I work using Structural Analysis software , some Civil cad 3 D , and some other 3 D modeling . I don ' t actually NEED a quadro but I would really appreciate a laptop with a high end CPU a 6700 HQ just won ' t cut the deal , nice build quality , good support , to be portable cause I travel between cities and don ' t have access to my desktop all the time , and to have at least 56 hours of battery life . The CPU workloads are pretty high , and it needs to be cool and last with some hours of workload , and projects rendering . The best machines for that kind of work are workstations , but I would also like to game a little bit on them and the performance of a quadro M 1000 M or M 2000 M is not good enough for me my budget don ' t let me pucharse a higher quadro card without compromising the CPU .