Laptop recommendations for motion design and VFX?


#1

I am planning to buy a laptop. My budget is 1816 USD. It will be hard for me to go beyond that. I want to do VFX and motion graphics work in Houdini and Cinema4D. I cannot afford a PC right now as my lifestyle involves staying out of home and lot of commuting.

Currently I have shortlisted following laptops.

MSI Katana 15, Intel 12th Gen. i7-12650H, 40CM FHD 144Hz Gaming Laptop (16GB/1TB NVMe SSD/ Windows 11 Home/Nvidia GeForce RTX4060, 8GB GDDR6/Black/2.25Kg), B12VFK-299IN

ASUS ROG Strix G16 (2023) Gaming Laptop, 16” 16:10 FHD 165Hz, GeForce RTX 4070, Intel Core i9-13980HX, 16GB DDR5, 1TB PCIe SSD, Wi-Fi 6E, Windows 11, G614JI-AS94
https://a.co/d/74ADVlj

ROG Strix G18 (2023)
G814JZ-N6035X
NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4080 Laptop GPU
Windows 11 Pro
13th Gen Intel® Core™ i9-13980HX
ROG Nebula Display
18 inch, QHD+ 16:10 (2560 x 1600, WQXGA), Refresh Rate:240Hz
2TB PCIe® 4.0 NVMe™ M.2 SSD

ROG Zephyrus G14 (2023)
GA402NV-0005
NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4060 Laptop GPU
Windows 11 Pro
AMD Ryzen™ 7 7735HS
ROG Nebula Display
14 inch, QHD+ 16:10 (2560 x 1600, WQXGA), Refresh Rate:165Hz
1TB PCIe® 4.0 NVMe™ M.2 SSD

Benchmark information source

Please give suggestions.

I am a beginner in motion design. I am still in learning stage. The idea is to earn good amount of money with doing basic motion design works, build up a solid portfolio, then buy a PC later that I can use solely for rendering when I come home.

Sharing some artists profiles. I aspire to do the kind of commercial work that they are doing.

https://www.instagram.com/media.work/

https://www.instagram.com/markfancherfx/
https://www.instagram.com/gn.romain/
https://www.instagram.com/nickmedukha/
https://www.instagram.com/subframe_studio/

https://www.instagram.com/thanu_lee/

Are MSI laptops durable and well respected in the motion design art circuit?


#2

Hello, this is Gulshan Negi
Well, In view of your spending plan, consider PCs from legitimate brands like Dell, HP, Lenovo, or ASUS that proposition models with the particulars referenced previously. You might have to track down a harmony among execution and compactness reasonably affordable for you, as elite execution workstations can here and there be heavier and have a more limited battery duration.
Thanks