Best Laptops for Pro Tools LE

[lambchops]

Can anyone suggest the least expensive route of "light-piping" to the Digi002?

[oudplayer]

do you need mic pres or not? You can find used Swissonic AD24 and DA24 converters for a few hundred each - they're excellent 8-channel analog XLR to lightpipe converters. They don't have pres, however.

[lambchops]

Thanks..I'll check into that. I'm also looking into a laptop. The Acer Aspire 1804WSMi seems like it might be a prospect, being as I cannot find the 1524 anywhere. Anyone using the 1804 machine, and if so...how goes it? Do we know it's compatability status, or test results? Thanks.

[adamBB]

I've been looking at the Acer. The previous Centrinos had impressive results so a 2gHz Sonoma should be a powerhouse. Should be compatible but I do wonder about the heat and fan noise it might generate. Tightly packed laptop with a fast chip is not a good recipe for a quiet machine.

[bowgraham]

Is anyone using a Compaq NX9010 successfully with an MBOX or 002? It's a 3Ghz Pentium 4 model.

Cheers

[Allen Hallada]

Is anyone using a Compaq NX9010 successfully with an MBOX or 002? It's a 3Ghz Pentium 4 model.

Cheers

Stay away from Pentium 4 laptops for PTLE. Stick with the Pentium M or AMD 64 processors.

Allen

[·[-_-]· Richon]

and what about the Centrinos using FAN to 100%... and so on....

is it al about AMD???

the only problem is that they don't come to my country... only some old AthlonXP 2.4... with very bad..MOBO and RAM...

what about this: SONY VAIO PCG-K35F ( P4 548 3.0GHz.... 32+4 on the DAVEC)

[dmadd9]

Hi to all, It's my first post here in DUC.

So, I'm new to ProTools LE (6.4). I'm trying an Mbox on my laptop: ACER Aspire 1692WLMi.
It is a Intel Centrino 1.7 GHz with 512 MB of RAM.

I'm testing the latency of M-Box, and unfortunately I can't go down from 1024 samples.

This is too large for my task, because I need playing live guitar, passing it through some RTAS plugs, like Guitar Rig.

At 1024, often I can hear digital crackles. It seems that drivers can't manage the huge amount of data sent by laptop and audio card.

Do you know if I can solve my problem, or it is the maximum value I can achieve with MBox?
Maybe it is the slower USB1.1 interface?

Have DIGI002s this problem?

thanx

best regards

dm

[Nitronick]

See my post here

[dmadd9]

So I have to change my new laptop?

I haven't bought M-Box. A friend rent it to me for some days.

Do you know if Digi002 works better with FireWire?


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