Best Laptops for Pro Tools LE

[petertje]

Hi,

I just got me a acer 1524wlmi! do i need a firewire card or can i use the one in the laptop?

thanx,

peter

[Atman]

Hi all,

I have been following this thread for some time, but this is my first post here.
After a long search, I have come down to 2 machines:

The Gateway at Best Buy for 1549 USD:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....=1109938021195

and a customized Digital Audio Wave with same processor as Gateway but with 17´display, 7200 rpm hard disk for 2379 USD:
http://www.digitalaudiowave.com/inde...ROD&ProdID=376

My question is:

Is the performance I´ll get with the customized model be worth the extra 700 USD ?

[EAR]

Is anyone getting these Davec results w/ a Digi 002R? How stable are these systems?

Thanks,
Eric

[glu]

will the suggested emachine that people are getting work for ableton live 4?

i am about to put together an allenstein, however, if the emachine (or other PTLE workable) laptop works for
ableton live 4, i will buy it today!

so anyone using ableton live 4 with their emachine?
hows the performance. I am super close to making the purchase!

Thanks
Glu

[Allen Hallada]

Is anyone getting these Davec results w/ a Digi 002R? How stable are these systems?

Thanks,
Eric

Yes these laptops are achieving similar results as the AMD 64 3400 desktops or better. Stability is the same.

Allen

[Allen Hallada]

will the suggested emachine that people are getting work for ableton live 4?

i am about to put together an allenstein, however, if the emachine (or other PTLE workable) laptop works for
ableton live 4, i will buy it today!

so anyone using ableton live 4 with their emachine?
hows the performance. I am super close to making the purchase!

Thanks
Glu

You will be using the same chipset and processor so I don't know why it would be any different. Hard drive performance can be changed with a quick swap if needed.

Allen

[dmadd9]

Hi to all,
I'm using for about 1 month an Mbox with my Acer Aspire 1692.

Unfortunately my chiset is unsupported by Mbox. Don't worry, a friend rent me the sound card, I don't have bought it.

My question is if also you know if Digi002 or Digi002 rack give problems with this laptop?
I like very much pro tools and the mbox sound.
On my desktop I use a Creamware Luna, and it seems that Mbox sounds better.

It is a bit limitated because doesn't have MIDI ports and only two outputs and inputs ports.

thanx
best regards
dm

[Sacred Spirit]

Digi hardware is pretty fussy about chipsets. If you couldn't get MBox running, likely an OO2 also wouldn't run. One thing you could try is a powered USB hub. Some 915 chipsets did not meet the USB power specs.

[Tracy Lowery]

Hey Guys, Im posting this here in hopes I can get some suggestions, Please take a look at my specs below, basically I am going home to visit some of my old bandmates and I want to be able to record some tracks there. I called my friend at GCPro here in Florida and the will rent me an 002R to take with me. I need to get a Laptop and small 4 space soft rack so I can put my Rosetta 800 and digi 002r as well as either the great river or the Digimax preamp. I want to be able to carry the rack and the Laptop on the plane as well as some cables and two microphones. Anybody traveled like this lately? Any problems? I was thinking of going to Best Buy to get the Allenstein recomended Gateway Laptop, Anybody have suggestions on the Laptop? Any help here will be much appreciated.


Thanks, Tracy Lowery


Digi 001 - WinXP PRO - PT V. 6.4
Asus K8V SE Deluxe
Kingston PC4000 HYPERX -k RT 2 x 512
CPU AMD 64 3400+ ATHLON 64
CPU FAN A/I ZALMAN CNPS7000A-CU RT
Western Digital 80 gig - System
Western Digital 80 gig - Audio
Western Digital Firewire 250 gig - Storage
MNTR SMSNG|19"LCD 193P-Silver x 2
Apogee Rosetta 800 - via lightpipe into 001
Apogee Big Ben M. Clock
Bechmark DAC1 - via Spdif out 001
Great River MP-2NV - Preamp
Distressor EL8-x 2
Presonus Digimax - Preamp

[tdtd]

just thought i would attempt to post some helpful info:

http://www23.tomshardware.com/index.html

1. question which benchmark would be best to determine the best processor for an laptop/mbox combination.

2. any thought on the dual core processors that will start entering laptops in the next year?


* i bought an external hard drive for my dell 8600 inspiron pent-m 2.0 755 processor. i went with the Maxtor OneTouch™ II - 300GB FireWire/USB Drive...what should i look for in external drive? i went with firewire and usb, 16mb cache buffer, 7200 speed...

http://www.maxstore.com/product.asp?sku=2562934