what laptop?

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ok still confused with the way they mark up processors these days (since i use reason as a main soft synth) basically getting hold of the firepod (because of the inputs and it's firewire) but what the hell spec should i be looking for obviously plenty of ram 1,2gb+ but what spec would be stable enough run these simultaneously (and on a budget!!!!)

nuendo 3 (with waves plugins)
reason 3.0 (with reasonably large patches 250mb)
piano refill
drum kit refill
recording 8 tracks simultaneously
 
Absolute minimum 1Gb ram for your softsynths, 5400rpm hard disk, and I'd have a look at the Core Duo cpus.

Having said that, I've happily recorded 8 tracks with a firepod on my Pentium M 1.7
 
Look at AMD (Athlon 64 and Turion 64) alternatives as well. The newer Core 2 Duo chipsets for laptops are proving to be problematic with Firewire devices.
 
The newer Core 2 Duo chipsets for laptops are proving to be problematic with Firewire devices.
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Source? You sure your not talking about the core duo's?
 
Yup! Stay away from Intel/Dell laptops.
I am taking the AMD route.
 
brzilian said:
Woops - yeah, Core Duos (laptops with Intel 945 chipsets).

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=73829
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That's way out of date. Well, I'm not sure what the built-in FireWire on those Dell models is, so I don't know if those crashes are fixed, but the issue of the TI ExpressCard FireWire cards not working should have been fixed long ago.

The basic issue is that the TI FireWire chipset for PCI Express is a bridged chipset. It uses a PCI FireWire controller behind a PCI Express to PCI bus bridge. I'm impressed by the performance of the bridged part; it's a shining example of what tightly coupled PCIe-PCI bridging can do.

However, being one of the first such designs, it is not without its problems. My guess is that iterating the bus probably requires some additional glue code since one side looks like a PCIe bus and the other side looks like a legacy PCI bus. In any case, it requires some additional functionality in BIOS to properly probe the bus and early versions of BIOS didn't know how to deal with it, so they freaked out. :D (Yes, that's a technical term.)

Should be fixed by now, I would think.
 
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