6 replies to this topic

[Murray Loewen]

I'm wanting a compact 2-in-1 laptop so I can be more mobile with work but still have the capability to run SoftPlan moderately well. Most models I've researched don't even come with a dedicated GPU, but the MS Surface Laptop Studio does. Has anyone used SoftPlan on one of these and what was your experience? I realize it won't provide anywhere near the performance of a desktop or full-size laptop spec'd for SoftPlan, but how well does it handle it?

 

MS Surface Laptop Studio Specs:

- Quad-core 11th Gen Intel® Core™ H35 i7-11370H Processor

- NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3050 Ti laptop GPU with 4GB GDDR6

- 32GB LPDDR4x RAM

- up to 2TB SSD

[Sam Morgan]

don't know much about that particular machine but I use a surface pro and surface book for years as my machine when traveling.  Both had plenty of power to do everything other than fully rendered 3D.  

[Keith Almond]

Haven't had any experience with that laptop, but those specs appear MORE than capable of running Softplan.

[John Jones]

I've been running the Surface Laptop Studio for a few weeks now and am quite pleased. 

[Dennis Asher]

Looks like a good unit.  I don't know if I could ever get used to not having a dedicated numeric keypad though. lol

[Joseph Smith]

Looks like a good unit.  I don't know if I could ever get used to not having a dedicated numeric keypad though. lol

 

Love my 9 key for speed of entering data.  Tiny screen would drive me nuts, my Alienware laptop has 17...that seems small, love my stack of 24's

[Thomas Davis]

I previously ran Softplan on a Surface w/ detachable keyboard and it ran just fine.
I always used a dock station so had a full keyboard and multiple monitors though. I agree tiny screen is un-usable.