"benjrblant" (benjblant)
04/22/2019 at 10:07 • Filed to: None
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"benjrblant" (benjblant)
04/22/2019 at 10:07 • Filed to: None | 2
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Tis a bit flashy for my taste, but happy to have something more current. i-8950HK- 6 cores at 2.9ghz, 64gb ram, GeForce GTX 1080, and what feels like a brick of lead hidden in the case just to add weight.
AMA?
Maxima Speed
> benjrblant
04/22/2019 at 10:20 |
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Awesome. I’m hoping to order a fancy laptop for work soon. We need it for 3D scanning. Gonna be 64 GB of RAM, an SSD and HDD, Quadro 3200 GPU, 6 cores. Should be fun to mess with. I do have a question I guess. Any particular reason you went for the 8950 processor, was it just what was it? The computer we will be purchasing has an 8570 I think? Thanks
Aremmes
> benjrblant
04/22/2019 at 10:23 |
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I bet the weight comes from the RTG needed to power the GPU.
How’s the keyboard? It looks a bit iffy from here, sorta like the one on my wife’s Latitude. That one has no tactile feedback or key travel
at all
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benjrblant
> Maxima Speed
04/22/2019 at 10:23 |
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I went with the one that IT gave me! It’s not brand new, but it’s far newer than my previous work laptop.
ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability
> benjrblant
04/22/2019 at 10:24 |
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Why is your work giving you a gaming laptop and where do I apply :P
zeontestpilot
> benjrblant
04/22/2019 at 10:25 |
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I’m curious as to what your work is to have such a laptop, lol. I’m in IT, and I have a Thinkpad T480, which I absolutely
love.
i7-8650U processor (quad cores with hyperthreading), 32 gigs of ram, and light as a feather. Only maxed it out once, lol.
facw
> zeontestpilot
04/22/2019 at 10:37 |
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My company has been buying those, but frankly the T480 is a bit large for my tastes. Bring me the X280 or better yet, an X1 (with 1440p screen please). Our IT buy what works best for them though rather than what the user wants though. My current laptop is pretty sad though, it’s an X250 that wouldn’t be that bad except they decided to buy them with 1366x768 screens instead of 1080p ones, which really limits it when not connected to external monitors.
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facw
> benjrblant
04/22/2019 at 10:39 |
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I would be really annoyed if my work gave me a machine that heavy. Maybe you need all that power, but even in that case I’d prefer to have an ultraportable and a desktop I can remote into.
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benjrblant
> zeontestpilot
04/22/2019 at 10:41 |
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I’m a design engineer, we regularly use ACAD, Inventor, Rhino, and a few other 3d softwares, often multiple instances of each at the same time. Some CNC programming, lots of 3d printing and mesh modeling.
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benjrblant
> Aremmes
04/22/2019 at 10:42 |
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There’s about 1/8" of key travel. The keys feel... mushy. Feedback is somewhat vague and operation is near silent.
I cannot stand the RGB backlight.
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benjrblant
> ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability
04/22/2019 at 10:43 |
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lots and lots of cad!
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benjrblant
> facw
04/22/2019 at 10:44 |
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I requested something lightweight but IT is required to provide a pc with certain mininum specs per the CAD department and apparently nothing smaller fit the bill? i dunno. Not super happy about having a 12lb machine, but very happy about having a fast machine.
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zeontestpilot
> benjrblant
04/22/2019 at 10:48 |
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I figured it had something to do with the graphics, and not the computer itself. To my knowledge, Lenovo has sort of phased out dedicated graphics in the recent laptop offerings. Of course, that may be wrong, lol.
BeaterGT
> benjrblant
04/22/2019 at 10:51 |
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I might as well hand crank my laptop in comparison to that thing. How much does it weigh?
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zeontestpilot
> facw
04/22/2019 at 10:52 |
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Really? I feel like the 14" screen is a nice size, not too
big and not too small. I’m not sure on which screen I have though, since I have RHEL on mine. Looking it up, it seems i have a 1920 x 1080 (16:9) resolution
, with a 60.01 Hz refresh rate.
Tapas
> benjrblant
04/22/2019 at 10:53 |
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Get a trolley bag with that. I don’t envy your back if you’re gonna be slinging that around.
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ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability
> benjrblant
04/22/2019 at 10:54 |
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I can does CAD! TBH my workstation is a beast right now. 364GB RAM, 8GB Quadro 5000P and 2 (TWO ) Xeon Gold 6148 (20 cores each @ 2.4 GHz )
:D
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Aremmes
> benjrblant
04/22/2019 at 11:02 |
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You need this, then:
Classic 104 White Buckling Spring USB
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benjrblant
> BeaterGT
04/22/2019 at 11:04 |
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10.2 freedom units, or 4.62kg.
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facw
> zeontestpilot
04/22/2019 at 11:04 |
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The T480 isn’t terrible, but it’s still 30+% heavier than an X-series laptop or my personal laptop. And if I can get 1080p on the 12" I don’t have any need for 14" (except to get that 1440p). My personal machine is a 13"er with a 3200x1800 screen, though that’s a bit extreme so I scale it to an effective 1440p.
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benjrblant
> Aremmes
04/22/2019 at 11:06 |
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Ooh, like that. I dunno about $90 though.
But I do really like the vortex vibes:
https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_detail&p=3923
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benjrblant
> ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability
04/22/2019 at 11:06 |
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jesus
bob and john
> ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability
04/22/2019 at 11:08 |
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good christ is that RAM a typo? I hope both for yes and no....
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ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability
> bob and john
04/22/2019 at 11:12 |
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Yes, it was a typo, its 384 :DD Also, its 16GB for the Quadro
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Aremmes
> benjrblant
04/22/2019 at 11:12 |
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Mind you, there are much more expensive keyboards out there that still don’t come close to a Model M.
That Vortex keyboard seems interesting. If your CAD work involves many keyboard commands but not a lot of typing, then I can see that being more comfortable to use than a standard keyboard.
This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja:
> benjrblant
04/22/2019 at 11:15 |
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What kind of battery life does that puppy offer?
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benjrblant
> This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja:
04/22/2019 at 11:25 |
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I’ve not had a chance to test it but coworkers say around an hour running all of our usual cad applications.
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bob and john
> ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability
04/22/2019 at 11:39 |
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that is bordering on offensive jesus.
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ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability
> bob and john
04/22/2019 at 11:44 |
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EngineerWithTools
> ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability
04/22/2019 at 11:55 |
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Do the two processors help you ? For 3D parametric stuff, the consensus seems to be “nope”, as things like constraint matrices don’t solve in parallel. Processor and RAM speed, along with video, control.
I suppose there is an argument that two can run full-out more before starting to throttle, so help maintain speed.
FEA and CAM processing, however, is a different story. (If you pay for the multi-processor capability.)
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ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability
> EngineerWithTools
04/22/2019 at 12:01 |
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I do FEA, so yes, they do help. Although it really depends of the load balance ratio for each analysis if all the 40 cores will be useful or not.
Thomas Donohue
> benjrblant
04/22/2019 at 12:24 |
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Damn, I have a company issued 14" Dell and I complain about the size/weight....it’s svelte compared to that thing!
I’m contemplating a S urface Go 8/128 for traveling - it’s only really needed for email, MS Office apps, and some light Visio work.