A laptop for Game Dev

[Jaayne]

Budget (£1000): 

Country: UK

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Blender, Unreal Engine / Unity

 

Greetings LLT Forum 

 

Does anyone have any experience with game dev on a £1000 laptop?

 

This is something I am trying to get into, but my current setup is a 6 year old MacBook Pro and its not upto the task of anything past Safari, running the Unreal 3rd Person demo is around 5fps, Unity crashes when adding a terrain object and the blender performance is ......... I think you get the idea.

 

My budget is around £1000, I don't know where to focus my search, I not looking for balls to the wall performance but am looking for something that can at least run some 3D engines with workable performance 

 

Any advice would be great, thanks

 

[Niqesse]

Unity is not a very demanding engine, so I you should be pretty with 3000 gen Ryzen, or 9th/10th gen intel and 16GB of Ram.
When it comes to blender, it benefits greatly from L3-Chache size and single core performance for physic simulations. So I'd recommend at least 16mb L3-Chache for the CPU.
Depending on the platform (Oculus, Windows, iOS, Android) you can check minimum requirements.
For example:
https://support.oculus.com/articles/getting-started/getting-started-with-rift/rift-s-minimum-requirements/
I am using unity and blender too, and was up until recently using the following hardware:
CPU i5-7400
RAM 16GB (4x4) 2400mHz
GPU GTX 1060 6GB
Storage 1TB combined storage
The programms worked really well, CPU got a little slow for my taste, but the system was absolutely fine for development.

[Jaayne]

Perfect, this is exactly the type of advice I was hoping to get to get me started. Legend. Thank you