Metro Y Pro Laptop purchase

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Hi there!

I purchased the metro Y pro scanner last year and I’ve been slowly introducing it into my engineering business. I’m trying to expand into motorsports and it would be a major advantage to be able to perform a 3d scan at the clients garage/workshop. Right now I have to use my gaming PC at home and it’s not a great practice as it’s turning my bedroom into a workshop.

Thus, I have decided to buy a laptop specifically for scanning. I’m probably going to use it for CAD design and general business too, while I’m at it, but scanning will be its main purpose.
I’ve spent almost a full week doing research on the subject of which laptop is going to work for me and I can’t make up my mind. I come here with hopes that maybe you guys will be able to help me out. It’s gonna be a big purchase that has to last for years, so I mostly decided against a gaming laptop due to reliability and support concerns, but if it’s the only way to achieve scanning performance then I may have to reconsider.

The two main contenders are:

  1. Dell Pro Max 16
  • Intel Ultra 7-265H
  • 64GB RAM
  • RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell GPU
  1. Lenovo Thinkpad T1G (Roughly 20% more expensive than the Dell)
  • Intel Ultra 9 285H
  • 64GB RAM
  • RTX 5070

I couldn’t find any reputable information on the performance differences of the two graphics cards for 3d scanning specifically. The pro card is obviously worse in gaming, but I have a PC for that. I work with solidworks so having certified drivers and ECC vram is a bit of a plus, but I’m mainly interested in scanning performance. If those cards were desktop, then the choice would’ve been easy, but both are laptop versions, so weak to begin with, and the 5070 is almost surely not going to run at full power, because of the power supply of said ThinkPad not being too powerful.

If the performance between the two was within 10% of eachother I’d lean towards the Dell, as it’s cheaper, but if the pro card is as bad as some sources say, then I’m either gonna have to get the ThinkPad, or get a gaming laptop like the Lenovo Legion and hope it can last a good few years and not break instantly after the warranty ends.

What are your thoughts? Do you have any experience with laptops using those gpu’s together with the Metro Y Pro or a similar scanner?

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To my knowledge avoid the Blackwell GPU. People have had a lot of issues with their drivers and revoscan. Historically Revopoint software favors gaming GPUs. A mobile 5070 will perform well with the Metro Y Pro. I have a Lenovo legion with a 275hx and a 5070 and it performs well.

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Hi @Blockrock

Revo Metro takes advantage of the gaming card not the computing , get yourself a good gaming card starting with RTX 4060 as you will already reach the maximum frame speed with it using GPU acceleration, avoid any Quadro type of card they are not made for this requirement .
If you need the other card for other purpose then make sure your CPU power is equal at least to i9 14th Gen or better to reach full frame speed without GPU acceleration.

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Thank you for the tips.
I was afraid of that being the case.
I really want a pro-grade laptop for the better warranty / support and repairability, but those have been increasingly hard to find with a gaming GPU. I think that ThinkPad T1G might even be the only current one.

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That is true , since last year almost everything is vanished for good price , everything got much more expensive , I grab last December one of the cheapest laptop with recommended system and after that the prices jumped up like crazy , so definitely hard to find what you really looking for and if you find, it is so overpriced that is basically not worth it.