Hi, We are considering buying this same laptop to run Rhino3D and Brazil on. Wondering what your experience is with 3D software with this laptop. Addi
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We have run multiple graphic and architectural software programs on the computer and everything has been working smoothly.
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it was a goodselection for me because I used older versin laptop og msi. only new laptops windows 8.1 is not good selection. I like winddows 7 . laptop msi with ssd is good selection and 32 gb ram is suitable for your 3d works. we chose it for 3d works especially. I hope this info is useful for u. if you have any special question about it, do not hesitate again.
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I do not know anything about the software you are asking about. I am an active gamer and this machine has taken everything I have thrown at it with ease, and I believe it will handle alot more. I play WOW and DIII on a regular basis. I hope this is some help to you.
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I run Revit and AutoCAD MEP CAD software on it with no issues. So far I am happy with the machine.
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Yes...i will be using it for 3d....the quadcore, speed, and ram will be strong. And is easy to upgrade ram to 32 gigs, thats what i will do . Should get my replacement tommorow and begin loading software and test it out.
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I didn't know they still sold this model; its roughly 2ish years old. I think you may want to look for a laptop with dedicated graphics.
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Alas, what the review actually says is: "The integrated graphics scored 739 in our 3DMark03 test (better than the MSI Wind NB's score of 606), and was even able to run the graphics intensive Second Life." This is hardly the same as "runs well". Compared with my HP laptops and desk top, SL is unusable on the Asus, with maybe 7-8 fps as indicated by another user below. It's still a nifty little machine for other uses.
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I do not know these specific applications however it handles complex games (first person shooters well). btw, i am selling an HP Elitebook 8570w i7, 16gb ram and 750gb hdd. 2 gb graphics. if interested, let me know.moving to a haswell based laptop with portability. elitebook is a powerhouse - should run autocad considering its graphics and memory. selling cheap if intersted.
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If you add an NVIDIA gaming card it does great. I have a 3D card purchased from Amazon. without any changes, each one comes with different cards depending on how they were received for refurbishment. You may luck out and get a gaming card.
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It runs Minecraft quite well for my son at full settings. It ran even better with the addition of 4GB of RAM. For me mass Exports in Lightroom of RAW files with parameter changes goes much quicker than with my Lenovo X1 Carbon with i5.
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I have a system built for Photoshop CS6. ASUS Sabertooth 990FX AM3+;AMD FX-8150; 24gigs of DDR3 Ram; PSU 750 and ASUS 2GB GDDR5 card. It performed as I expected. But what made it even more impressive was when I bought a second card and joined the two in crossfire mode. I was impressed how "smooth" it performed running Photoshop. It should be more than adequate for graphic editing with single card.
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E. Marcucci, I was had a similar situation where I wanted to run real Windows applications. I originally purchased Parallels because I really like the graphic implementation however after 2 unexpected crashes I ended up returning it. The biggest problem I had with Parallels is they have horrid support. Honestly, the support is what really did me in. When I posted to the Parallels I never got a straight answer from a Parallel employee. I ended up sending a private message to one I found and he was helpful but it was a little late. Additionally, e-mail support was terrible and could never get a straight answer about how to return the product. I went with VMWare and have been happy. I was able to successfully use VMWare converter that converted my old Thinkpad laptop to a VMWare image and dump it on the Mac. It work with it every day. My company only support Windows operating system and never had any problem with the converted image. This is one opinion but the choice is yours. Parallels lost a customer with their lack of product support. Thanks
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I have this model but it all depends on which model you get. Some come with a Core i3. I have the i5 model and I can play most 3d games on medium to high settings well.
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I am primarily using it with a professional hi-res monitor and photo work. While it certainly performs at this level, I believe you would want to go with a higher end model for 3D rendering. It will do the work, just too slowly for it to be practical in many cases.
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Very real. I run VirtualBox on this laptop with no trouble! Of course, virtual machines can not use more than about 900MB of RAM on this machine (I use 256MB with a FreeBSD virtual machine, but 900MB is good enough for OpenSuSE or Debian/Ubuntu using XFCE. Never tried GNOME, KDE, etc...)
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I'm also looking at this laptop myself. I've been wondering if it will run fine with Linux, and from the input here things are looking good! I'm looking to run Debian, probably the testing branch as it has a little more up-to-date kernel and software, but I'm also considering Arch. That distro is always on the bleeding edge so the most recent software should (hopefully) pick up every piece of hardware on this machine.
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No. Go for the ZX. It's a better option. The Recon3D series were not that great.
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It is an excellent desktop replacement laptop for its price. It has plenty of processing power and better than usual sound so it is good for games that do not push the video too hard. Unfortunately it uses the CPU chipset video (an integrated Intel HD Graphics 4600) which is very good as far as imbedded 3D video goes but I am not sure it is up to the cutting edge 3D performance needed by some of the newer high-end games. I do not think it has a slot to install a third party card but I could be wrong about that.
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I bought this laptop as a gift for my daughter. She specifically asked for this one. Though I am not " that computer savvy ", she is..As for " software..I couldn't give specifics..but, my daughter plays music, watches movies, on the web, does a lot of graphics. I'm sorry this probably doesn't help much..all I can really say, is , she loves hers and feels it far surpasses her last laptop. Good luck.
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Any update on this? I'm looking to buy this unit too but want to be able to watch 3D movies on it.