Ok, so I want to buy a laptop for graphic art work. Mainly for drawing, using soft wares like Flash, the adobe creative suite (photoshop, illustrator, premier etc…), 3D Max.
I want the laptop mainly as a stand in for a PC, because I don’t want to get a PC right now, which means I’m not going to travel with it, just take it around the house, or if I have problems to get it repaired or something.
The main thing is I do a lot of drawings, and my old computers freeze, ditto with the flash, I make these animated cards, slideshow things, and it freezes, also the rendering in 3D max, it takes time, so a good graphics card is a must.
Anyways, I decided on a Dell XPS M1530 (for the NVIDIA graphics card) or a Dell studio 15 (for the 3GB memory). So I was deciding, because studio 15 has the ATI graphics card, and I read on reviews that ATI is slower and eats up more power. So we went to the laptop shop, (I live in Pune), and the dealer suggested an HP DV 6910 TX.
We have to remove Vista and install XP in any of my choice, because Vista doesn’t work on many of the graphics soft wares. Also, I initially wanted an Apple, but it is not used widespread here, and I don’t have a good soft ware dealer (Actually I don’t even have one). The HP DV 6910 TX, seems to be the same, like the DELL. 3GB, Nvidia graphics card, heavy HDD.
I do have a doubt though, I went to the HP site, India and US, well, unlike the Dell site, I couldn’t find the tech specs nor a good photo of the laptop, also there is not a single review on the international boards about this laptop, it sort of seems like it didn’t do well on the market there and they just dumped it here? Am I wrong? Can someone get me an online review?
I read a few pages previous (on this laptop thread) someone who was very happy with his/her HP. Can you please tell me if you use this for graphics?
I know HP is better for graphics (actually I am presuming, because it sponsors the show “the engine room” on VH1. anyways, I f anyone can help me make my decision based on what I’m using the computer for.
Does anyone have any other HP models you can recommend for graphics artists?
Has anyone had Vista removed from their laptop, and had HP added and has anything happened to the functioning of said laptop?
Which really is better Ati or Nvidia?
Other than my choice that I have discussed above, does anyone have any experience with a laptop, that can be as good as a PC, or nearly as good, used for graphics?
thanks for taking the time to read my query, I hope someone can help me out J