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Read up at the Bidule forum on how far Bidule has come on the 64 bit version. The people at Plogue will give you the best briefing. http://www.plogue.com/phpBB2/index.php Last time I used Bidule was a few years back and I remember its 64 bit version was almost unusable and with the 32 bit version the support for multiple cores was also very flaky. I could only make it run well in single core mode, but that's a kind of waste with today's powerful i7 laptops. Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.perboysen.com http://www.youtube.com/perboysen On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Robert Craig Thomas <robert@robertcthomas.com> wrote: > I've been using a Lenovo T500 15" screen w 1680 resolution with 4gb at > 25.3ghz on Windows 7 - 64bit all with good success, running Mobius > inside of > Ableton Live (Ableton 32-bit because of Mobius) and within Ableton > running > Kontakt with 4-6 instruments loaded (I use an EWI) plus various 3rd party > plugins... and it's been running with even the tiniest burp. The T500 > can > apparently take 8gb of memory, but 4gb memory Simms are expensive (and > I'm > cheap) and it runs fine as is. > > I've also used a Lenovo T61 15" 1680 resolution w4gb mem, Win7 64bit with > good success, but I like the T500 better. I use a firewire interface > (Saffire) but always with a PCMCIA TI Firewire card, disabling the > built-in > firewire interface. > > Got the T500 on ebay (with 2gb mem) for €160 and the T61 (w 2gb mem) > also on > Ebay for €115. > > Windows 8 is on one of my older T60machines, but I don't really like it > much > and I've found no clear advantages over Win7 while using it so far. > > Just my two cents... for free ;-) > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Michael Peters <mp@mpeters.de> wrote: >> >> I've been using Bidule on a Sony Vaio with 32bit Windows Vista for some >> years and I'm thinking of getting a new laptop, Windows 7 or 8. I would >> use >> it primarily for music, mostly for Bidule, sometimes also for Ableton >> Live. >> >> The old Vista laptop works fine in principle, with two related problems: >> >> 1. I use many 3rd party VST plugins. They all run ok but something about >> them (their memory management I guess) is often not stable and >> especially in >> large setups, this leads to Bidule crashing or hanging when I close >> Bidule. >> Sometimes Bidule hangs so bad I have to unplug USB devices to make the >> process go away. After this, it often takes several attempts to make >> all the >> USB devices work correctly again. Of course, this is not something you >> want >> to happen in a live situation. Actually it would be nice if I could make >> several smaller specialized setups and switch between them for different >> pieces, but that is not reliable enough, so I ended up basically using >> one >> HUGE setup that contains everything I might ever need, so I don't have >> to >> switch. >> >> 2. Of course the big downside of this approach is that many plugins eat >> up >> processor power even when I don't need them. Going close to or beyond >> 100% >> processor usage happens often. Of course this is also something you >> don't >> need in a live situation. >> >> So, a new machine with more power. I don't want Apple machines for >> several >> reasons that don't need to be discussed here, so: >> >> - Windows 7 or 8 ? >> >> - 32bit or 64bit? I think most of the plugins I use are 32bit. Is >> there a >> downside to using a 64bit Windows and 64bit Bidule anyway? >> >> - What are the technical parameters that would make Bidule most happy? >> >> - My old laptop was heavy. Are there ultrabooks that are fast enough? >> >> - Any recommendations? >> >> 1000 thanks >> >> -Michael > > > > > -- > Robert C Thomas, Gütersloh, Germany > Handy 0176 504 36157 - Home 05241 307 1777