Best laptop for animation and vfx

[1234567890]

Hey guys
I want to replace my desktop with a powerful laptop for portable animation and vfx work.
I mostly use 3ds max-zbrush-after effect-premier-photo shop & some game work with unity 3d.
I thought about surface pro 3 for a while...but i don't know it will work for me or not.
By rhe way my budget is around 1000-1500$
Thanks for your help.

 

[Blazkowicz]

There's a contradiction between wanting a powerful computer and a constrained one, and this isn't just about the power budget. Memory and storage will be fixed, such as 256GB SSD and 8GB RAM and especially you can't ever extend the RAM.
That may become the biggest bottleneck, if you don't suffer heating problems from maxing out the CPU for long times.

Ideally you would be able to get a thick laptop with four memory slots so that the memory can be extended to 32GB (or add 16GB to a system with 8GB, to get a 24GB memory size) but it's hard to look for that feature, it seems you can easily get laptops with 16GB as the max memory only.

Surface Pro should be a fair bit usable but you would really have to not mind the limitations (and have Wifi 5GHz, USB3 storage or both).
I guess it's more at home with heavy document editing / publishing than animation work.

 

[Deleted member 13524]

I want to replace my desktop with a powerful laptop
(...)
I thought about surface pro 3

The Surface Pro 3 isn't neither powerful or a laptop. Where did the idea for a Surface Pro 3 come from?

 

[1234567890]

Yep ...after a while i undrestood.right now my best choice is lenovo y5070.do you think thats good idea?
I didn't saw any feedvack about using this laptop for animation and vfx......

 

[Deleted member 13524]

The Lenovo Y50 is a gaming laptop, and within your budget the gaming laptops will probably have the best hardware for compute-heavy tasks.
I would advise to switch the HDD for a SSD, or perhaps add one to the existing HDD.

 

[Blazkowicz]

I've seen there are several configuration variants (on lenovo's site).
The GPU (GTX 860M or GTX960M, I think they're about the same) is available with 4GB memory, you should go for that. That enables rendering complex 3D scenes on the GPU. Can be ordered with 16GB RAM and a 512GB SSD : that has everything covered.
That's a stupidly fast laptop there ; to be on the safe side get a cooling stand (for long renderings)

You may need to use an external calibrated display, at least once in a while to check the color grading