laptops for ableton liveset

MarcAshken · Post by **MarcAshken** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:41 pm

if you could pick any laptop for performing live, running ableton, midi controllers etc, what would it be an why? Someone mentioned dual processor laptops coming out real soon, any real advantages? Any help would be great, many thanks.
Marc

tsod · Post by **tsod** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 12:29 am

you should definitely go for dual core ones.. i read ableton is going to support them at version 5.2

brianc · Post by **brianc** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 12:57 am

tsod wrote:you should definitely go for dual core ones.. i read ableton is going to support them at version 5.2

No, Intel Macs are going to be natively supported in 5.2, which is due out any day now. Multiple core/processor support is coming in 6.0, due out this Fall.

Consider a Macbook Pro. I tried out a 5.2 beta on one, and it worked really well.

MarcAshken · Post by **MarcAshken** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 7:06 pm

forgot to mention i'm anti mac, my desktop is a pc so will want it to be backward compatible, went up TCR today and say a sony viao I liked the look of, 15.4 screen, 100gb hd (5400rpm) 1.66GhZ, intel core duo, got em down to £1040, FE series it is, think this will be sufficient?

cyhl · Post by **cyhl** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:54 pm

MarcAshken wrote:5400rpm

no good! you need 7200rpm for a safe use of audio softs... (well, you don't need it, but it's very high on the "recommended" list)

MarcAshken · Post by **MarcAshken** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:52 pm

ah nuts, any suggestions? I've only had a sony and a dell b4 and the dell was total pants

provaznik · Post by **provaznik** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 1:17 am

you could try something from phil rees or nu systems. but i don't know a damn thing about pc's. don't listen to me i just saw the high prices and fell for the pc marketing schemes.

orbnhoj · Post by **orbnhoj** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 3:05 am

well if ya got some cash then one of these would work great - http://www.frostnetwork.net/.