Affordable laptop for running Capturing Reality software

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Hi,

Can anyone recommend a suitable laptop for running Capturing Reality software? I’m looking to spend around £750. Also does anyone know how critical it is to have a Nvidia graphics card with 16GB of RAM and 1024 CUDA cores?

 

Thanks

Sam

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NVIDIA graphics card is mandatory for depth map calculations, but you can work on alignments on any Windows machine.

The cheapset laptop I could find a few years ago was a small ASUS UX32L with a 740M - slow, but works well. Was around your budget.

RAM is mostly used at alignment, so 16GB should be enough on small projects with not so many pictures and resolution (RAM usage is related to pictures resolution and count), but I wouldn’t recommend to go under this.

 

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If I were you, I would try to find a laptop with a GTX 1050 and 16GB of RAM (or you take a 4GB and you upgrade it, if possible).

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The MSI GL72M (GTX 1050 - 8GB of RAM, upgradable) seems to fit your budget. Just buy an extra 8GB of RAM.

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Thanks very much for your suggestions Jonathan. That’s very helpful.

I went for this model, though I realise ssd storage is small. Do you think its critical to have a 1tb storage hard drive or is 256gb ssd enough?

https://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/msi-gl62mvr-7rfx-1269uk-core-i5-7300hq-8gb-256gb-ssd-geforce-gtx-1060-15.6-9s7-16jbe2-1269/version.asp

My other option is this model:

ttps://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/msi-gv62-7rf-1216uk-intel-core-i5-7300hq-8gb-1tb-128gb-ssd-gtx-1060-6gb-1-9s7-16jbd2-1216/version.asp

 

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Yes, you are right, I forgot to mention that RC eats up space ! (cache)

So the faster and bigger the better. only SSDs.

 

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Hi Jonathan,

 

Thanks. Just to clarify you would recommend buying the laptop with smaller SSD and 1tb hard drive? 

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I would recommend going on the 256 GB SSD.

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Ah. Ok

I was concerned that wouldn’t be enough for all the software programs I use-meshmixer, Netfab. But you think I would be able to manage without hard drive storage? I just thought I might run out at some point and then be stuck. You seem to suggest that the programs run much better off ssd than hard drive?

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the main reason is that SSD disks are faster

EDIT: corrected typo

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Do you think a Gtx 1050 would be suitable to run Capturing Reality even though its under cuda core spec suggested?

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GeForce GTX 1050 should be fine, but I can see it here just for the desktops, not for laptops