Laptop Specs for DAW

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Hello,
I'm moving over from using the Roland VS product line for the last 6 years to a Nuendo system on a notebook. I'm leaning towards the Sager 5690 w/ P4 3.0G; 60 gB HD 5400rpm; 512 mB Ram; 4x DVD/RW; and another 60 gB 5400 HD in the flex bay for audio files and samples.

I'm looking for a strong stable machine to primarily track 2-4 tracks at one time, however there may be times in the future where I'd like to record 16 tracks at once. Can this machine handle that, maybe with some tweaks?

Do I truly need another HD to start off if I'm only going to be recording 2 tracks at a time? I could wait and purchase the other HD down the road when I run into the need.

I've been told to put the OS and Nuendo on one HD and use the other strictly for the audio and any samples. I'm not currently using samples or MIDI stuff, but I'm sure I'll venture there down the road.

The reason for the laptop is ultimate mobility and we need one anyway. :)

Thanks for all the help!\

Jonathan
 
I use a Toshiba P25-S520, which has similar specs as what you mentioned. It is killer for music recording. I have a seperate WD usb2 7200rpm hd I use for the audio drive. If you use the main drive you limit yourself to # of tracks in the project, not just how many at a time you are recording. I have done 8 at a time and 32 tracks no problem, I could do more, but havent worked on a song that big on it yet. I'm using Sonar3 producer, not Nuendo.

Laptops rule! But according to my post down a ways (the lack of responses)I think I'm the only one using one all the time here.

H2H
 
Thanks for the reply H. I've pretty much decided to go ahead with the extra HD, I just don't think there'd be any way around it. Any other responses?
 
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