Hello all,
I'm looking for a good laptop that will run programs like Blender and Maya well, but is also powerful enough to run emulators like Dolphin, Cemu, and possibly Yuzu smoothly. Unfortunately I am not very familiar with the different PC specs and find extremely different opinions on the internet. I have been on many websites that highly recommend laptops, but then has bad reviews on YouTube. Another problem is that the price/performance ratios also look pretty messed up to me.
Blender and Maya don't have to be extremely super fast now (e.g. very fast rendering). Just to a reasonable degree that you can create and animate reasonably complex models.
Important for me is that the emulation for Wii, Wii U and more is fast, so that I can play games in HD smoothly. 4K resolution is not that important to me.
The most important thing for me is that the game Super Mario Galaxy 2 runs smoothly in HD resolution on the Dolphin emulator.
The problem for me is simply that I never know for sure how well especially the emulators work. A Wii U emulator could still be slower on a PC that can play the actual PC games smoothly.
From one video I got that the laptop with the long name "GIGABYTE G5 GD-51DE123SD" is a powerful PC and even has a good price of 750 €, but I can't find any test videos on the Dolphin Emulator and Co.
I was also thinking about buying a Steam Deck, as it seems to be quite a bargain for the price and performance and even has a touchscreen, but it is unfortunately not really designed for Windows programs. Blender is available in the Steam Store, but I use a whole range of Windows-only programs.
What is important for me is that the emulators run great, like Dolphin Emulator smoothly in HD resolution.
So I wanted to ask if anyone has experience and knowledge about this and could help me.
Thanks in advance!
I'm looking for a good laptop that will run programs like Blender and Maya well, but is also powerful enough to run emulators like Dolphin, Cemu, and possibly Yuzu smoothly. Unfortunately I am not very familiar with the different PC specs and find extremely different opinions on the internet. I have been on many websites that highly recommend laptops, but then has bad reviews on YouTube. Another problem is that the price/performance ratios also look pretty messed up to me.
Blender and Maya don't have to be extremely super fast now (e.g. very fast rendering). Just to a reasonable degree that you can create and animate reasonably complex models.
Important for me is that the emulation for Wii, Wii U and more is fast, so that I can play games in HD smoothly. 4K resolution is not that important to me.
The most important thing for me is that the game Super Mario Galaxy 2 runs smoothly in HD resolution on the Dolphin emulator.
The problem for me is simply that I never know for sure how well especially the emulators work. A Wii U emulator could still be slower on a PC that can play the actual PC games smoothly.
From one video I got that the laptop with the long name "GIGABYTE G5 GD-51DE123SD" is a powerful PC and even has a good price of 750 €, but I can't find any test videos on the Dolphin Emulator and Co.
I was also thinking about buying a Steam Deck, as it seems to be quite a bargain for the price and performance and even has a touchscreen, but it is unfortunately not really designed for Windows programs. Blender is available in the Steam Store, but I use a whole range of Windows-only programs.
What is important for me is that the emulators run great, like Dolphin Emulator smoothly in HD resolution.
So I wanted to ask if anyone has experience and knowledge about this and could help me.
Thanks in advance!
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