I’ll second Frank’s advice and add that if you plan on doing any production using virtual synths, get an even larger hard drive. I have a 750Gb on my Dell and in 6 short months it has filled up considerably. Native Instruments Komplete 8 runs in at 380Gb and actually ships on a hard drive itself. If you can swing it, go Core I7. And don’t even trouble yourself with questions about Win 8 for a long while. It will be the next generation of Vista. Consider that Windows XP still has a huge install base, and is technically supported by MS until 2014. Windows 7 is a great OS and will be with us past 2020 no doubt, unless Microsoft listens to users about the Win 8 and provides a suitable path for business users. Also, my experience as a died in the wool Windows user, a lot of music stuff is written for Mac first and they lag in support for the latest windows releases. Protools LE only supported Win 7 recently, and that SW is history.
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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Off topic Analog Synths and laptops
More RAM (6-8 gigs) and then more hard drive if you can get it.
In a message dated 8/27/2012 2:13:27 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, mellotronmadness@yahoo.com.au writes:
Much to my surprise, and my wife's, I returned from a recent trip to Wellington without a new synthesizer, I tried out the Moog Slim Phatty and the DSI Mopho, I quite liked the Mopho but in the end I decided to stick with the Microkorg.
I also tried the Roland Gaia which has a great layout but to my ears a rather disappointing sound. Oddly enough if I was going to be tempted to buy another synthesizer it would be the M-Audio Venom.
Anyway with Windows 8 on the horizon I've decided to replace my 10 yr old laptop with something a bit more powerful.
I am computer literate but I haven't been following hardware for some years, I am looking at getting a laptop with an Intel I5 processor, 4 gig of ram and a 500 gig hard drive running windows 7.
I'll be using my usb sound card. I can't face getting to grips with Apple and anyway I've got too much pc software that I still want to use.
Anybody have any other suggestions or advice?
Thanks
Mark