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General / Re: Time for new laptop, need advice.

« on: March 13, 2017, 06:11:30 AM »

Thank you for your comments. So then the Xeon mobile processors aren't really that effective? The Precision 7510 was able to max out at 64GB of ram.
I was leaning towards the Eurocom F5, I like the ability to upgrade components and it's more affordable than the Dell/AW units.

Thanks guys for your input. Now to wrap my head around Photoscan.

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General / Time for new laptop, need advice.

« on: March 12, 2017, 08:42:10 AM »

Please forgive me, I know this is another help with hardware but Photoscan keeps getting optimized for different hardware.
That being said, I would like to supplement my workstation with a mobile workstation to perform light (<150 x 20MP images) processing while on site. To be used for photogrammetric processing aerial surveys. 

Option 1
Alienware 15R3
i7-7820 HK
32 GB DDR4 RAM
GTX 1070 GPU

Option 2
Alienware 17R4
i7-7700HQ
32 GB DDR4 RAM
GTX 1070 GPU

Option 3
Dell Precision 7510
Xeon E3-1545 M V5
64 GB DDR4 RAM
Quadro M2000M GPU

Option 4
Eurocom F5
i7-6700K (Skylake desktop CPU)
64 GB DDR4 RAM
GTX 1070 GPU

All options have ram maxed out at capacity, would equip Samsung 960/951 m.2 SSD.

The AW 17R4 is huge, prefer to stay in the 15.6" form factor, but has better cooling and better panel.

The Precision makes more sense for purely a workstation perspective however from what I understand the Pascal cards outperform the previous generation Quadro cards significantly. I'd like to know if there's any advantage to the Xeon mobile chip as it'd be bearing the processing load considerably.

I'm trying to not spend money where I won't necessarily see a proportional return.

A huge thanks in advance to all who lend their opinion.