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  • For blender nvidia gpu is a the best for cycles as it has optiX support.

    If she does ONLY modeling and uses eevee renders without viewport previews then integrated graphics could work.

    If she wants viewport preview then dedicated GPU is a must. IDK how fares AMD gpu in blender as I didn’t have one for years.

    Some gaming laptops with dedicated GPUs need external kernel modules just to work if they even have one.

    My best bet would be to go for old gaming laptop.

    My second best bet would be to go for system76 as they have some gaming laptops















  • As far as I can see you could try to attach 1 ssd to SATA0 (it can dangle in the air) and 2 hard drives to SATA1 and SATA2 (They are capped to 300MB/s and should be attached to the case with screws)

    There should be space somewhere to put the drives as I can see in the specification. You will probably need to remove the CD drive.

    There is also a question if power supply has enough power sockets to attach to the disks. You could try to find eSATA -> SATA adapter to attach something to the last port.

    You probably won’t find the bigger case as motherboard isn’t standard size.

    I would probably try to upgrade to standard motherboard size but I would also calculate the cost of consumed electricity in a year vs cost of more efficient hardware.