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The Costco laptop would probably be adequate but just barely. You really wouldn't be able to put much of anything but AM on it, for sure.
I would try to get at least 8gb RAM, a quad core Intel or AMD cpu, and a 1080p display panel. If you don't have a full keyboard with numpad, you will want a plug in USB numpad for AM use.
I don't know that I would want to try and use a dual core with 4gb, you might be ok with it at first but I think you'd become frustrated over time.
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This one has a number pad:
I'd recommend the Ryzen 2500U, 1080p screen and 8GB RAM as a bare minimum. That config comes in at just a hair over $500, at $529. It has a 65W power adapter which is much smaller and lighter than a desktop replacement laptop power brick would be.
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This question came up in Live Answer Time today and I thought I would post the official word from Hash (link is to store page):
So if you have an 8 core system, base AM may not make full use of all 8 cores however if you pick up an additional 4 or 10 netrender nodes for the nominal cost of $10 or $15, you can utilize the other cores as background render nodes.
So those of you contemplating Threadripper/Ryzen/Ryzen 3000 updates may find this useful info.
*EDIT: I should add, most programs are not fully massively-threaded aware yet. I expect that to change over time, but for right now Netrender is the best way to make use of those extra cores.
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Happy New Year!! <<<--- link to animation. Click on it to watch.
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all my fellow AM users.
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That's a different look, to be sure.
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In current digital funny-money news, Bitcoin has cratered to around $3000 per coin.
General Francisco Franco is still dead.
This search page on Slashdot would have anyone wondering "people thought this was a good idea...why?" in minutes:
https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=bitcoin
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2 hours ago, Wildsided said:
You're not the only one, Roger. From what I've read and from personal opinion, the general consensus among fans seems to be that this has been a very weak season.
Not to mention that the Christmas special has been bumped to New Years.
As for hitting her stride, the rumour doing the rounds is that both Jodie Whittaker and new show runner Chris Chibnall plan to leave at the end of next years season. So if that's the case she best be hitting it pretty fast.
WOW. They play up this whole "first female Doctor" thing and then she is leaving the role so quickly? Yeah I don't think that they are going to pull it out if she's only got one more season after this one. I didn't always care for Moffat's writing but I feel like they could have done some really interesting stuff with a female Doctor and instead we are getting these weak episodes. I'd say face her off against The Master/ Missy but they've had so many Master specific plots in recent history I don't know how that would work.
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Well so far we are what, like 6 or 7 episodes in? I don't know but so far I've not been terribly impressed, I am not sure when this Doctor is going to hit her stride.
Plus, the writing just seems *off* somehow, it doesn't seem like classic Who. Maybe I need to give it more time, but so far I'm not feeling it. -
So what you're saying is I shouldn't feel bad I'm just using regular RAM unless I need to start launching rockets into orbit.
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Is there really any benefit to using ECC RAM over regular RAM for an AM 3D workstation? Or is non-ECC RAM perfectly fine?
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To those of us in the US, Happy Thanksgiving!
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Anyone using a Threadripper system out there? If so, which model? How do you like it? How well does AM play with it?
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So far I like the new Doctor played by Jodie Whittaker, I think she will do well in the role.
I just can't help feeling that this was a weak episode for a season premiere. It seemed more like a middle of the season episode.
Anyone else have any thoughts? I know we've got some Who fans on here.
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I didn't realize he was 70, but that is starting to seem awfully young these days. I was just talking about him with a guy at work, I can't believe he is gone...everything I found about him that was recent online had mentioned he was teaching and had started a new studio.
I never actually met Mr. Vinton, but I've always enjoyed his work. There will be a void in the animation world without him.
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I decided not to get the crazy priced Titan and got a Gtx 680 4gig, which I’ll flash . . . Let’s see how it goes
For AM use you're probably better off not spending on the Titan, it just wouldn't make use of it. Other apps that use CUDA might, but unless you use a lot of CUDA enabled apps and it's not just a hobby but something you use to pay your rent, it probably doesn't make sense to spend that kind of money.
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I can't remember if I posted this before but this spoof is obviously referencing 2001:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeQi4zbT8fA
It's called Black Holes (warning: brief animated nudity ).
Apparently it is a pilot for a series but I've yet to see anything further by these guys using the same concept.
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Well the only 2 dramatic roles of his that I am most familiar with are Deliverance and Boogie Nights, those are probably his better "serious" performances that I can think of off the top of my head.
He did a lot of screwball comedies, the most famous of which would be the Cannonball movies. The outtakes from those alone are priceless.
I've also heard that White Lightning, Gator and Eastbound and Down are pretty good but haven't personally seen those.
And of course the Smokey and the Bandit movies, for whatever reason those didn't really appeal to me as much but most people would consider those iconic. It could also be that it has been so many years since I've seen them, and I've likely only seen the broadcast TV edit or maybe a version chopped up for basic cable, that I didn't get the best version.
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I'm not sure when he made this, but he must have known the end was coming soon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQESqhMMd8o&t=6s
Godspeed, Mr. Reynolds.
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2001 had some very groundbreaking effects for the time, stuff that had never been seen before. I found some information on on how various effects were done as well as behind-the-scenes information that was pretty interesting:
https://indiefilmhustle.com/stanley-kubrick-slit-scan-2001/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgNyCluIRhA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StZ2fmWYom4
There's a lot of good stuff if you're interested in how they made the film.
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More funny-money news:
I am so glad I did not "invest" anything in cryptocurrency. Between the fraudulent companies selling the mining ASICS, the exchanges getting hacked, and the sheer volatility of the different crypto currencies, I'm positive I'd have lost everything even if I got in early.
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Instant ray tracing sounds cool. As always, we wonder if that could somehow be natively used in A:M
That is the eternal question. Of course, as we've pointed out in the past, interactive real-time graphics is no longer the bottleneck, the bottleneck is the animator.
But it would still be cool to be able to make use of hardware like that.
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Here is the latest from Nvidia:
https://hothardware.com/news/nvidia-turing-quadro-rtx-ray-tracing
Bit rich for my blood, the cheapest card is $2300 and the most expensive is $10,000. I'm not sure what the shocked smiley is or I'd put it in.
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Having seen AC/DC more than once, I have to say they put on one of the best hard rock shows around. I saw them once in Milwaukee in '09 and twice again more recently I think it was 2013 and 2016 I saw them, both times in Chicago. I'd have gone to see them back in highschool but just couldn't swing it at the time.
Anyway, we are likely to only get tribute bands as Brian Johnson is retiring due to too much hearing damage, and Angus' brother Malcolm passed away recently. I had heard something about them finishing out some tour dates with Axl Rose singing and someone else subbing in for Malcolm, but I don't know what their long term plans are. My guess is they are either going to hang things up or it is entirely possible they are going to keep going until Angus drops dead, just with a different rhythm guitarist and singer.
On a slightly different note, there is an AC/DC tribute band that does bluegrass renditions of their songs called Hayseed Dixie. While I've never seen them I have heard one or two of their songs and it's definitely an interesting spin on your typical tribute band.
I don't know what Angus does to have that level of energy in his 60s, tons of cardio maybe?
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Yeah but Win 2k is much lighter on system resources than what Win 10 is. Win 2k I think will work with a minimum of 128 to 256mb RAM where Win 10 has a minimum requirement of 2GB. So Win 2k with 2GB is using much less of the total system RAM than a Win 10 system with 2 or 4GB.
2 cores is probably just fine for AM on the go but I'd try for sure to get a minimum of 4gb RAM and either an i3 or i5 dual core. Ideally you would want whatever cpu you get to have a fairly high base clock speed.