Hi, I don’t usually write things like this but I thought it might be helpful for someone else. I wanted a small laptop that was easy to transport, so I bought an Elitebook 14, I was so impressed I thought what would happen if I tried UE5 I assumed it would be awful how wrong was I.
I’ve now been using this for 6 months and its been great I primarily create for console / handheld and its perfect because it runs UE5 so well.
Pros:-
My Threadripper giant rig builds UE5.6.1 from source in 22 minutes this little laptop does it in 1 hour 4 mins, but thats still so impressive and I don’t build the engine that often.
I have 64gb of 8000 mt/s memory and i’ve allocated 8Gb to the iGPU Radeon 890M, I set the editor to 30fps and thats my setup, its so good for detecting slow downs in my design, previously I would build on my high spec rig and then test on lower specs but now I do it as I go along I grab builds frequently on to this little laptop and test and address issues, its been stable and totally useable for 6 months.
I use it on battery for hours and its silent no roaring fans, sometimes the fans ramp up but even then its like a big rig in eco mode.
Cons:-
Lets be sensible its a small screen and its not going to replace a high spec setup but I use this 50 percent of the time, and never get frustrated.
Anyway I’ve been so impressed I thought id share my experience.