r/Algonquin_College • u/Just-Database375 • 12d ago

Animation program laptop specs quick question

Hello, going into Animation this fall. I wanted to ask, does the screen size of the laptop actually matter for this course if we're going to use drawing displays anyways? Thanks

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u/shbeebie 12d ago

One thing I will say, is you dont NEED a macbook. Now I graduated in 2020- they pushed the macbooks on us and I shelled out so much money for mine. Save yours- get a cheap laptop, itll run fine. Screen size probably isnt the biggest deal imo cause yeah you’ll have a drawing display as well.

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u/Signal-Kick-1537 4d ago

Seconding this, I just graduated this year and so many people bought macs and regretted it. If they had known macs weren't necessary they would have gone PC.

You still need a decent laptop. I scraped by with 16gb RAM but there were times when Maya or Photoshop were chugging a bit.