Keep the laptop you have, it's fine for music. Get into a pcmcia audio
interface of some kind (Hammerfall, Digigram, Echo, etc...) and a usb midi
interface. I have an Inspiron5000 (P3-750, 256MB RAM, Win2k) and a Dell
Latitude C610 (1GHz P3, 256MB RAM, Win2k) and plan on outfitting one of the
two l
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> i would recommend _not_ using XP f
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:you need to install your OS without ACPI, and then do some backround
:services optimizations for audio
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:I would recommend XP as your OS of choise for audio.
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:www.musicxp.net has some good tweak inf
Throwing some wood on the fire...
I think al the laptop 'live' performances that i have seen where all done on
apple powerbook g3...don't know why...there must be some reason...
i am actually an owner of one and using it in my studio, and i must say that
it works absolutly perfect...i don't use
maybe you should reread his orignal post.
he asked about mac's, so I answered his question.
>>snip snip
or
just get a Mac and start making music instead of playing around with
control panels and audio settings.
>> end the snip
it's not like I'm biased against pc's, they have there purpose, hell t
f -list of course.
-Joe
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Subject: Re: [313] laptop music makers: problems and more problems
> Mac.
> I use both windows machines and macs and have found that
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Mac.
I use both windows machines and macs and have found that
macs work better for me for music and pc's work better
for web/email and spread sheets etc.
this is fine with me I'm famuliar with both system and I
am able to keep all the added crap off my mac so it's
just for audio (pro tools, li
you need to install your OS without ACPI, and then do some backround
services optimizations for audio
I would recommend XP as your OS of choise for audio.
www.musicxp.net has some good tweak info and I can help you beyond that if
you have questions.
Im able to get 4ms latency at 96khz/24bit on m
