On the other hand, I use a 10 year old macbook pro which I upgraded with 16gb RAM and a decent SSD. It routinely handles drawings with a few thousand nodes. Admittedly, rendering complex filters or editing thousands of nodes will lead to pauses and stuttering, but not enough for me to buy a replacement.
Memory and disk speed gave the best return on investment. Inkscape is a single-threaded application so multi-core processors offer little advantage unless you're running another number-crunching app simultaneously. Also, Inkscape can't avail of your high-powered graphics card (yet).
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HI all. I have been using Inkscape for several years and love it!
Sometimes I have to create rather large files that include many many nodes (hundreds if not thousands).
I am wondering if it would make any difference if I got a better laptop.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
J
I use a gaming laptop. It makes a difference with large files, rendering, and all the other programs that are hungry for ram and cpu.
On the other hand, I use a 10 year old macbook pro which I upgraded with 16gb RAM and a decent SSD. It routinely handles drawings with a few thousand nodes. Admittedly, rendering complex filters or editing thousands of nodes will lead to pauses and stuttering, but not enough for me to buy a replacement.
Memory and disk speed gave the best return on investment. Inkscape is a single-threaded application so multi-core processors offer little advantage unless you're running another number-crunching app simultaneously. Also, Inkscape can't avail of your high-powered graphics card (yet).
Thanks Paddy_CAD. In the past I always used a Macbook. I think I will go back to Mac.