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Going to the darkside and buying a pc laptop for work (huge apple fan).  I'd also like 
to use the laptop for exs/logic/softsynths/reason, etc, specifically for playing live.

Any must have's to make the laptop music friendly, such as Pentium 4 mobile, 
hyperthreading, minimum ram, bus speed?  Any brands or issues or things to avoid?  

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated...and if there is a better place to post this, 
please let me know.

Thanks!

will_ritter [mailto:will_ritter@...] :
>Going to the darkside and buying a pc laptop for work (huge apple fan).

Make sure you have a good torch and ample batteries. ;-)

>Any brands or issues or things to avoid?  

Read up in the october issue of Sound on sound. There is a great article
on how to go about when choosing a modern pc laptop for music. You can
probably find it on their website as well. With or without online
subscription.

Cheers,
Herbert Boland
www.zepmusic.com
(Living on the darkside)

--- In exs-users@yahoogroups.com, "Herbert Boland" <yahoo@z...> wrote:
> will_ritter [mailto:will_ritter@y...] :
> >Going to the darkside and buying a pc laptop for work (huge apple fan).
> 
> Make sure you have a good torch and ample batteries. ;-)
> 
> >Any brands or issues or things to avoid?  
> 
> Read up in the october issue of Sound on sound. There is a great article
> on how to go about when choosing a modern pc laptop for music. You can
> probably find it on their website as well. With or without online
> subscription.
> 
> Cheers,
> Herbert Boland
> www.zepmusic.com
> (Living on the darkside)


Thanks Herbert!

EEK!  At 13.95 for a three issue subscripion to read the article (protected)...can 
anyone give me a quick synopsis? or is it worth it to read the whole thing and pay?

Thanks again,

Will

--- In exs-users@yahoogroups.com, "Herbert Boland" <yahoo@z...> wrote:
> Read up in the october issue of Sound on sound. There is a great 
> article on how to go about when choosing a modern pc laptop for music.

> You can probably find it on their website as well. With or without 
> online subscription.

will_ritter [mailto:will_ritter@...] :
>EEK!  At 13.95 for a three issue subscripion to read the article
(protected)...can 
>anyone give me a quick synopsis? or is it worth it to read the whole
thing and pay?

Will, this article covers a lot of topics. But in general I find SOS a
good read for music, recording and computer related stuff. So I wouldn't
be too reluctant about it.
 
 Cheers,
 Herbert Boland
 www.zepmusic.com