various Windows operating systems- what's the difference ?

[sugarwood]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

We do Aerial photography and mapping. It is churning on a project for an city in Oklahoma producing 3 inch resolution photomosaic of images we took from our Cessna 182T.



It will be a 17.5 GB Tif file as the first step of many other steps to produce a final image we send to the surveyor for him to put his stamp on it and mark up the invoice to sell to the city.



I have 256 Gig of Ram, 16 core i9 CPU, two high end video cards, two 2TB M.2 drives and a 15 TB RAID 5 all in the box.

Nice. What kind of software do you use for these projects?

[GH85Carrera]

Various mapping programs depending on the end Project. Skyline Mapping Software, Pix4D, and many others. One reason my post count is insane is I can get a project going and unless it really big project, just surf the web on the same computer. When we had a few monster projects this computer ran non stop for a week and was up to 210 Gig of RAM used, and the two video cards were hot, even with all the cooling fans screaming.

Most times, I just start a processing session, and let it churn, and surf over to Pelican. I have the task running on one monitor and Pelican on the other.

I regularly bump into the limits of file size with Photoshop and tif files. The mapping software will churn out monsters, and there is no easy way tweak the color balance or brightness.



This was a small part of one project.

[John Rogers]

Here are some details of the desktop computer I am running at home right now. The most intensive graphics I do is to convert my old vintage racing movies from my 914-6 or the the ones on VHS from my bicycle racing days.

- Motherboard is an ASUS 970 Gaming Pro with 16GB of RAM.
- CPU is AMD 8 core.
- Video is a nVidia RTX 2060 with 3GB RAM feed into a 50 inch Vizio flat screen TV. I just upgraded the video from a nVidia GTX 1050 as it had sound failure and the $200 price at Walmart for that Vizio a month or so ago was too good to pass up. My daughter uses the 38 inch Vizio when she comes over from Phoenix to help with my wife and she works from home.
- Drives are a 1TB SSD drive for the OS and Office and video apps. 4x 3TB SATA drives for data, images, videos, ETC. 1x 8TB USB drives for backup nightly. The backup drive is in a holder with 3x USB ports on top of the desk, very handy.
- Wireless mouse, keyboard and webcam are all by logitech. Great company.

So why so much power and such? I can work on school with the webcam, listen to Youtube Korean music, process and VHS tape and still have screen space left and use about 60% powder and actually enjoy what I am doing!

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by John Rogers

I guess I am a bit old fashioned but I don't really trust "the cloud" since I have NO idea where my files are, who sees them and how easily can I get them. Of course with "the cloud" you have to be connected to the internet or nothing can happen and there may be times when no network is available or I am in a shaky area or, or. So I tend to buy my PC for home use so I can disconnect if I want and the same with the last laptop I bought. I generally buy the "Pro" version of the operating system if it is Windows since Windows 10 works well at 64 bit version and make sure to get the most memory and fastest video system and if you get the laptop buy a 30 or 40 inch flat screen TV and run the computer via HDMI cable. It is much easier to see things with a big screen and they are cheap now. I would suggest a Logitech mouse with is much easier than the touch pad to work with.

I am not so old fashioned and don't trust the cloud. It is great for stuff like Amazon photos where it puts a copy up there, but anytime you are required to have an account you are susceptible to losing it. Plus, as we saw a few weeks ago with he storm in Cedar Rapids, many people and business were without proper internet access for several days. Our saving grace was most things are on prem so communication within the facility was not affected and out triple redundant internet was not hit so hard with superfluous bandwidth trying to call office to office or message office to office.

Go Win 10 Pro if you can and need Windows. Linux if you don't. Using a SSD will help immensely as well.

John, we had a spare 50" TV I used for a while and it was too big. I since switched to triple 27" curved monitors. Still large enough text for my old eyes and lots of real estate space.

[GH85Carrera]

I have two video cards. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 with 8 Gig of memory, and the main video card is the NVIDA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti with 11 GB of memory.

I could have 8 monitors all running at 4K resolution (3840x2160) but my wife would not be happy with the room full of monitors, and I can't imagine why I would need 8 monitors.

I do love my high speed internet connection. I uploaded a 528 MB file to my business partner in 2.5 minutes. Download is galled 1 GB, but in reality is is peaked at 940 Mbps and I typically got "only" 920 down and 35 Mbps upload.

[rfuerst911sc]

While doing some research I came across this laptop , seems to me it's a good bang for the buck . Thoughts ?


https://www.staples.com/lenovo-ideapad-3-17iml05-81wc-17-3-notebook-intel-i3-8gb-memory-256gb-ssd-windows-10-81wc0003us/product_24437941?tid=US&storeId=10001&AID=10921729&PID=806314&SID=1va73c133010d74d0442756b921fcf7d08&cvosrc=affiliate.cj.806314&cvo_campaign=Coupon&cm_mmc=CJ-_-806314-_-806314-_-10921729&CID=AFF%3A806314%3A806314%3A10921729&CJPIXEL=CJPIXEL&cjevent=d3c22dd30e4911eb836300990a240613

[masraum]

Sounds like a decent deal to me, but I'm out of the loop. Is the Lenovo consumer stuff reliable?

[nota]

Originally Posted by masraum

Sounds like a decent deal to me, but I'm out of the loop. Is the Lenovo consumer stuff reliable?

Lenovo was IBM consumer stuff BEFORE THEY SOLD

hard to think of a better corprat pedigree

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by nota

Lenovo was IBM consumer stuff BEFORE THEY SOLD

hard to think of a better corprat pedigree

We had a Lenovo laptop for 15 months. One day it was just dead. Could not even get to the BIOS screen or anything but two beeps. The only fix was a new motherboard, and that was almost as much as a new Microsoft Surface. So we went to the surface. It has taken a beating and works great.

We just removed the SSD hard drive from the Lenovo and recycled it.

[MRM]

I strongly prefer Lenovo, even their consumer products.

[sugarwood]

i3-10110U processor and 8GB are lower end.
Probably fine for you, but nothing great.
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