Laptop - current suggested models and/or specs

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Craig DIckson asked Jun 30, '22 Ben Wilson edited Jul 5, '22

Laptop - current suggested models and/or specs

Hi-

The previous threads on this topic are a few years old, and Moore's Law is still more or less in effect so ... does anyone have any suggestions regarding current laptops that perform well with FlexSim? I'd be interested in specific models (corporate standard is Dell or HP but I do have flexibility), but also in suggested specs. I sure wouldn't mind if it could use the RTX engine... I won't quite say that money is no object, but it isn't the first consideration either.

Current laptop is 6 years old so I am starting to worry about it's reliability. It is an HP Z-Book 15 with an Inter Core i7 @2.7Ghz, 16GB RAM, Nvidia Quadro M2000M

Thanks in advance for your advice.

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FlexSim 22.1.2

laptop suggestion

Answer 1 · 2022-07-01T01:52:36Z

Patrick Cloutier answered Jul 1, '22 Ben Wilson edited Jul 5, '22

I think a Dell XPS 15 from this year or last with 32gb RAM, i7 and an RTX card is one of the best laptops you can get for FlexSim.

That’s what I’m getting when I change mine in a year or two.

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Patrick Cloutier commented · Jul 01, 2022 at 01:56 AM

And this page details the min and recommend requirements:

https://docs.flexsim.com/en/22.1/Reference/SystemRequirements/SystemRequirements.html

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Ben Wilson ♦♦ commented · Jul 05, 2022 at 11:14 PM

@Craig DIckson

In addition to Patrick's specific recommendation, and to expand on his link to our system requirements, you can always find our latest recommended system requirements at https://flexs.im/sysreq#recommended, which link is a forwarder that will always redirect you to the latest version of the requirements.

The minimum requirements are just that - the minimum necessary to test FlexSim in a basic way.

The recommended requirements should allow most users to build a good size/complexity model and have a great experience with their PC's performance while building and running their model.

That said, systems can be spec'd much more aggressively than our recommended requirements, and given the option, I'd definitely go for:

a 20 or 30 series Nvidia RTX card
32, or even 64 GB of RAM
the latest and greatest CPU

Your desires for size and weight will play into what can be crammed into the laptop chassis, so everything is a balancing act, along with cost.

There are a lot of great options out there. Good luck!

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