July 15, 20196 yr What would be the very best laptop available to fly P3d SMOOTHLY and at HIGH settings? I know this is difficult, but I would love to have your expert opinions on this. I have a super powerful state of the art JETLINE SYSTEM desktop computer (under 1 year old) and it is fantastic for P3d. I would want to have stutter free smooth FPS performance from a laptop as well. Thanks in advance for your opinions. Stan
July 17, 20196 yr I bought an Alienware Area 51M laptop a few weeks ago...it's pretty close to the cutting edge, as it uses desktop 9th gen CPUs (e.g. i7-9700K/i9-9900K) and your choice of (again desktop components) RTX2070 or 2080 GPUs. Oddly, the RAM is hard-clocked to a skunky-slow 2400MHz at CAS 17 (ugh), though it's deceptively misadvertised as "16GB at 2666 MHz" memory (still skunky slow).. It's got a G-Sync IPS monitor that's very nice, and about as large as laptop monitors get. It was very noisy...the cooling fans sound like a dustbuster running on the desk. It also runs very hot, even at stock speeds with the 9900K. I can't say I'd recommend it. Despite being a top-of-the-line $4K unit, it was still quite a compromise due to noise, small display, concerns about heat/temps on the CPU/GPU etc. And unless you speak Punjabi Inglish and are *very* tolerant of cookie-cutter long-distance support from a guy in Calcutta reading from a script, the off-shored support is dismal. I ended up with a bad video chip, and the support gauntlet was a real, prolonged test of my patience. The support experience was bad enough that I bagged the idea of a replacement-in-kind or anything else from Dell/Alienware for the foreseeable future. All that said, I'm not sure the goal of good performance from a laptop with P3D is realistically attainable. I am now building a portable LAN box computer instead (we travel by car or RV on longer trips). Regards Bob Scott | President and CEO, AVSIM Inc ATP Gulfstream II-III-IV-V Sys1 (MSFS20+24/XPlane12+11): AMD 9800X3D, water 2x240mm, MSI MPG X670E Carbon, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, nVidia RTX4090FE Alienware AW3821DW 38" 21:9 GSync, 2x4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2x2TB Samsung 990 SSD, EVGA 1000P2 PSU, 12.9" iPad Pro Thrustmaster TCA Boeing Yoke, TCA Airbus Sidestick, Twin TCA Airbus Throttle quads, PFC Cirrus Pedals, Coolermaster HAF932 case Sys2 (P3Dv5/v4): i9-13900KS, water 2x360mm, ASUS Z790 Hero, 32GB GSkill 7800MHz CAS36, ASUS RTX4090 Samsung 55" JS8500 4K TV@60Hz, 3x 2TB WD SN850X 1x 4TB Crucial P3 M.2 NVME SSD, EVGA 1600T2 PSU Fiber link to Yamaha RX-V467 Home Theater Receiver, Polk/Klipsch 6" bookshelf speakers, Polk 12" subwoofer, 12.9" iPad Pro PFC yoke/throttle quad/pedals with custom Hall sensor retrofit, Thermaltake View 71 case, Stream Deck XL button box Sys3 (DCS/P3Dv4/ATS/ETS): AMD 7800X3D, MSI MPG X870E Carbon, Noctua NH-D15S, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, EVGA RTX3090 Alienware AW3420DW 34" 21:9 GSync, Corsair HX1000i PSU, 4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2TB Samsung 970Evo Plus, TM TCA Officer Pack, Saitek combat pedals, TM Warthog, TM RS300 FF wheel/pedals, Coolermaster HAF XB case
July 22, 20196 yr Author I suspect you are right about the feasibility of a laptop for P3d or flight simulation as a whole. THAT'S exactly why I posed the question. I haven't ever heard of a laptop meeting the rigorous standards necessary for smooth, fully-featured flights in our hobby. Stan
July 25, 20196 yr Author Since there are no more responses to this thread, I can assume no one has come up with such a machine. Stan
July 26, 20196 yr For sim use you need performance. Performance requires cooling, and there’s the problem. Then your stuck with what, 17’ screen?. Luke Pype
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