Recommendations for laptop

[Uva381972]

I'm getting ready to purchase entry Mill Mastercam. I have the recommended specs for a laptop. I've gotten a quote from Dell it's pretty pricey. Does anybody have any recommendations for other laptops. Also do I need to but the one who hat Mastercam recommends or is that overkill.

[civiceg]

What type of work will you be doing, wire frame, lots of surfacing, or dynamic tool paths? Are you paying for it or will your work be purchasing it? 

[m98custom1212]

MSI GHOST PRO 4K that's I use but it was brand new left over paid 1K and then brought another 500gb SSD

 

Plus I have a desktop 

[Sean Leonard]

You'll probably have better luck posting to the industrial forums. However I can give you some recommendations, we often get similar questions here at Verisurf.

 

First off, I would suggest staying away from NVidia GTX cards, they're almost exclusively found in gaming laptops.

 

At the very minimum, I would recommend Dell's base model 5510 series. It's definitely entry level, but at the least they're including some DDR4 memory, a thunderbolt port and USB 3.0. The M1000 is also a decent start and should keep you going for a while. The price Is $1400 and I'd highly recommend upgraded the hard drive to a Solid State drive with at least 256gb. The biggest selling point is the form factor, the 5510's are crazy thin and portable. http://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/productdetails/precision-m5510-workstation

 

As far as "future proof" laptop configurations go, considering affordability, I'd have to recommend a sager workstation. They're not the prettiest laptops but the specs they offer for $2,100 are unmatched by anyone I know of. http://www.sagernotebook.com/Workstations/

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

You can get by fine with a decent CPU and a good GeForce gaming card.  Despite what some may say they work great for Mastercam unless you get into huge detailed models and assemblies.  Sure the Quadro cards are better, but they're also much more expensive and for most applications you won't notice the difference.  For CPU for most purposes performance per core is more important than core count, and you'll want at least 16GB RAM.