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We have a Ailenware "laptop" that is a monster. It has two video cards, 4 hard drives, and only Andre the Giant cuold fit on his lap with an way to shield the heat.
Go for all the memory you can stuff in there, and lots of hard drive space. We generate huge 3dml files and point cloud files, as in gigabytes. If he is trying to edit or work with large files, he will want all the memory he can get. We have one 128 GB ram computer that pegs out the ram on occasion. Memory is cheap and no one ever said "I have too much RAM or hard drive space".
Files will only get bigger and more complex in the future.
And I totally agree with the desktop advice. Laptops suck to work with as a workstation. At least get a separate monitor and keyboard for the laptop, but a desktop for real work and a the laptop for transportability is the way to go. And lock it down with strong passwords to use it.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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