tallkien Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 Hey guys, I'm looking for recommendations for a good Linux laptop that can run houdini comfortably. Cost no bar...Company"s sponsoring thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Visual Cortex Lab Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 I'm on Ibm/Lenovo Thinkpads since a while now ... I've got 4 of 'em .. two loaded with Linux.. t43p.. and t60p... both with FireGL. I've used Fedora, Suse and now Ubuntu... I'll not change to something else for a long while I guess... I'm more than happy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doc Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 I did a dual boot (vista/ubuntu) on my sony viao and it seems to be playing well with houdini so far. L Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 If you can stand the ugly then the thinkpads are supposed to be great. Apparently the new high end Dells are good too (ie solid). I'm still gathering up the courage to install Ubuntu on my macbook pro . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aracid Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 I'm still gathering up the courage to install Ubuntu on my macbook pro . me too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kodiak Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 (edited) Go for it I just did it properly (I tried before and it was working ok but I never got all the bells and whistles working before). I have a generation 3 MBP (with santa rosa + nvidia), so I used a combination of these two wiki pages (except the audio was working out of the box and I skipped couple of things). https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MacBookPro https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MacBookPro/SantaRosa I also installed pommed to set screen and keyboard lighting (compilation needs some extra dev libraries to be installed, but quite simple to do) As a side note I suggest to do a backup on an external USB/Firewire drive using Superduper! on OSX (the free version is enough for this), and make sure it's bootable from the external drive. It works perfectly with Houdini, but I will still keep a copy of OSX around for daily non-houdini stuff. Edited November 18, 2007 by kodiak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kodiak Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 Oh, btw..this is not to say I would suggest MBP as a good Houdini laptop for corporate use. If you need a mobile workstation, you're better off with an IBM or Dell. MBP is better for using OSx as a main system and occasionally trying/learning stuff under linux/windows. It works, but there are better and supported ones out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aracid Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 well running houdini with fusion on a mac pro, its a sin but it works. its actually quiet impressive how with multiple desktops u can skip around seamlessly between the different os's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graham Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 It's all about the triple boot baby. Yeah! Except Vista is trash and I need to get rid of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peliosis Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 Dells are ok. I have precision M70, never have any problems with it and remember houdini running on SUSE for a year without any problems. Well...up to v10.1...after update EverythinG went weird and I thrashed the bastard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tallkien Posted November 23, 2007 Author Share Posted November 23, 2007 Yeah my Boss is trying to push an MBP on me, but I'm just a tad concerned about houdini's performance, but i sure wouldn't mind actually, So i'm going to try installing Ubuntu on my my firends MBP first just to test the waters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kodiak Posted November 23, 2007 Share Posted November 23, 2007 I don't think you're going to have issues with performance on the MBP, it's just not designed for running Linux full time. Also, I didn't manage to get that kind of battery life I can get on OSX. It's about 4 hours or so with Better energy savings settings and turnning down the backlight while on Ubuntu I made sure all the power management stuff is working properly, wrote custom scripts to regulate my power use, fan speed..etc and still can only get up to about 2 hours. So if you're planning to use it a lot on the go (which I suppose is impossible running a 3D app anyways) than you might be better off with some other systems (but I'm not sure if it's an OS issue or an OS thing specific to this laptop). cheers, Andras Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ofer Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 Im about to install ubuntu on my MBP also. Just waiting for an external drive for backup. Anyone tried using the new ubuntu 7.10 with houdini? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbukovec Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 I tried it with 7.10 64 bit, and it works awesome. Usually i'm on xp 32, and 64bit ubuntu really makes the difference. Not to mention that tyeh finally made installing nvidia driver a breeze. When You first log on just go to the restriced driver menu in the system menu and click enable, it will automatically install the driver and all You need to do is to reboot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitallysane Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 Anyone tried using the new ubuntu 7.10 with houdini? Works like a charm. Dragos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kodiak Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 Same here, 64bit Ubuntu 7.10 on a MBP generation3 (santa rosa nvidia). It doesn't install the nvidia driver by default so you need to add the _new_ one using the package manager, but apart from that if you follow the links I've posted before, it works perfectly. I was thinking about creating an image for this laptop ready to install 3d apps and post it on my website, but I need to look into the licensing part of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ofer Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 Great. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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