Best Laptop for Recording (2400$ max)

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2400 Dollars to spend ONLY for the laptop.

I am otherwise planning on getting the Tascam US122 or the M-Audio DUO.

So what will have a good USB 2.0 connection, and will have a fast hard drive with plenty of memory.

Thanks for your help.
Ajay
 
Not up much on laptops but I am curious about something. With $2,400 budget you could get a decent desktop and one fine preamp, or a slew of other options. Preamps like the ones in the DUO are pretty weak.
 
I knew that would be the standard repsonse, because I totally agree with you. Why not go firewire with some nice pres and a lower laptop or PC. But the I only have 2400$ to spend on a laptp specifically. Hard to explain.
Ajay
 
that kinda sucks that you can't spread the money out.

but if that's the case....


well can you change to a desktop instead of laptop? if so, prolly could get a tite mac. (same goes for PC, but mac's are generally very expensive and in general more secure (aka less crashing/problems!)).

anyway, anything for 2400 bucks will be pretty awesome. haha. get lots of ram, a P4 or AMD XP+, lots of Mghz speed. I mean, you can't really go wrong. Just make sure it is all compatible with whatever soundcard stuff you plan on getting.
 
Hard Drives

Another important part of your decision is the speed of the hard drive.

New Laptop hard drives can be up to 7200 RPM which is nice for recording.
If you get a hard drive with a slow spin rate it will not be able to keep up with the input stream.
 
Alienware Area 51m

2.66Ghz P4
512MB DDR
60gig 7200rpm HD
128MB DDR AGP Mobile Radeon
CDRW

$2401

Gateway 400XL

2.8Ghz P4
512MB DDR
60gig 5400rpm HD
ATI 32MB DDR Mobile Radeon
DVD-R/CD-RW combo burner

$1699
 
apples to oranges

comparing intel centrinos to macs is more typical apples to oranges mac vs intel stuff. i have a dell latitude d800 with a centrino 1.6 and it's a fine machine....i can't imagine someone being upset with one of those.

as for the usb 2.0, usb 2 is backwards compatible, so in two words, "it should". i have usb 2.0 on my machine and run all kinds of usb 1.0 devices and have yet to find one that won't work correctly. for that matter, there aren't a whole lot of usb 2.0 devices on the market yet.

for that budget and comparable to the interfaces you have listed, i'd also look at the m-audio mobilepre (usb-based) and/or the m-audio firewire 410. both are bus-powerable, too, which is nice for mobile recording.


wade
 
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