Dell Notebook, which one?

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V,

I just bought an Inspiron 8500 and it works fabulously with Sonar 3. I formatted the hard drive and reinstalled XP from scratch to get rid of all the pre-installed nonsense, but you'd want to do that with any other computer too.

--Ethan
 
Did you get a stock notebook or did you customize it?

Thanks for the response.

Peace,
vp
 
Digidude824 said:
don't get any of em lol
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Don't get any of what, Dell or notebooks in general?

With 7200rpm drives, firewire, and 3Ghz processors available, I don't see what's so bad about a notebook, except maybe price.
 
V,

> Did you get a stock notebook or did you customize it? <

I didn't have to add much because it's already fully loaded with USB2, Firewire, network, modem, etc. I got 512 MB of memory and they upgraded the drive to 60 GB for free. But again, the most important customizing I did was to format and partition the drive, and install Windows from scratch. Then I applied all the standard Windows XP optimizations, including disabling all the unneeded services, etc.

I was pleasantly surprised to hear how quiet the built-in sound card is. I expected to buy an outboard USB sound card, but the built-in card is dead silent and very clean. For mixing and playback anyway, which is all I'm using it for. I don't know how good the on-board sound card is for recording.

--Ethan
 
Polaris20 said:
Don't get any of what, Dell or notebooks in general?

With 7200rpm drives, firewire, and 3Ghz processors available, I don't see what's so bad about a notebook, except maybe price.
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sorry.......i just don't like PCs much anymore, especially brand name ones.
 
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