Is this laptop good for using maya on it? What about animating and rendering?
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I'm running maya 2013 on mine. So far, I can tell you the biggest drawbacks of using maya on the y510p for me have been the lack of a second screen and the fact that you will basically be required to use a usb mouse since the trackpad won't be able to handle it. But I'm guessing you already know about those. The graphics card holds up pretty well, even while using viewport 2.0, and I've been rendering using Octane which utilizes both GPUs for a pretty solid performance. I haven't done any big renders pushing the CPU, but I imagine it'd work about what you'd expect for an i7. Also, this has been my first laptop with a number pad, and it has made life so much nicer for this type of work. All in all, it's very solid. You could probably find a laptop that could do better in maya, but it would also probably be huge and very expensive. I'm very satisfied with the performance of mine in this regard. Did you have any specific questions?
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As Levi has said, you will likely need a second monitor for use with reference material. Additionally, this is a laptop that is built for gaming so it should be able to handle the workload pretty well. And as far as the rendering is concerned, make sure hardware acceleration is at the highest setting, and you also might want to terminate the nonessential applications that are running in the background. Even though memory shouldn't be an issue when it comes to rendering, anything that needs a sudden burst of CPU usage will disrupt it. Just don't terminate "Mayabatch.exe" though, as that is the process that is handling the rendering of your animation. As Levi has said, you will likely need a second monitor for use with reference material. Additionally, this is a laptop that is built for gaming so it should be able to handle the workload pretty well. And as far as the rendering is concerned, make sure hardware acceleration is at the highest setting, and you also might want to terminate the nonessential applications that are running in the background. Even though memory shouldn't be an issue when it comes to rendering, anything that needs a sudden burst of CPU usage will disrupt it. Just don't terminate "Mayabatch.exe" though, as... » Read More As Levi has said, you will likely need a second monitor for use with reference material. Additionally, this is a laptop that is built for gaming so it should be able to handle the workload pretty well. And as far as the rendering is concerned, make sure hardware acceleration is at the highest setting, and you also might want to terminate the nonessential applications that are running in the background. Even though memory shouldn't be an issue when it comes to rendering, anything that needs a sudden burst of CPU usage will disrupt it. Just don't terminate "Mayabatch.exe" though, as that is the process that is handling the rendering of your animation. « Show Less
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You simply cannot beat this Lenovo for the price for such Maya work. Apple laptops are twice the price and are even more limited than this so perhaps you could consider a desktop otherwise. (You mostly pay for the name and screen technology.)This machine does extremely well with Adobe, meaning very large amounts of vectors and shading. Very memory-intensive. Other lesser PCs and Apple computers just give the hourglass... Even my late-2007 Mac Pro can 'just' handle it, not bad for a very expensive system.
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Whould this laptop be a good choice for useing Softplan house drawing software? Also for editing and storeing videos and pictures and web searching?
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you must be fairly new to editing. i recommend understanding (google) color calibration (on your equipment), and color correction (in your images/video). that being said, i have installed the Adobe CS6 Master Collection and primarily edit photographs in Photoshop. i'm happy to report this laptop handles all Photoshop tasks very decently, although much slower than what i'm accustomed to on my desktop. i have not done any editing using Premier Pro but i expect about the same. built with a core2duo processor, which, although powerful in it's own right (i can play blurays and bluray rips [35-40mbps video @1080p] on this laptop like a breeze), it's still relying on Intel 4000 graphics. this notebook does not have a dedicated graphics card and has 4Gb of RAM. all that being said, this laptop is an ideal balance between price vs. performance. as a photo editor, i need no more for portable photo editing. i have a Colormunki Photo that i still haven't used to calibrate my display but i'm sure i'll have no problem creating a custom profile on this laptop for on-the-go editing when proper color is also critical. if you live in the US, and have some way of getting to a Fry's Electronics, i'd wait until they have this model on special. i got mine for $269.99 (+ Cali tax) in October 2012..
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It does not come with the laptop but if you have a license then sure you can run it there. The laptop is not beast at performing and is easily overrun in specraces by current smartphones (comparable with 2 year old Samsung Galaxy SII) so you won't be able to run rendering or any other CPU or Memory intensive work. It is strictly for easy and low power use.It freezes when I try to send more or bigger files on FTP through FileZilla ;)
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For a non-gaming laptop, it actually games pretty well. I've played Civ5 and Guild Wars 2 on mine and it does fine. It gets a bit hot on the underside when you have been at it for a while but overall, pretty good laptop.
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for heavy video editing? I would have to say that you're going to need a computer with a better graphics card. This computer is all well and good for mild gaming and regular video editing however if you're going to use this computer strictly for video editing you might want one with a better graphics card
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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 have used this laptop with AutoCad, Adobe Design Suite, Sketchup, Blender, and NetBeans IDE. It performs great with all that software and doesn't even heat up like my last laptop did running the same software. Can't go wrong with this. Touchpad is cumbersome but you can disable all the touch gestures and features and just have a plain old touchpad. Or you can always do what I did and just buy a usb optical mouse. So far Skyrim and Crysis 2 looks and runs way better on this laptop than they did on Ps3 and Xbox. You won't be disappointed.
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I run CS 4 on it without a problem. When I try running programs that are more graphically intensive, it gets hot and the battery life is greatly reduced. It's not a high powered GPU. All that said, it's been a solid laptop. I've been pleased.
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I use it both for gaming and all my adobe also. I use it for video editing, digital art, music, etc. Can get a little warm on lap so suggest a laptop board of some type.
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If the graphics card is a NVidia GTX 650 Ti or higher, like my computer, it should support Maya autodesk.
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The computer does well for Second Life, which is a very demanding game. I have for overca year bow and have been very pleased. it is a real workhorse.
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NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M graphics card is the video card it has. if you want to watch video or play games, then i would highly not recommend this laptop. but if you are going to use it for programming, work, and or other none intensive applications then this is a great heavy duty laptop.(its even better to mess with its amazing features such as water draining system, active air protection, hard drive shock protection etc.
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I never used 3D games and movies on that laptop as I use it more for work (as a designer) Sorry that can not answer.
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The unit uses an i3 Intel processor, 4GB Ram and a 500GB HDD. I think you would be disappointed with the graphics as it uses an integrated Intel chip and not a separate graphics board which would be better for gaming speeds and better resolution. I am using an Astronomy program on my i7 with 6GB Ram and two 120GB SSD's. This program will not fully function on my Asus but I can run some basic features. Hope this helps.
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You would have to check the requirements, specially in regard to the GPU/3D video requirements, but in my experience it runs well even very heavy business and development software, like Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate, but you'll have to check if the video requirements are up to standards for games.
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The next step for graphics is 4k. Which has been extremely difficult so far. So I would think this laptop will be safe for a few years