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Hello,

I'm examining notebook possibilities for doing 3D animation
(specifically Alias' Maya). I was wondering if anyone had information
on the elusive "mobile workstation". First off, I've only found a very
few companies that make notebooks with high-end OpenGL video - e.g. ATI
FireGL, Nvidia Quadro. Dell, Fujitsu, HP, all seem to have roughly
equivalent offerings. Does anyone know why they only offer mobile
workstations with a) the Pentium M (as opposed to the Pentium 4 or
Athlon 64) and b) 15" screens (as opposed to 17" )? How is the Pentium
M for 3D work, such as rendering? Does anyone have other
recommendations? I'm also looking into Boxx and Alienware, both of
whom also offer mobile workstations.

EC

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<echasin@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I'm examining notebook possibilities for doing 3D animation
> (specifically Alias' Maya). I was wondering if anyone had information
> on the elusive "mobile workstation". First off, I've only found a very
> few companies that make notebooks with high-end OpenGL video - e.g. ATI
> FireGL, Nvidia Quadro. Dell, Fujitsu, HP, all seem to have roughly
> equivalent offerings. Does anyone know why they only offer mobile
> workstations with a) the Pentium M (as opposed to the Pentium 4 or
> Athlon 64) and b) 15" screens (as opposed to 17" )? How is the Pentium
> M for 3D work, such as rendering? Does anyone have other
> recommendations? I'm also looking into Boxx and Alienware, both of
> whom also offer mobile workstations.
>
> EC
>

Beware some of the "Gamer Laptops" that focus more on DirectX performance
and not Open GL. That said, I would like to see a comparison of some of the
latest generation PCI Express cards such as the nVidia GeForce Go 6800 with
the FireGL and Quadro cards. If they would work, it opens up a lot more
options, for example, Sager, Velocity Micro and Acer have machines with the
GeForce Go 6800.

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On 1 Feb 2005 10:30:35 -0800, echasin@yahoo.com wrote:

>I'm examining notebook possibilities for doing 3D animation
>(specifically Alias' Maya). I was wondering if anyone had information
>on the elusive "mobile workstation". First off, I've only found a very
>few companies that make notebooks with high-end OpenGL video - e.g. ATI
>FireGL, Nvidia Quadro. Dell, Fujitsu, HP, all seem to have roughly
>equivalent offerings. Does anyone know why they only offer mobile
>workstations with a) the Pentium M (as opposed to the Pentium 4 or
>Athlon 64) and b) 15" screens (as opposed to 17" )? How is the Pentium
>M for 3D work, such as rendering? Does anyone have other
>recommendations? I'm also looking into Boxx and Alienware, both of
>whom also offer mobile workstations.

IBM T42p, does everything you ask for.

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