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02-02-2010, 05:31 PM
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Please Help With Laptop Question
Hello,
My birthday is next month and I am going to get a laptop for recording my original music. I would like to know what I should look for when purchasing this type of laptop. I'll have about $700.00 to spend. Are there any brands that I should look for or avoid. Thanks for the help. Raul 
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02-02-2010, 06:17 PM
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Re: Please Help With Laptop Question
Well, brands is something that's been posted in this forum a few times before - many will of course recommend the brand that they have.
I for one can safely tell you that Toshiba is fine (because I'm using one, albeit with Pro Tools LE) - but purely from a components point of view I would recommend locating a laptop with two physical internal HDD's (not two partitions on one single drive), and at least 4Gb RAM. Just as a start. .
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02-02-2010, 06:26 PM
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Re: Please Help With Laptop Question
I personally have never seen that, nor did I realize they made them with dual internal HDD. Hmmm. One little note from my experience, I have a dell Inspirion (?? I forget the model) and it's not a great machine but is fine for live tracking, just not mixing and editing. But before I disabled the c1e in the bios and changed the power settings to cpu min max 100% It would not function with PT at all.
Don't forget about FW chipsets should you choose to use a FW external drive for audio (gotta have 2 HDD.) PT and Ti chips make a great couple 
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02-02-2010, 07:29 PM
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Re: Please Help With Laptop Question
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02-02-2010, 08:28 PM
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Re: Please Help With Laptop Question
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and I went and upgraded to two Seagate Momentus drives! NICE .
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"Well, of course, their requests for subsidies was not Paraguayan in and of it is as it were the United States government would never have if the president, our president, had not and as far as I know thats the way it will always be. Is that clear?"- Chevy Chase, Spies Like Us.
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