Laptop Essentials

[The Bastard]

Aright So My Pc Of Five Years Is Startin To Fuck Up And Glitch All Over The Place On Me,shiut shuts down on its own in the middle of a recording session n shit, And Since Im Goin To Italy Next Summer, Im Def Gunna Eventually Cop A Laptop.im Gunna Use My Fucked Up Pc For Internet ,email,graphics And What Not, And Totally Dedicate The Laptop To Recording. I Know The Basic Shit I Need Like A Fast Cpu And A Big Hard Drive, But Is There Any Otherr Technical Info I Need To Know?Im Gunna Be Running Cubase And Reason On It. i basically wanna know like whats the minimum shit i need to have to run this software smoothly, pentium 2 ,3,4,? 1gghz 2 gghz?Any Laptops To Stay Away From? thanks guys and gals

 

[DJ Excellence]

Make sure you have a good external soundcard. ^^ It's a must for Laptops.

Pentium 4 , with at least 512 RAM
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[The Bastard]

Make sure you have a good external soundcard. ^^ It's a must for Laptops.

Pentium 4 , with at least 512 RAM
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whut about pentium 3 with 512 ram?

 

[50 cal]

whut about pentium 3 with 512 ram?

nah, a laptop is going to need extra power to efficently run recording programs. you should get p 4 with a 3.0 or higher prossesor. and like DJ Excellence said atleast 512, when you can up to 1 gig

 

[jkman82]

first thing you need to know about laptop essentials is to not get a laptop, but in your case with italy, why dont you cop an ibook?, unless you love pc, which theres nothing wrong with, going down the mac route isnt a bad idea if you have the $, definitly a p4 or amd turion 64 bit and higher

 

[The Bastard]

first thing you need to know about laptop essentials is to not get a laptop, but in your case with italy, why dont you cop an ibook?, unless you love pc, which theres nothing wrong with, going down the mac route isnt a bad idea if you have the $, definitly a p4 or amd turion 64 bit and higher

ya ibooks are out of the question, not because im emotionally attach to windows, just because of the price , ill do a search for some refurbished ones tho, thanks what do you suggest as minimum requirements for an ibook?

 

[Formant024]

For laptop go centrino instead of pentium, a faster hd could mean more noise and a slow HD can be sufficient enought to record a few inputs and remain silent. Stuff at least 1gb in there and depending on I/O etc I'd look into a system with its audio engine on PCMCIA instead of USB or Firewire. I know of 2 respectable systems by RME which is a basic engine which you can connect to a variatie of RME modules for I/O, basicaly its the hdsp engine in pcmcia format but comes for a price. EMU 1616m is cheaper and has great quality and comes with all the need I/O and pre-amps at PT quality. For price you might wanna look into an asus laptop, them a6000 series are nice and come with a Geforce Go 6200 (256mb) and wide screen (15,4"/1200x800).