Laptops for MPowered Pro Tools

[SeanDerMan]

Hi all,
Thought I might as well post a thread on laptops that work well with MPPT. All the other PT sections have it, so why not here?!

Please post what laptops are being used/useful/useless. With as much specs as possible. This way we will know what works best and what doesn't work. If a Davec Performance Test test can be performed and results given, even better.

I presume the Recommended Laptops for PTLE for WinXP should work well on MPPT, but my guess would be there will be a horde of other laptops that work for MPPT that are not listed there.

Cheers!

[spkguitar]

I'm using the E-Machines 6811 from that list (Best laptops for PTLE) with the M-Audio Ozonic and I'm getting great results. I haven't done a formal DaveC with it yet, but I did a "quickie" and stopped at 32+25 at 128 buffer. That's with no tweaks, coming right off the internal FW connection, and I really could have kept going for a few more tracks. I'm sure I could get better results if I did it properly and shut everything else down.

Specs are in my sig, but the condensed version:
eMachines M6811 with 512MB RAM
A fresh install of XP Pro (not a refresh of the factory disk image with all the other crap)
250GB Maxtor inside the MP-320F FireWire enclosure
M-Audio Ozonic
mPowered

[SeanDerMan]

Anyone tried the Compaq R4000 series, they are AMD based systems and seem like really good machines, wth good specs and great prices. Compaq R4000 series.
Don't seem to find anyone on the LE thread using this machine. Anyone with it and tried it?

[Jack Dawson]

A little feedback here:

PT MPowered
Firewire 410
Dell Latitude 505 laptop - as received from Dell
Celeron processor 1.5GHz
512M ram
Win XP Home SP2 - no tweaks
TI Firewire controller
Recording to internal drive or USB external
DaveC test = 20 audio tracks (CPU choked)

Hope this helps...

[JS Gaeta]

Just bought a Compaq X6000 and it seems to be working real well. It wouldn't work with the M-box because it has the 915 chipset in it, but it's working great with my M-powered PT and Firewire 1814!

[digidesigner]

PT M-powered
FW410 interface with 512 buffer
HP nx5000 laptop
512 meg memory
slow HD (4000 something rmp)
Pentium M1.6 gig processor

results:
32 audio + 11 aux all with comp/4EQ/mono slap/mono short/mono long delays

[SeanDerMan]

Hey JS, the x6000 are pretty souped up machines from the specs on the net. Can we have a Davec test run with results posted please.

Looks like the MPPT isn't as touchy as Digi Hardware products. Seem to be workin pretty well on a variety of systems.
Cheers.

[fabz]

Yakumo Notebook with AMD Turion64 ML-32 Processor
512 MB Ram, 80GB/5400rpm Harddisk, external 80GB/7200rpm Drive (Trekstore)
WinXP Home
M-Audio Firewire1814

25 Tracks with normal amount of Comps and EQs and Reverbs work pretty good.
I'm sure i could use 25+ but never tried.

I had some serious Problems with dropouts and distorted sound with my ENE1410 Cardbus-Chipset but i fixed it with a tool from ECHO and now it runs!!! I had to disable my WLan interface too. But now it rocks!

[SeanDerMan]

Anyone have the Dell Inspiron 6000 notebook and run MPPT on it? Seems like a good notebook, cept the fact tht it doesn't have dedicated graphics memory.

[Oz-boy]

hi all,

when trying to work out the performance of different machines it helps to use a standard testing system. i'd suggest that you try the DAVEC test.

although some of you may think it's stupid to run a test with these plugins loaded it's not about creating a real world scenario ... it's about creating an even test ground (everyone has these 5 digirack plugins) so that we can get an unbiased comparison of different machines.

i'm very excited both by the power of the current notebook computers and also by the potential of the m-powered software ... i for one would really appreciate being able to accurately assess m-powered setups against their LE conterparts.

stew