topic Re: Laptop Hardware in Installation & update

Laptop Hardware

MG2 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 01:39:33 GMT

Hi all, I realize that has probably been asked but have been unable to find.

I will be upgrading to AC 28 and need a new laptop to run it. I was looking at an MSI Katana 15 HX B14WGK-248CA.

It is a gaming unit but does have an

Intel® Core™ i7-14650HX
Windows 11 Home which I will upgrade to Pro
NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 5070 Laptop GPU w/ 8GB GDDR7 VRAM
32 GB RAM

I work on both small and medium sized projects. I can also get a model with the RTX 5060 but not sure if the slightly lesser graphics card will make much of a difference.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Operating system used: Windows 11

Re: Laptop Hardware

mthd — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 03:35:02 GMT

Hi @MG2, You may have already had a look at these specifications but here is the link for AC28 general system requirements. They might help guide you.

https://www.graphisoft.com/resources-and-support/system-requirements-28/

Re: Laptop Hardware

scottjm — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 04:36:35 GMT

That looks more than adequate I would say for small to medium.
If the 5060 is a significant savings I’d take it. For only Archicad use the 5070 is probably overkill, but if you are using escape or twinmotion etc the 5070 is probably worth it.