Does anyone know of any custom laptop manufacturers based in europe? I kind of shot myself in the foot a while back by buying an audio interface that requires a PCMCIA or an Express card slot, a feature that along with TI firewire seems to be disappearing from most laptops. It all works fine for now on my current laptop but I will need to upgrade soon as its getting a little old and slow.
I know there's few speciallist laptops out there optimised for music production but I haven't found the the right one yet. I've only really looked at UK based companies so far, does anyone know of any others based in Europe?
http://3xs.scan.co.uk/Category.asp?Syst ... tegoryID=2
http://www.raincomputers.co.uk/laptops-s/1818.htm
http://www.dv247.com/synergy/
http://www.music-pc.com/laptops/
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I couldn't find any new laptops made with a firewire port, but I got an ex business one cheap from ebay. In very good condition, with warranty and more than fast enough for anything i need it for.
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Cheers guys!
@oblioblioblio: Yeah buisness laptops seem to have more i/o options, in fact my current laptop is a business model. But even with the right connections a lot of the laptops out there wont work with some interfaces..its seems to be a bit of a mine field!
@livecollective: cheers, hadn't heard of Frost, the "audioframe mobile" looks like it may be ideal
Anyone know of any others?
@oblioblioblio: Yeah buisness laptops seem to have more i/o options, in fact my current laptop is a business model. But even with the right connections a lot of the laptops out there wont work with some interfaces..its seems to be a bit of a mine field!
@livecollective: cheers, hadn't heard of Frost, the "audioframe mobile" looks like it may be ideal
Anyone know of any others?
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I'm pissed that the industry is fading out firewire with new laptops, leaving only usb, with nothing to take its place.
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Even the laptops that do have firewire may not work with a lot of interfaces unless they use a Texas Instruments (TI) chipset, and appently thats almost been faded out completely for a cheaper alternative.jessejames wrote:I'm pissed that the industry is fading out firewire with new laptops, leaving only usb, with nothing to take its place.
The only options left are to move to custom desktop, a custom laptop or a mac...basically its going to be expensive whatever route I go!
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thats why i went the used route. but i don't use a computer for composition so i was happier to go with a used one than if it was my primary compositional tool.
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Most of my composition is done ITB so looking to take adavantage of a faster processor and a solid state hard drive....probably looking for more than I need but I'm getting greedyoblioblioblio wrote:thats why i went the used route. but i don't use a computer for composition so i was happier to go with a used one than if it was my primary compositional tool.