Laptop for home recording

LazerBeakShiek

LazerBeakShiek

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My laptop quit. So I need a replacement. Any suggestions welcome. I need a 2 in 1 14" laptop with win10. This old one is from 2010. So I need another 8-10 years from the new one.

Asus? What is out there?
 
What are you going to do with it, Shiek? Is this just for browsing or do you plan to using it for your recording sessions?

I picked up a Lenovo S340, and it works really well for normal everyday stuff. 256GB SSD and a 10th Gen I7, with 8GB RAM. I threw Reaper on it and it seems to run fine. The only thing that seems cheap is the little wall wart power supply. I don't use any 2-in-1 stuff. I have an old Android tablet, but I didn't use it except when I traveled for work. The 340 is a lower end unit.

If you want it to last 10 years, you should make sure you get a good I7 at least. You know how software keeps going up in it's processing requirements.
 
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This is what I was considering.
ASUS VivoBook FILP 14 2-in-1 Touchscreen Laptop, 14" FHD NanoEdge, Intel Core i5 Quad-core up to 3.40 GHz, 20GB RAM, 512GB SSD, Backlit, USB-C, FP...

The 14" is nice because I use it in the car. On site for rebuilds it fits in the glove compartment cradle. The 2-1 can flip around and I can mirror cast from it. Unfortunately it need to pull double duty and be a music recorder too.
 
How's yer eyesight Lazey m'lad? More to the point, how will it be in 6-8 years time?

Two years ago I bought my son a W10 Lenovo T430. Good machine but setting it up for him (when he came home for Crinble) was a PITA on a 14" screen. My laptop at the time was an i3 HP 15" and dropping that inch made all the difference to me.

I now have an i7 Lenovo T510 and it is fine. It is a refurb and it took me a time to get the spec I wanted. MUST be 15.6" SSD* 8G ram. I was not that interested in a stonkingly powerful music machine but I think that spec would do a lot in a home recording setting?

If you want something top notch for big music projects look to the specialists like Scan.

*I had to settle for a 160G SSD, bit small but since I do not intend to stuff it with music files fine. I have a 1Tb USB 3.0 drive and I regularly dump stuff onto that.

Dave.
 
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What eye sight? Bats like me use radar.

So what is up with the SSD drives? Are they better?

Another problem I ran into was that my folder with a few hundred business addressees is no longer accessible. My backup in the cloud has about half of them. I NEED those addresses. Can I send the drive to have the data recovered? Know of a place?

Does Scan do that stuff?
 
THe SSD is the hot ticket. My new laptop boots up in about 5-7 seconds. It impressed me enough that I actually pulled the drive from my tower that I use for audio and video editing, and replaced it with a 500GB SSD plus a 1TB data drive. Now I've got both the speed and the space.

As for recovering the data from your old drive, if the drive didn't die, then you should be able to get an adapter to plug it in as an external USB drive and pull the data from it. If the drive itself died, then you probably need to have a professional place recover the data. I used to back up all my work data a couple of times a year, and its bailed me out before. External HDs are CHEAP insurance. For $60 you can have a full image backup.

Which is my other question... how come your cloud backup is incomplete? I've never relied on the cloud for any of my stuff, but I thought it was supposed to do that automatically.
 
The only real downside you'll come across in a Laptop is the Screen Resolution. Sure if you throw a thousand plugins on your tracks, you'll slow down, but so will a desktop... my only issue I have with using a Laptop as my main "DAW" station... is the Screen Resolution. Mine is an HP Laptop with a "touchscreen" (which may be the culprit!) but it won't go over a certain screen size and programs like Reason won't fit on my screen properly. Some VSTs that are not "re-sizable" also will not fit... though I suppose if you're coming from a Laptop to another Laptop, perhaps you already have seen this issue. Just pay attention to your MAX resolution.
 
"So what is up with the SSD drives? Are they better?"

Yes, especially for W10. I don't recall the exact details but W10 'indexes' the HDD by default and the process is, I understand super rapid and unnoticed on an SSD. Not so for a mechanical drive. The other advantages are, total silence and less heat.

The operational speed might not be apparent for all function since (afaik) a PC runs mostly from ram and so the HDD drive speed has little effect mu sec to mu sec but of course, anything that needs fetching and sending to HDD will be faster.

N very B! You are being told this by a very old, retired valve amp jockey on meds!

Dave.
 
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N very B! You are being told this by a very old, retired valve amp jockey on meds!

Dave.
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N? Vary? B? .... I don't know what to do with that.

N= End? very B? B is bad? The end is very bad?

N= N a girls name? and she is very bad?

End every Bee? Dude I cant figure it out. You are an enigma.

Computer arrived.
 
Biggest drive you can get - SSD would be my suggestion. Music needs to hump HUGE amounts of data around, especially when you use samplers. loading a big string patch can take ages on slower drives.
 
Wow, I lost everything up to 2018.

One morning you wake up and it just doesn't work anymore..Must be like what GOD feels every morning about the Earth.

Y'all like latin? Here is an easy one. Ubi Est Bubila?

Agricola , agricolae, agricolum.

A Guitar hero that wields 3 ancient languages..Latin language of the dead, love and Music.
 
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I feel for you, but seriously... you don't have a single backup? Heck, I've got multiple backups of my work data including emails going back to 2001, and I'm not even working anymore!

If you're using this for business, then do yourself a favor and buy 1TB USB drive for $60 and MAKE A BACKUP! For business, I would have two and alternate backups. Put them in the firesafe for safe keeping. Its your livelyhood, which is worth a whole lot more that $120. Once a quarter, back up all your work data.
 
Most of the addresses have been salvaged from UPS and shipping accounts. The rest are gonna be a surprise. Who doesn't like surprises? The IRS?

The only reaper files left are in the cloud or here in the threads as uploads.

Anyways, I am back at it. Thinking there is some great secret FX chain to making a decent guita or vocal recording...There is got to be machine that does it all really easy, and always sounds just right..

New clip.
New - 005 by Mark C | Free Listening on SoundCloud
 
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