Musicviking
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Hi, I am new to the music industries and have an interest in music. Can anyone suggest to me which laptop should I buy to mixing the music and editing? my budget for laptop is 40,000.
I will go with any laptop with a minimum i5 CPU, minimum of 4 Gb RAM, and at least 500Gb HDD space. You can get a good laptop for music production at about $500 (hunt for the promotions). But not to forget that you will also need extra gear like a USB audio interface, a pair of studio monitors or some good studio headphones (or both), and maybe a midi USB controller to complete your production station.
Any dell laptops I had didn't connect back to mains earth so I don't see how there can be ground loop issues.
Can't say that's unique to dell, though. 3 conductors to the power supply seems a lot less common than two... ?
I did have one, though, that produced an audible buzz when running on PSU and connected to some other mains-powered device, like monitors or audio interface.
The reason was that the laptop's 'ground' was floating a volt or so above mains earth so rather than finding a way to break a ground loop, I had to find a way to make a proper ground path.
I'm not sure I'd call win 10 a 'must'. A necessary evil, at best, going by the community feedback lately but, really, it's not even necessary.
Personally I'd cling on to 7 for dear life, or go with a totally different platform.
7 has a good few years in it yet, I'm sure.
Was it lack of ground then? I know someone here very recently said Dell were noisy buggers!
so long as you keep off the net? All the advice is to ditch it for internet use once the security updates stop.
The issue I had was, yea.
I suspect that guy may have been describing the same issue but I don't think he's reported back so far.
With up to date third party AV and browser, and sensible browsing practices, I'd keep on trucking.
Not advice...Just what I'd do.
Bbbbut! Don't you run macs??!
And WILL there be AV updates for an obsolete, not supported OS?
so the guy who is not a pc guru keeps repeating that he heard it on the internet so it must be true
i have 3 dells and none of them are noisy nor have ground loops or any audio problems
you can updates for MBAM, which is the BEST antimalware program, forever if you need to stay on the internet
very easy to go off the net, stop MBAM to do your audio without any problems , restart MBAM before you go back on the net
and no you wont get hacked while it is updating to the latest version