Best Laptops for Pro Tools LE

[tommy_tox]

Hi,
I have just bought a DIGI 002 RACK. PT run but I have DAE error in records and in play too! (-6085). My internal FW port is maybe incompatible. But the interface work very well with softs like Cubase SX. Can you help me?
Thx
Tommy

My configuration:

By Sisandra

Processor
Model : Mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+
Speed : 1.86GHz
Model Number : 2500 (estimated)
Performance Rating : PR2690 (estimated)
Type : Mobile
L2 On-board Cache : 512kB ECC Synchronous, Write-Back, 16-way set, 64
byte line size

Mainboard
Bus(es) : ISA AGP PCI CardBus USB FireWire/1394
MP Support : No
MP APIC : No
System BIOS : AT/AT COMPATIBLE
Total Memory : 448MB

Chipset 1
Model : ATI Technologies Inc A3/U1 S2K CPU to PCI Bridge
Front Side Bus Speed : 2x 133MHz (266MHz data rate)

Video System
Monitor/Panel : Écran par défaut
Monitor/Panel : Écran par défaut
Monitor/Panel : Écran Plug-and-Play
Adapter : RADEON IGP 320M

Physical Storage Devices
Removable Drive : USB DISK Pro USB Device
Hard Disk : IC25N060ATMR04-0 (56GB)
Hard Disk : USB DISK Pro USB Device
CD-ROM/DVD : QSI DVDRW SDW-041 (CD 24X Rd, 16X Wr) (DVD 3X Rd)

Logical Storage Devices
Boot (C:) : 27GB (15GB, 55% Free Space) (NTFS)
Backup (D:) : 24GB (18GB, 73% Free Space) (NTFS)
Recover (E:) : 4.9GB (3.2GB, 66% Free Space) (FAT32)
CD-ROM/DVD (F:) : N/A

Peripherals
Serial/Parallel Port(s) : 0 COM / 1 LPT
USB Controller/Hub : Contrôleur d'hôte ouvert PCI vers USB NEC
USB Controller/Hub : Contrôleur d'hôte ouvert PCI vers USB NEC
USB Controller/Hub : Contrôleur hôte PCI vers USB standard étendu
USB Controller/Hub : Concentrateur USB racine
USB Controller/Hub : Concentrateur USB racine
USB Controller/Hub : Concentrateur USB racine
USB Controller/Hub : Périphérique de stockage de masse USB
FireWire/1394 Controller/Hub : Contrôleur hôte Texas Instruments IEEE
1394 compatible OHCI (Open Host Controller Interface)
PCMCIA/CardBus Controller : Contrôleur CardBus Texas Instruments PCI-4410
Keyboard : Clavier standard 101/102 touches ou clavier Microsoft
Natural Keyboard PS/2
Mouse : Synaptics PS/2 Port TouchPad

MultiMedia Device(s)
Device : SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio

Communication Device(s)
Device : Conexant SoftK56 Data Fax Modem

Printers and Faxes
Model : hp deskjet 5550 series
Model : HP DeskJet 1600C

Power Management
AC Line Status : On-Line
Battery No 1 : 95%

Operating System(s)
Windows System : Microsoft Windows XP/2002 Home (Win32 x86) 5.01.2600
(Service Pack 1)

Network Services
Adapter : Broadcom 440x 10/100 Integrated Controller

THX
Tommy

[EAR]

Allen,

Your knowledge and help is greatly appreciated. I am a Mac user, who is about to purchase a PC for use with Pro Tools LE. I will also need to use it from time-to-time for some non-related WEB courses that I will be taking during the Summer and Fall. Will I get better PT performance with The Allenstein Machine, or the E-machines 6811? What are the DaveC scores @ the 128 samples H/W buffer setting on these 2 machines? Is Mac Universe a reliable vendor? Lastly, is Service Pack 2 working with PT 6.9?

Thank you so much for your feedback!
Eric

[jjhuntfox]

So I'm looking at these two machines:

7426GX

m6811

$1550 verses $975 ($825 Plus $150 for the memory upgrade to 1GB)

What should I do? I'm thinking about going with the cheaper machine but I have financing at work for two years and that makes me think about doing the more expensive one...

