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3d rendering on an ultrabook is it possible the answer obviously is yes as long as a computer in mind meets the minimum spec requirements of the program being used sure it can be done usually those spec requirements are bare-bones if you will but an ultrabook like this obviously isn't designed with 3d modeling in mind so how well does it perform to start off let me remind you of this laptop specifications this is the Dell XPS 13 which I reviewed right here check it out if you haven't already it's sporting an i7 7700 ukb Lake ultra-low power processor and 16 gigabytes of ddr3 L it's also fitted with a 512 gigabyte nvme SSD and the 3200 by 1800 qhd+ takes their display I bought this laptop fully loaded and for a good reason I wanted to be able to edit videos on the fly without a hitch now this isn't the best laptop you could buy for video editing on the go obviously there are things that are frankly much bigger that would do a much better job but obviously those are heavy their bulky they don't typically have excellent battery life so an ultrabook is a compromise I'm willing to make for the sake of portability as well as having 9 to 10 hours of battery life with this thing it's actually very good and as for video editing it gets the job done I like to compare the soldier book to a desktop grade I three PC the very first PC I ever built featured in I 340 158 gigs of ddr3 and a gtx 750ti we've come a long way since then in terms of desktops and laptops but I was frankly able to edit and render comfortably on that I three and that's about the Sun experience I have with this Dell XPS 13 many of you have been asking why I got rid of my MacBook I owned it for about four months before giving it to my sister for Christmas she absolutely loves it I'm glad I gave it to her she's probably making better use of it than I ever would I was just at that point getting into the whole OSN experience you know just getting used to using Macs in general but then I found out that for my last semester here in college I was going to need a window space laptop in order to run many of the programs that I'll need for my senior design project and among those is Petrille it's a 3d modeling software you can actually do way more than that on there but for the purposes of this video it will allow you to create a 3d model of a chunk of Earth that you'll essentially be drilling into or just surveying what you're looking at here is essentially my senior design project as of it as I have at this point it's in wireframe divided into three layers and littered with faults and cross-sections the first thing I want to point out is how much RAM the program is using you see we're around five to six and gigabytes it's recommended that any 3d modeling system have at least 16 gigs 32 is ideal because it's probably more than you'll ever need but I would say that 8 gigabytes in any Ultrabook would be cutting it pretty darn close you probably couldn't run anything else in the background I was able to do that no problem here thanks to that 16 gig buffer it was also interesting to observe CPU utilization while this 3d map is being rendered usage never approached 100% not even close frankly even while we were manipulating the 3d object which tells me that the software was trying to rely on a dedicated graphics processor which this ultra book does not have I should also mention the Petrelli is designed with CUDA technology in mind which is by Heisenberg ran the entire simulation without any hitches whatsoever but of course the more objects you throw into the 3d plane the more taxing it will be on your system latency is definitely an issue at times especially when new objects are to be rendered in the 3d window but it's not something I would call unbearable the cool thing is even when the professor is showing us how to do something in patrol in class I can just pull on my laptop and run through the steps alongside him that's exactly what I was hoping for that's why I sold the MacBook and I'm glad that the XPS 13 can deliver now if you're wondering about how other 3d modeling programs behave on ultrabooks like this I would say that it depends largely on that programs optimization and how much RAM you have I really mean this when I say it's 16 gigabytes is the very bones minimum I recommend for any 3d modeling computer especially in ultrabooks it isn't designed with that in mind you might get by with 12 gigabytes of RAM and it does matter if it's ddr3l or ddr4 you won't notice much of a difference between the two so don't really take that into consideration but I would say 12 is that's cutting it really close eight gigabytes just don't count on doing anything else in the background maybe Spotify or Pandora or in the background that's about it I do hope at least this video helps clear up a few of your concerns about ultrabooks and they're processing potential they are compromises keep that in mind you're buying a laptop with a smaller footprint at the expense of specifications you could buy a 15.6 $800 laptop with better specifications than my Dell XPS 13 that's just a fact check this one out right here or here point made if you ask me ask yourself what you expect your laptop to be able to do well and then go on from there don't go into this expecting a 12-inch Ultrabook to be able to play games at 60 fps and 1440p it's just not going to happen the technology isn't there yet we can't fit dedicated graphics chips and quad core HQ processors into form factors that small at this point and even if we could the heat output would be extreme needless to say everything in life is some sort of compromise and the XPS 13 was one I was willing to make if you liked this video be sure to give it a thumbs up give it a thumbs down if you feel the complete opposite click a subscribe button if you haven't already I'll catch you in the next video this is Sal's our studio thanks for learning with it