Reply To: 2020 Design System Recommendations

April 14, 2015 at 8:18 pm #26766

First I’d heard of them but certainly a very high spec. I might buy one if I win the lottery (have to take part in it first though!)

Just FYI, onscreen renders in V10/V11 are VERY dependent on both graphic card AND processor type and speed so pick the highest i7 she can afford with the best graphics – I prefer NVIDIA to Radeon. Other factors become less important – I found no difference on my laptop when I went from 8GB to 16GB of RAM. The hybrid hard drive upgrade I did made little or no difference to 20-20 Design.

I did need the extra RAM and disk speed because I run a Virtual Machine of Windows XP for my Catalog Tools work since on my system, Catalog Tools fails to work if I have V10/V11 resident in the same OS.

For Panoramic 360 uploads, it’s purely about processor speed. However, I only do Panoramic 360s now for customers who want a preview at home – in the showroom I use a tablet linked in as a second screen and throw the render onto this. It works quite well.

A true SSD would make no difference to render speeds but does speed up general operation.

The Eurocom notebooks equipped with an i7-4940MX Extreme can be overclocked to 4.00GHz so a VERY good choice.

Share this Post