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slightly OT: laptop advice for running softsynths live
ok, so my keyboard player has his garage destroyed by a runaway car a few months ago and included in the items damaged was one of his spare keyboards. now instead of replacing it with another keyboard, he's interested in the idea of getting a laptop instead. i suggested to him that the best reson for doing this would be to run a few really good emulations of specific keyboards - a hammond, a rhodes, a moog and a mellotron. all sounds which are not covered by the two keyboards that he currently uses. the laptop would be an addition to those.
now he could go into PC World and pick up a windows PC for 300-400 quid, or he could look at secondhand macbooks for 500-800 quid. he has 700 to spend, but he'll need a decent controller keyboard and an audio interface as well.
my question is, if he gets a windows machine for 400 quid, is this going to be a false economy? is he better off getting a used macbook instead? he's not bothered which...he just wants reliability so it doesn't crash on stage and it can run three or four softsynths, either standalone, or hosted.
as a macbook user myself, i know this would be a "safe" option, but i'm clueless about windows laptops. the specs look good, but are they really ok?
sim
