High end laptop for school

[TriPunk]

Hey guys first post and one that means a lot.  I was just accepted to college for "Video Game Production" a day befor the course starts.  I have already done 2 years of animation at another school that required me to get a mac book pro (mid 2010 17" i5, 8gb ram, geforce gt330m 512mb) but now i need a computer that will hold its own.   i have a desktop that i just finished building (amd 9590, asus crosshair V formula Z, 2x strix 970gtx 4gb and so on) so needles to say that a laptop will not be my main rendering machine more just when I'm out or at school.  

 

So what i need is a laptop that can run 3DS Max, MAYA, Photoshop, Illustrator, Unity5, and so on and so forth.  I have been looking at the Lenovo Thinkpad P40 because of the pen touch screen made by wacom but I'm not sure if the Quadro M500M  will be enough for what i am doing.I would like it to be a 2 in 1 so i can use Photoshop easily on the train.  Any ideas or suggestions are very much appreciated.  money is not realy an issue but if i can stay below 2000 that would be cool too.

[ToniBamboni]

Zenbook 305

LenovoY700

Surface???

[jjar35]

Hey guys first post and one that means a lot.  I was just accepted to college for "Video Game Production" a day befor the course starts.  I have already done 2 years of animation at another school that required me to get a mac book pro (mid 2010 17" i5, 8gb ram, geforce gt330m 512mb) but now i need a computer that will hold its own.   i have a desktop that i just finished building (amd 9590, asus crosshair V formula Z, 2x strix 970gtx 4gb and so on) so needles to say that a laptop will not be my main rendering machine more just when I'm out or at school.  

 

So what i need is a laptop that can run 3DS Max, MAYA, Photoshop, Illustrator, Unity5, and so on and so forth.  I have been looking at the Lenovo Thinkpad P40 because of the pen touch screen made by wacom but I'm not sure if the Quadro M500M  will be enough for what i am doing.I would like it to be a 2 in 1 so i can use Photoshop easily on the train.  Any ideas or suggestions are very much appreciated.  money is not realy an issue but if i can stay below 2000 that would be cool too.

check out MSI's line of laptops.

[don_svetlio]

Lenovo Y700
MSI GE62/72
Dell Inspiron 15 7559

Those have the cooling needed for heavy duty work

[crystal6tak]

Hey guys first post and one that means a lot.  I was just accepted to college for "Video Game Production" a day befor the course starts.  I have already done 2 years of animation at another school that required me to get a mac book pro (mid 2010 17" i5, 8gb ram, geforce gt330m 512mb) but now i need a computer that will hold its own.   i have a desktop that i just finished building (amd 9590, asus crosshair V formula Z, 2x strix 970gtx 4gb and so on) so needles to say that a laptop will not be my main rendering machine more just when I'm out or at school.  

 

So what i need is a laptop that can run 3DS Max, MAYA, Photoshop, Illustrator, Unity5, and so on and so forth.  I have been looking at the Lenovo Thinkpad P40 because of the pen touch screen made by wacom but I'm not sure if the Quadro M500M  will be enough for what i am doing.I would like it to be a 2 in 1 so i can use Photoshop easily on the train.  Any ideas or suggestions are very much appreciated.  money is not realy an issue but if i can stay below 2000 that would be cool too.

Welcome to the forum!

 

What's your budget?

 

Surface Book sounds like exactly what you need. It's not cheap though. Click here for the review of it.

 

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