Best Simulation Laptops?

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Jason Merschat asked Feb 27, '18 Sebastian Hemmann commented Mar 8, '18

Best Simulation Laptops?

I am curious what the consulting community would recommend as the best laptop for simulation. I am running several machines, but find that some bog down with any real level of complexity. I have an MSI GT-80 that has been highly customized that can handle large jobs but it is a bit impractical to haul around on airplanes and through security. Curious what succeses we have found from our traveling consultants. I suppose there are hosted solutions that could work, but I can rarely rely on client internet access let alone VPN support and so forth.

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FlexSim 18.0.2

consulting laptop

Answer 1 · 2018-02-27T16:21:05Z

Ben Wilson answered Feb 27, '18 Sebastian Hemmann commented Mar 8, '18

@Jason Merschat,

We've had good experiences with the Gigabyte Aero 14Wv7 (Amazon link). They are thin, light, portable, but still reasonably powerful for its portability, including a GTX 1060, along with Intel's previous generation i-7 CPU, and up to 32GB RAM.

We've purchased 3 of these and have been very happy with them.

This model is coming up on a year old - hoping for a refresh soon :)

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Jason Merschat commented · Feb 27, 2018 at 04:42 PM

Hi Ben! Thanks for the suggestion. This also looks like a decent machine. Better on price then the MSI for the new Gigabyte Aero 15x that is comparable. Smaller SSD drive in the stock offering, but a nice option. Thanks for the advice!

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Ben Wilson ♦♦ commented · Feb 27, 2018 at 04:47 PM

It is worth linking here the system requirements found on FlexSim's product pages (FlexSim and FlexSim HC), as well as to a general discussion of our Recommended System Requirements.

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Sebastian Hemmann commented · Mar 08, 2018 at 05:54 AM

I also found the Gigabyte Aero 15 very cool and decent. Sadly my one had a failure and thatswhy I had to contact the Gigabyte Support Team within the first days. Their answers took allways very Long and were not at all helping. In the end I made a deal with the reseller to return the machine to the reseller (and not to Gigabyte although we were in waranty) because Gigabyte did not accept the Notebook has a failure!

After all of this we decided to not go on with Gigabyte, because we need working Notebooks and fast Support, if there is anything wrong.

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Answer 2 · 2018-02-27T17:00:46Z

Clair A answered Feb 27, '18

Hello Jason, I am travelling about 70% of the time, and I always use the same laptop whether I am at the office or not. My laptop is a custom model that I purchased 2 years ago from an IT provider in France, it has a 17.3'' screen, an Intel Core i7-6700 (3.4 GHz) and a GTX 980 (not the mobile 980M, the desktop one... on a laptop). Quite heavy (5 kgs) but I don't really care since I always travel with a rolling tote like this:

In the 1st compartment I store the laptop, and in the second compartment I have the laptop charger + 3D mouse + oculus + sensors + touch. Since I also show the virtual reality for almost every trip.

(model of the luggage: https://www.amazon.fr/Samsonite-CM0212523-Spectrolite-Rolling-Tote/dp/B01EJWAQBW)

What might be different with your situation is that I travel mostly by train, which is perfect to work: plenty of space even with a large laptop, electric outlet, free internet access. When traveling by plane I can't work since it's impossible to squeeze the laptop in such a tiny space.

At security checkpoints, half of the time the officers inspect my luggage, but I have been used to it. I remember one day an officer told me that she believed I had 2 laptops on top of each other... I answered no, it's just 1 single laptop with the thickness of 2 laptops ;-)

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Answer 3 · 2018-02-27T15:53:30Z

Steven Hamoen answered Feb 27, '18 Clair A commented Feb 27, '18

@Jason Merschat In our office we use the laptops that can come with a gtx1060. We feel this is a fairly good trade off between graphics power and price and portability. A good example is a MSI GS63VR with a weight less then 2Kg, thin and enough power (16Gb, I7 7th generation, SSD and HD). Actually we have a company in our area that uses clevo backbones to build laptops with these specs even cheaper then the MSI's (who are not really cheap)

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Jason Merschat commented · Feb 27, 2018 at 04:04 PM

Feel free to share that info privately if you are unable to openly recommend your machine builder. I appreciate the advice! I am hiring some folks to support our growing FlexSim consulting practice and want to onboard them with the right laptop to get the job done...economically!

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Steven Hamoen Jason Merschat commented · Feb 27, 2018 at 04:29 PM

@Jason Merschat No problem to share the info but the company has a dutch website and for us it is perfect. If something is wrong I just go their tech center but for you that would not be useful, that is why I didn't post the link. But here it is: BTO link. This way you can at least compare specs and prices

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Clair A Jason Merschat commented · Feb 27, 2018 at 05:36 PM

My laptop is also based on a Clevo backbone.

It's a 2-year old laptop so it's not on sale anymore but here is the link FYI:

https://www.materiel.net/ordinateur-portable/materiel-net-berserk-mk6-uhd-17-pouces-sans-os-133830.html

As @steven.hamoen noticed, I also rememeber that when I was comparing prices, this custom clevo computer was way cheaper than MSI laptops with equivalent performance.

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