basically i am looking desperately over then next 3 days (so fast replies please) to buy a really good laptop in UK that will last me for university. lately i have found a few with good specs but i have no idea what graphics card would be best for me, i will use maya 2008, shake zbrush 3ds max various other things and whole adobe suite currently i have a compaq 1.66 dual core 2 gb ram. im thinking of gettin a... Dell xps 1730, mesh gx700 extreme t9, rizeon m 571, or any that you can recommend with better functioning graphics for what i can do( i dnt know much about proffesional hardware) i want to be able to render on it, i have been doing this on current laptop and its been ok so a new one should be much better. and hardware render, id also like to be able to press play when theres a particl emitter and have it play. instead of skipping 50 frames and taking 2 minutes to do that.
ok the specs are: all have T9300 2.5 GHZ, 4gb ram 320 gig hard drive and 3 have 17 inch 1920x1080 screens thats nice. basically its the graphics card thats gona sway me, is it best to get a 8600gt or dual 8700GT and thats about 300 more but it has a few more features and a lil travel remote in one of the slots-just nice toys for a gadget freak. or go all out and have a laptop with dual 8800GTX??
ok now onto prices
8600m GT is on the smaller screen 15.4 and is 1284 pounds
dual 512 mb 8700m GT is 1532
8800m GTX is 1686
dual 8800m GTX is bout 1770
thankyou so much for your help, please tell me whats the best offer and what will do what i want and last a long time