# Scan on laptop but process on desktop? **URL:** \ **Category:** POP Series\ **Created:** [January 8, 2025, 12:57pm UTC](https://forum.revopoint3d.com/t/scan-on-laptop-but-process-on-desktop/31950 "2025-01-08T12:57:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TomKatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e79b87/32.png) [@TomKatt](https://forum.revopoint3d.com/u/TomKatt)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 12:57pm UTC](https://forum.revopoint3d.com/t/scan-on-laptop-but-process-on-desktop/31950/1 "2025-01-08T12:57:09Z")
New Pop 3 Plus user here - just ordered my P3P and reviewing my pc gear setup. The scanner hasn’t arrived yet, but I want to begin getting things ready. While my desktop should be sufficient (I5-13600K / 64GB / RTX 4070 TiS), my laptop choices are either I5-1145G7 / 64GB / Iris Xe or Ryzen 7 4800H / 64GB / RTX 2060. I understand that the laptops are on the low end of recommended specs, so I’m curious if it’s possible to capture the scan on the laptop and then transfer that data or file to the desktop pc for processing cloud data. I have downloaded Revo Scan 5 and started playing with the sample file but I don’t think this provides the scenario I am considering. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance. ---
**Author:** ![MonsterMaxx](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.revopoint3d.com/monstermaxx/32/22736_2.png) [@MonsterMaxx](https://forum.revopoint3d.com/u/MonsterMaxx)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 3:06pm UTC](https://forum.revopoint3d.com/t/scan-on-laptop-but-process-on-desktop/31950/2 "2025-01-08T15:06:58Z")
You should be scanning on your fastest machine. It’s interactive, not like you can scan on one, then move all the files over to another and post process. I mean, it could be done, but I don’t think you are going to have faster results doing that. ---
**Author:** ![TomKatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e79b87/32.png) [@TomKatt](https://forum.revopoint3d.com/u/TomKatt)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 3:24pm UTC](https://forum.revopoint3d.com/t/scan-on-laptop-but-process-on-desktop/31950/3 "2025-01-08T15:24:41Z")
Thanks - I guess that makes sense. I was thinking that perhaps the processing during editing and combining mesh scans was the more demanding task and could be done later on the better machine. But if the scanning process itself is just as demanding there would be no benefit. Time will tell how well my laptop performs - most of my scanning will be away from my desktop, so I’ll have to consider investing in a better laptop if it’s performance becomes a limitation. ---
**Author:** ![MonsterMaxx](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.revopoint3d.com/monstermaxx/32/22736_2.png) [@MonsterMaxx](https://forum.revopoint3d.com/u/MonsterMaxx)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 5:33pm UTC](https://forum.revopoint3d.com/t/scan-on-laptop-but-process-on-desktop/31950/4 "2025-01-08T17:33:43Z")
I have a Dell Precision i9 w/ a Quadro a4500 & 64GB and it runs revoscan nicely. Looking forward to GPU support being implemented ---
**Author:** ![krofinski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f6c823/32.png) [@krofinski](https://forum.revopoint3d.com/u/krofinski)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 6:27pm UTC](https://forum.revopoint3d.com/t/scan-on-laptop-but-process-on-desktop/31950/5 "2025-01-08T18:27:00Z")
Hi, scanning with your smartphone is not an option?. It’s designed exactly as you imagine. Scan on the phone, processing on the PC ---
**Author:** ![PUTV](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.revopoint3d.com/putv/32/15302_2.png) [@PUTV](https://forum.revopoint3d.com/u/PUTV)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 8:11pm UTC](https://forum.revopoint3d.com/t/scan-on-laptop-but-process-on-desktop/31950/6 "2025-01-08T20:11:57Z")
You can scan on laptop or a phone and process it in desktop , I use win 11 tablet with POP3 and later process it on Desktop , the scanning quality will be the same, but the final processing always better and faster on desktop. ---
**Author:** ![PUTV](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.revopoint3d.com/putv/32/15302_2.png) [@PUTV](https://forum.revopoint3d.com/u/PUTV)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 8:15pm UTC](https://forum.revopoint3d.com/t/scan-on-laptop-but-process-on-desktop/31950/7 "2025-01-08T20:15:35Z")
> [@TomKatt](#): > > Time will tell how well my laptop performs - most of my scanning will be away from my desktop, so I’ll have to consider investing in a better laptop if it’s performance becomes a limitation. I don’t think you will need that, it works just fine on a phone as well. Unless of course you want to process it on a better laptop. The scanning will be not much better , it is designed to run just fine even on low ends laptops or tablets . ---
**Author:** ![greglwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@greglwood](https://forum.revopoint3d.com/u/greglwood)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 5:12pm UTC](https://forum.revopoint3d.com/t/scan-on-laptop-but-process-on-desktop/31950/8 "2025-08-06T17:12:12Z")
This is an older thread but I want to answer your question about why. My very expensive, large, power hungy desktop with the 15 devices (paper, scanner, two printers, usb hubs, mouse, keyboard, hard drives, router, etc.) attached to it is too much trouble to haul out to my Trackloader so I can scan for a new part I want to make to attach a camera and display to it. My laptop on the other hand, who runs off internal battery and no devices attached as keyboard and trackpad is built in is super easy. ---
**Author:** ![greglwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@greglwood](https://forum.revopoint3d.com/u/greglwood)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 5:14pm UTC](https://forum.revopoint3d.com/t/scan-on-laptop-but-process-on-desktop/31950/9 "2025-08-06T17:14:38Z")
I have a metrox. Can it be used with a iphone? There is no wifi on metrox. ---
**Author:** ![PUTV](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.revopoint3d.com/putv/32/15302_2.png) [@PUTV](https://forum.revopoint3d.com/u/PUTV)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 8:47pm UTC](https://forum.revopoint3d.com/t/scan-on-laptop-but-process-on-desktop/31950/10 "2025-08-06T20:47:21Z")
> [@greglwood](#): > > I have a metrox. Can it be used with a iphone? There is no wifi on metrox. You can’t use MetroX with a phone , it requires advanced computing power that phone can’t offer . It also do not support WiFI in general for the same reason . I suggest you use screen sharing from your PC to your phone to make the workflow much smoother , as it will allow you bigger distance to work if you don’t use laptop.