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Re: In the market for a new laptop

I’ve not had a single problem with my HP bought last year.  i7 processor and 16GB.  I’m in process of setting up an M-Audio USB mixer to plug into it.
 
From: Art Simon
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2013 8:40 PM
Subject: Re: In the market for a new laptop
 
Hi Kay'lon,
 
Most laptops are pretty good these days. I've been having good luck with Acer recently, so If it were me I'd probably buy this:
 
8Gb Ram and an i7 processor should be adequate for most live looping. You could swap out the drive for a SSD (solid state drive) if you have a large number of tracks of music being written to or read from the disk.
 
The biggest question mark is your sound card. Most people anymore use a USB sound card, and not all chipsets work equally well with USB audio. I would post in whatever forums there are for your particular sound card and find out what laptops have worked for other people. I'm currently using a pretty inexpensive Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 USB sound card and I'm getting low levels of latency that rival expensive RME sound cards.
 
With a $1000 budget you should be fine. Stick with lots of RAM and a top of the line Intel i7 processor and you will probably never come close to the limits of the machine.


On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 11:44 AM, kay'lon rushing <k3zz21@gmail.com> wrote:

Looking for a new laptop on windows to use for live looping/production. Hopefully a skinny one that is able to handle decently heavy vst's well. My budget is under $1000. Any suggestions?



 
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