Can laptops do 24bit editing?

[Mongoo]

I know that Laptops arn't exactly known for audio quality but are there any that have 24bit soundcards?

Do you need to have a 24bit card in your laptop to use the 24bit editing that an editor such as "WavLab" allows?

What I want to do is to be able to import 24bit auido from a external all in one recorder for further editing with my DX and VST plugins and then export them back to the recorder for mixing.

I would perfer a laptop to a Desktop because of the portability and size.

How quite are laptops? Would they make to much noise to have one as a monior if you are recording 5 feet away?

Thanks for the info

Mongoo

 

[christiaan]

For 24bits recording/mixing on a laptop you'll end up buying an external soundcard (either USB or preferably firewire). Onboard soundcards in laptops are to my knowledge always cheap solutions that don't qualify as seriously usable audio interfaces.

 

[SPINSTERWUN]

You can build a desktop that is portable....

http://www.rackmountequipment.com/products/rackchassis.html

Then scroll down the page.

spin

 

[christiaan]

You can build a desktop that is portable....

In that case you'd often be better of with one of those small barebones like the Shuttle XPC's