Hi,
V5
I have on trial a Dell laptop (Inspiron 17 5749) which has an Nvidia GeForce card which I know Nvidia is a recommended safe bet for Rhino, but found that the display is atrocious with an unevenly lit screen and brightness changes with slight head movement, even perp to screen sees a 30% brighter region at base and at top, its black is more like 80% black.
Colours are 30% lighter at lower screen, or upper depending on if one moves a few inches in ones seat. This is bad screen build , not the Nvidia.
The current suggested laptop (Toshiba S50-B-15N) giving supposedly a decent screen experience has an AMD Radeon R7 M260.
Checking this on:-
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=Radeon+R7+M260&id=3030
it scores dismally.
I read :-
The consumer ATI cards are generally fine but require certain Rhino settings to be adjusted to solve well documented display issues.
I am getting a gut feeling about AMD , one of get Nvidia if possible !
My first PC made for Rhino had an ATI Quadro and after many issues this was replaced with a GeForce 9800 and all was well.
Can anyone recommend a laptop available to UK with a screen that gives even illumination throughout and where black is black. and the vid card is rock stable and without careful tweaking for Rhino ? I also now understand that an IPS screen is not search over but search begun, good and bad uses of IPS technology exist. I am also told that IPS suffers from viewing angle issues, then I get told that my superb monitor is also IPS.
I am also advised that OLED is better if one can find that technology now, its all gone downhill I am told.
Totally bemused now.
My price limit is £600 as this laptop is a secondary tool.
Steve