Looking for some expert advice before I buy a new notebook for resolume and other graphics adventures.
I am looking to buy a new laptop for my live video performances as well as content creation. I do multi screen video mapping and interactive installations and and usually need to use multiple video outputs and inputs. Recently I have been using a mini desktop box to get the power I wanted but I am tired of hauling it around.
Question #1
The Lenovo Thinkpad W530 claims to support 4 external monitors through its displayport 1.2 connection and VGA port.
I need to know if that is compatible with Resolume multi screen output.
Can I hook up 4 projectors from the display port and span projections across them ? having four screens without any extra hardware would be amazing !
Question #2
The W530 has a workstation graphics card NvidiaQuatro K1000 2 gig Vram . I know this card is not as fast as the latest gaming cards but I was hoping that since resolume uses OpenGL it would be more useful to have a workstation card like the NVQuatro . Can you say is a gaming or a workstation card better for Resolume ?
There is an SSD drive option that I want to get too. I am sure that will give very good playback and file load times.
The system I was thinking about getting:
model - Lenovo Thinkpad W530
cpu - core i7 3720
Ram - 16 gb DDR3
gpu - NVIDIA Quatro K1000m
Storage - 128 GB SSD + 500 GB 7200rpm HDD
Windows 8 64
I hope you have time to answer my few questions. It will really help me decide.
All the best
vj guy