Advice requested..

Thanks

[iikka]

Moi Slemmu

Ostin vähän aikaa sitten läppärin tietoasema-nimisestä
firmasta. Heidän Z7- mallinsa tuntuu toimivan ihan OK.
tosin se on centrino.

t.iikka

[luckykid]

got my dell 9200. WOW this thing is huge. the 17" widescreen makes you soil your pants its awesome for editing on.

i installed pro tools straight on to the pre installed software to see how it handled.

i got 18 tracks out of it before going into red! and when i pressed record it came out of the red even. i could get more!

so i partitioned my drive i cant wait to see how many tracks i can get on a fresh OS

[Slemmu]

Moi Slemmu

Ostin vähän aikaa sitten läppärin tietoasema-nimisestä
firmasta. Heidän Z7- mallinsa tuntuu toimivan ihan OK.
tosin se on centrino.

t.iikka

No se on moro iikka!

Kiitos tästä, täytyypä katsastaa noita centrino malleja. hyvät kesät vaan!

[Heideana]

got my dell 9200. WOW this thing is huge. the 17" widescreen makes you soil your pants its awesome for editing on.

i installed pro tools straight on to the pre installed software to see how it handled.

i got 18 tracks out of it before going into red! and when i pressed record it came out of the red even. i could get more!

so i partitioned my drive i cant wait to see how many tracks i can get on a fresh OS

I just installed PTLE 6.7 on my dell 9300 for the first time...blue screen of death on PTLE execution...hmm. Could be that as Roland said previously, whatever change Dell did isn't good.

[unix-guy]

Hi everyone,

I've been thinking about getting a laptop for mobile PT recording with my Mbox. I was just skimming this thread and it seems like the eMachines M6811 Allen mentioned is a smoking system for a great price.

I have 2 questions:

1) is this compatible with the Mbox?

2) When I hear people mention the "Standard PC" install, what are they talking about? I have installed XP Home and Pro many times and never noticed any option like that - is is something that only comes up on a laptop?

Thanks for the info!

Kevin

[luckykid]

ok i reinstalled windows i am yet to put on my stripped down side of windows.

so i thought i would try a daveC test while i had norton antivirus, the internet, msn7, azureus torrent downloader (downloading windows xp sp1) and style xp running.

i am running xp pro sp2

i have a dell inspiron 9200

2.0ghz centrino, 1gb ram, 80gig 5400rpm hardrive

i got 15 tracks with 5 plugins on each (thats 75 plugins!) and could record for 60 seconds.

what i think im gonna do is use my main side of windows to record and do editing and then install my stripped down version on my other partition for major editing and mastering. anyone else done this?

thought i would share this with you guys i will post when i do my stripped side with davec scores.

and thanks too people on this forum who have helped me.

[Allen Hallada]

Allen,

Your knowledge and help is greatly appreciated. I am a Mac user, who is about to purchase a PC for use with Pro Tools LE. I will also need to use it from time-to-time for some non-related WEB courses that I will be taking during the Summer and Fall. Will I get better PT performance with The Allenstein Machine, or the E-machines 6811? What are the DaveC scores @ the 128 samples H/W buffer setting on these 2 machines? Is Mac Universe a reliable vendor? Lastly, is Service Pack 2 working with PT 6.9?

Thank you so much for your feedback!
Eric

Eric,
You will get better performance with the most current Allenstein Machines listed but I'm not sure the difference is going to make up for the portability you gain from the laptop. I haven't seen anyone complain about not having enough processoing power with that 6811 laptop yet when it is configured properly and allows the lowest buffer settings. E-Machines gets about 32+21 and the Allenstein gets about 32+27 without overclocking on PTLE 6.9. Many people have bought from www.macuniverse.com with no problems so far other than one guy who received his laptop without the adjustments that the company told him they would do on the laptop before he received it. I don't blame them as they should be sending it as is and not doing modifications to this laptop to protect themselves. I've heard that Service Pack 2 is now working with PTLE 6.9 but haven't tried it yet myself.

Allen