRZLK5 - Usually around 75k before card offers

Can find 13-14" laptops with decent CPU & 100% sRGB display but no dGPU or upgradeable RAM.

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RGB is not required. Dgpu is tho. GPU will be crucial for faster rendering.
 
Do check the HDMI version in case you want to use external HDMI /DP display.
many HDMI / DP ports will be limited to 4k @ 24Hz to 30Hz only.
Opt for one with atleast HDMI 2.0 or DP 1.4+
 
samiryadav said:
Do check the HDMI version in case you want to use external HDMI /DP display.
many HDMI / DP ports will be limited to 4k @ 24Hz to 30Hz only.
Opt for one with atleast HDMI 2.0 or DP 1.4+
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It is rare to get something limited to 4K 30Hz these days, obviously possible in 30k laptops or so. 4K 60Hz compatible ports is the least you should expect.
 
samiryadav said:
Do check the HDMI version in case you want to use external HDMI /DP display.
many HDMI / DP ports will be limited to 4k @ 24Hz to 30Hz only.
Opt for one with atleast HDMI 2.0 or DP 1.4+
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OMEGA44-XT said:
DP 1.2 supports 4K 60Hz, so technically my statement is still correct. HDMI 1.4 is definitely bad at this price, should have been HDMI 2.0 (even this is old now).
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I was talking about HDMI.Check the first post as it is most common option available.
DP option is part of USB.
 
I've always said get a pc if possible but otherwise get a laptop with an nvidia card, amd will face a lot of problems in 3d softwares because almost all of them uses nvidia's cuda cores for rendering
 
Superhind said:
My friend is looking for a Laptop for his sister who has just started college and looking for a laptop for designing stuff. AFAIK, she will use Adobe's Substance 3D and other interior designing software. I am well versed with PC hardware but unaware of Laptop stuff.
Atleast 16GB of ram and 40 series GPU should be needed at bare minimum I think.
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I do similar kind of work, it's not really necessary to have a 40 series card, firstly a good processor for gpu just a decent one will do, nothing top of the line.
Main thing is the processor
 
subhamsingh said:
I do similar kind of work, it's not really necessary to have a 40 series card, firstly a good processor for gpu just a decent one will do, nothing top of the line.
Main thing is the processor
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Agreed totally. I do lighting design, on a Fujitsu CH laptop 16gb/512gb having igzo led panel (very color accurate and good brightness) with I5 1135g7 processor having decent gpu power. Being 1kg it is very portable.
But i am considering an Ipad with pencil as it is really critical to collaborate with architects and interior designers.
My recommendation is you go for 57k laptop as suggested along with another 25k for an iPad.
This way the Numbers file of other designers will open in ipad, people on work can airdrop you, and other iOs things. While having windows laptop productivity at your disposal.
 
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