Hello Ms Ludmila Menendez.

I can recomand you one of the best laptops in the market today:

Laptop ASUS ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 SE GX551QS-HB024R, processor AMD Ryzen 9 5900X pana la 4.60 GHz, 15.6" IPS Anti-glare, RAM 32GB, 2TB SSD ( 2 x 1TB ), NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3080 16 GB, Windows 10 Pro - in Romania is almost 4000 Euros but it worth.

Hi! For image processing MAC is always a good solution. For windows the minimum requisites should be intel i7 and 16 GB RAM, I leave you here a selection of Leonovo that might help you: https://www.pccomponentes.com/portatiles/intel-i7/lenovo

Hi Lumila,

I do analysis of micro-CT (3-4 GB DICOM sets) and synchrotron CT (loading 12-18 GB data) on my laptop: Dell XPS 15 with 32 GB ram, 1 TB SSD, Intel Core i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60 GHz, and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 graphics card. It works well. The extra RAM is useful as extra head-room for calculations/ manipulations. This is not THE BEST laptop, but i have found it practical for my needs and i do quite a lot of image analysis these days.

A good place to start with specs is to consider the size of our datasets (in GB) and if you are using commercial software, the minimum recommendations of the vendor.

In principle, the more the better. But best check with the vendor of your equipment and software, the graphics card recommendations might be different, especially when looking at GPU processing. Use a SDD, as data transfer speed is also crucial. Some algorythms might be multi threaded, some might not. More cores may not always be better that fast cores.

Dear Lumila,

For mobile WS I would suggest to rely on HP or DELL machines, especially in a professional environmente, both for to the quality of the components and for the customer service they provide. As a general thing, and if your budget is quite high, I would like to suggest you to check in the hp store where you will find a page for personalize your WS.

Of course, it depends on the CT data you will need to handle but if I understand your future work, you will be working on microCT data, which is quite demanding in terms of RAM (consider that the size of the microCT you are analyzing should fit inside the RAM, so that for a 30gb file, you will need much more than 30 gb of RAM).

At present, I am working with a HP Zbook 15 g4 (already with 64 gb of RAM and a NVIDA quadro 2200m with 4 gb of DDR5 RAM), but it is already getting old and currently you can purchase much better solutions with up to 128 gb, 8gb of dedicated RAM and other top notch features.

Let me know if you need any further help and don't esitate to contact me via DM :)

Best wishes,

Alessandro

MacPro

You might be restricted on Mac Pros concerning the maximum RAM, only from 2019 they allow more than 128gigs. And some professional software will not run on Mac. Or not all of it...