dell xps m1530 experiences
dell xps m1530 experiences
Anybody have any experience running Live 7 on a Dell M1530 under Vista, either 32 bit or 64 bit?
Ive had my 1530 since feb and its run amazingly since then. Ive had one crash and that was because i overloaded live with about 8 instances of kore and 10 instances of massive so understandably it shutdown.
Vista has run extremely well, but due to the fact im running with no graphical enhancements and under the 98 skin. Ive used it live twice with quite a few tracks playing and alot of live effects using my bcr and kore2 controller and only ever got to about 25% cpu usage. 2 gigs of ram and 2.2ghz dual core with alright battery life (maybe an hour and a half at full with the smaller battery] Im very happy with it, i could of held off until now to get one as i didnt use it much when i initially bought it, but it runs better then the macbook i got from school and thats a 2.0ghz dual core. My dell weighs less and has a bigger screen then my brick of a macbook.
Vista has run extremely well, but due to the fact im running with no graphical enhancements and under the 98 skin. Ive used it live twice with quite a few tracks playing and alot of live effects using my bcr and kore2 controller and only ever got to about 25% cpu usage. 2 gigs of ram and 2.2ghz dual core with alright battery life (maybe an hour and a half at full with the smaller battery] Im very happy with it, i could of held off until now to get one as i didnt use it much when i initially bought it, but it runs better then the macbook i got from school and thats a 2.0ghz dual core. My dell weighs less and has a bigger screen then my brick of a macbook.
It runs much worse for me with any of the basic vista gui stuff. Run fantastic with the boring 98 look with all special stuff turned off. I dont mind the look however. Ive gotten away with running 12 instances of massive all on high quality with more then one voice on each instance along with drum racks with glitched up beats and ive gotten to about 60 -70% usage. It only starts to become a problem around 85-90% but that rarely happens for me since i like to bounce alot of my sounds to wav for more tweaking.XPS series are a good set of laptops. 1530 has a nice size monitor, the 13" is waay to small for me. Hope this helps.
-Erick
-Erick
Re: dell xps m1530 experiences
I have and i didn't enjoy it.kuniklo wrote:Anybody have any experience running Live 7 on a Dell M1530 under Vista, either 32 bit or 64 bit?
I formatted the machine MP1730 and disabled all the crap i didn't need i.e.all the wireless shit all the performance metering leds etc. Loaded all the custom drivers needed and XP Pro and it was a very nice machine in fact i would recommend it for a music DAW. The MP 1530 is not as powerful but i would think more suited to a DAW . Just make sure its not got the SLI variation as mine was. With SLI in the Laptop it must be powered all the time by powerpoint otherwise the screen will flicker. There was nothing in the manual about this by the way but when i rand Dell they told me it was nothing to worry about but a well known "inconvenience" of having the SLI option which was tripe as you can choose to enable or SLI and the flicker stays either way. But either way a very powerful machine and rock solid once you tweak it.
Hope that gives you some insight.
Also vista sucks ass.
In fact i'll second that with Microsoft licks bowel as well.
I have bought three versions of XP for three different machines and along the way I rebuild my PCs and reformat that many times trying to find the most stable environment for a DAW that microsoft decided to stop letting me try to activate my machines because they said it had been done too many times and that i would have to pursue it with administration as well as insinuating that i was using their products illegally.
Now i can tell you that was the Divining Fuck Up of all time on their part as i had spent a lot of money on their products not just OS's ,the office suites , Flight Sims, etc.. Now i know this wont be popular but its my opinion and how i feel so here it is. They are the only company of pirated software i condone!
I use a version made by someone i don't know who called LEO XP you can google it and it is like a XP/Vista/Leopard Hybrid . It is rock solid runs lean and looks great better than Vista and has a heap of very usefull features and Live runs like super mean on it. Best OS i have ever used and easiest to use .
Vista never got it right and never will it is too bloated and its aim is to counteract any freedom you would like to have over how you would like to use your machine and replace it with a convoluted system of misinformation and buggy drivers /less than stable OS and antipiracy measures (that tell my wifes PC that has legit Vista on it that it isn't legit every two to three months and locks her out ) that don't work correctly after what nearly 3 years.
I don't know any DAW builders that would choose VISTA if the customer asked them to choose a stable system to run their music software/souncard drivers/ and actually enjoy using the computer. Vista..Its a joke!
In fact i'll second that with Microsoft licks bowel as well.
I have bought three versions of XP for three different machines and along the way I rebuild my PCs and reformat that many times trying to find the most stable environment for a DAW that microsoft decided to stop letting me try to activate my machines because they said it had been done too many times and that i would have to pursue it with administration as well as insinuating that i was using their products illegally.
Now i can tell you that was the Divining Fuck Up of all time on their part as i had spent a lot of money on their products not just OS's ,the office suites , Flight Sims, etc.. Now i know this wont be popular but its my opinion and how i feel so here it is. They are the only company of pirated software i condone!
I use a version made by someone i don't know who called LEO XP you can google it and it is like a XP/Vista/Leopard Hybrid . It is rock solid runs lean and looks great better than Vista and has a heap of very usefull features and Live runs like super mean on it. Best OS i have ever used and easiest to use .
Vista never got it right and never will it is too bloated and its aim is to counteract any freedom you would like to have over how you would like to use your machine and replace it with a convoluted system of misinformation and buggy drivers /less than stable OS and antipiracy measures (that tell my wifes PC that has legit Vista on it that it isn't legit every two to three months and locks her out ) that don't work correctly after what nearly 3 years.
I don't know any DAW builders that would choose VISTA if the customer asked them to choose a stable system to run their music software/souncard drivers/ and actually enjoy using the computer. Vista..Its a joke!