# Laptop recommendations

**URL:** https://forum.highend3d.com/t/laptop-recommendations/68680
**Category:** Archived
**Tags:** hardware-discussions
**Created:** [March 13, 2011, 1:56pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/laptop-recommendations/68680 "2011-03-13T13:56:59Z")
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### Author: ![mettam](https://forum.highend3d.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e19adc/32.png) [@mettam](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/mettam)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2011, 1:56pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/laptop-recommendations/68680/1 "2011-03-13T13:56:59Z")

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I am looking for recommendations for laptops.  
 If you know of anyone successful using Maya on a new/current laptop, could you please mention which laptop it is.  
 also any Custom components that were added.

Laptops seems so cheap powerful these days I would imagine virtually any laptop with the right graphics card could run Maya.&nbsp; Correct?

I would like to hear peoples thoughts on this subject.

Thank you

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### Author: ![joojaa](https://forum.highend3d.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@joojaa](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/joojaa)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2011, 2:04pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/laptop-recommendations/68680/2 "2011-03-13T14:04:14Z")

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> > Correct?

Wrong, laptops that are cheap are not powerful and laptops that are are neither cheap nor practical.

PS: theres something truly magical about laptops. Even if they look OK in specs they for some reason fail to deliver even half the performance of a workstation 1/2 the price for some reason. + Its not like you can get 24-32&nbsp; (prefeerably 2x that) inch laptops or be willing to carry one around. Also getting decent displays gamuts and 16 gigs of memory is quite rare on laptops.