Current Laptop/ Can I use?

[crisbd]

Hi Guys,

I have an HP Pavilion laptop right now. I checked in the device manager under IEEE Bus Host Controller and it says Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller .

Could I try and use this one year old AMD Turion 64 Mobile Technology ML-2, 1.79 Ghz, 1 GB RAM laptop to do some basic audio recording using my Presonus Firebox as the interface?

I am researching components to build or help build my future desktop DAW and right now I am not sure if I am going AMD or Intel! (too confusing for a non-computer guy I tell ya!)

In the meantime I thought I would check the firewire connection on this laptop and was pleasantly surprised to find it a Texas Instrument!

The hard drive on this is only 4400 RPM or something like that and I have learned that is pretty slow for audio recording I was going to buy an external hard drive like a 500 GB Seagate to back up my desktop DAW once I have it. Would this hard drive be a good idea to use now for this?

Any thoughts or other suggestions?

Thanks!

Chris

 

[altitude909]

recording and mixing should be fine, where you are going to hit the ceiling is when you start pouring on the plugins. The speed of the drive will only really come into play with larger projects. As far as your future DAW, use the search function, the topic is covered monthly at least

 

[crisbd]

Thanks altitude909!


Yes, I am researching and continue to research. One thing I have learned is that I am definitely going to be using REAPER! I am so impressed with it!

I am a musician, not a computer guy. Sometimes I wonder "Why am I getting involved with trying to learn all this stuff!" But I know I am learning from researching and asking questions and I think I will be able to build/ help build my desktop DAW pretty soon.