Asus laptop and mbox 2 mini

[pekaboo]

I'm looking at buying an asus laptop with the following specs:

CORE2DUO T7250 2.0GHZ,160G,2x1GB DDR2,15.4" WXGA+ COLOURSHINE,GEFORCE GO8400M/128M TC,S-MULTI+DL, 802.11ABGN+BT V2.0+EDR,1.3MP WEBCAM..

I'll be using this laptop in conjunction with my mbox 2 mini (pro tools 7.3) to play live from ableton at parties and to make tracks with cubase sx3 and have this all running on windows xp.


I've checked the compatibilty section of the digi design site and it looks like it should be ok, it lists the Coredue t7200 as compatible so I presume the 7250 would be fine.

Has anyone used one of these laptops with an mbox 2 mini before? I'd like to know how the performance was, how stable it was and if there are any problems or things I should know before buying.

cheers.

[pekaboo]

hmmm, seems like it has a 5400rpm hard disk and digidesign recommends a 7200rpm hard disk. Is it much of an issue using a 5400 rpm hard disk when i'm going to have 2 gig of ram to begin with?

[spkguitar]

The hard drive speed of 7200 is referring to the audio drive. When using Pro Tools, you must use a separate physical disk for the audio sessions. When using a laptop with Pro Tools, that means using an external firewire drive with the oxford 911 chipset.

7200rpm is a requirement for the audio drive because of the way that audio is streamed to and from the disk. Slower drives cann not keep up with the transfer rate necessary to achieve this.

I think you need to read further into the compatibility documentation.