[Neil Frye]

Yeah, I have come to realize that for the $2,200-2,500 I would spend on a laptop that had everything in it, a laptop that would rock and roll and kick down all the doors and have the supported GPU card in it, it just didn’t add up.

Because I could build a desktop tower for approx. $1,100 tops, which would have more speed, power, ram, and storage and the proper supported GPU card in it. Then I could take the rest of that money and turn around and buy the XPS 15 for a little under $1400 which has enough in it to do a sufficient work load while on the road or in the hotel rooms.

Alex you made a lot of sense and thanks for helping me understand the GPU story behind adobe a little better. I did wonder why only a handful of cards were only supported..
It makes a lot of sense that the most expensive cards these manufacturers sell would be the only ones adobe supports. Because the little gamer kid would never buy these monster cards. The gamer kids would just crossfire (put two cards in their machine) two cheaper GPU gaming cards together to get the GPU speed they need. This Leaves these monster GPU cards likes the GTX and quatro sitting on the shelves with poor sale volumes and low profit margins. Looks like adobe agreed to be the niche market for these monster cards.

[Neil Frye]

“GTX 560m inside tho its not on the list”
See this is why I am not sure. Because it’s a laptop I don’t know if it’s worth maxing out the thing on all levels and making sure the GPU card inside it is officially supported…

I haven’t tested out the GTX 560 or 540 cards but I have read from people who tested them out and they say the hard ware acceleration can be turn on with these cards. Like in the XPS 15 if power cord is plugged in it will crank up to do what i need.

Has anyone else tested the XPS 17 or XPS 15 out. The specs on these laptops are almost the same as the precision and thinkpad but the GPU is obviously not supported.

[Neil Frye]

Basically I want to know what they mean when they say not officially supported. Does that mean some time in the future this card will be supported or does it mean that this card will do the job effectively 80% of the time? or What?

[Neil Frye]

I found this in another thread and thought it was interesting. perhaps someone could spread some light on the pros and cons of going with a setup such as the XPS 15 laptop.
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/3/912733
“With GPUs that aren’t officially supported yet will work for MPE hardware acceleration:

– Toshiba Qosmio X775-3DV78 – $1900 with GeForce GTX 560M 1.5GB
– Toshiba Qosmio X505-Q8104X – $1900 with GeForce GTX 460M 1.5GB
– Dell XPS 17 – $1,893.99 (YMMV) with GeForce GT 555M 3GB
– Dell XPS 15 – $1,769.99 (YMMV) with GeForce GT 540M 2GB
– Dell Alienware M17x – $2,913.00 (YMMV) GeForce GT 460M 1.5GB

The XPS 15 (thanks Chris Knight) is a fantastic deal starting at just $899 with the GeForce® GT 540M 2GB graphics.”

what do they mean it will work with MPE hardware acceleration.

[Neil Frye]

Sweet thanks Alex ill check that thinkpad out.

what do you guys think about this computer

Dell Precision Mobile M4600, Genuine Windows® 7 Professional, 64-bit

Processor Intel® Core™ i7-2720QM (Quad Core 2.20GHz,6M cache) with Turbo BoostTechnology 2.0
Memory 8.0GB, DDR3-1600MHz SDRAM, 4 DIMMS
Graphics NVIDIA® Quadro® 2000M with 2GB GDDR3
LCDs 15.6″ HD(1366×768) LED-backlit, Multi-Touch and Stylus
Primary Storage 500GB 7200rpm Hard Drive

[Neil Frye]

Any other laptops that you could suggest that have any of these graphic cards in them?

[Neil Frye]

The alien ware M17 has this card in it. I believe that is the same as the GTX 580 mentioned in your list?

2GB GDDR5 NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 580M

Looks like there is a laptop out there that has the card I need.

[Neil Frye]

Thank you. That page link answered all my questions.