Ableton on Lenovo ThinkPad

breakphreak · Post by **breakphreak** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 7:06 pm

Hey there!

Rare case, but I am considering the following configuration: Ableton on Lenovo ThinkPad X200, comfortable and powerful enough for music production during long journeys. Hence, a few questions:

1. Did anyone here experienced music production, utilizing any of Lenovo laptops (maybe even Lenovo X series)?

2. If "yes", what was/is your operation system (probably, XP and not Vista)

3. If "yes", what was/is your soundcard? (My bet is Echo Indigo IO).

4. I would be glad to hear more recommendations, not including the obvious MacBook-related option.

thanks a lot for the knowledge sharing
BreakPhreak

misteron · Post by **misteron** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 7:47 pm

I'm not excatly the candidate u want as mine is a IBM Think Pad.
Using Indigo IO and XP Pro.
At least 4 years old (bought it 2nd hand).
Built like a tank!!
Greaat battery life and fast

matsimpson · Post by **matsimpson** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 8:00 pm

Mines a Lenovo R series think pad, and like misteron says its built like a tank. I use XP, and Line 6 Toneport for guitar recording, DJ I/O for live use, and if i cant plug them in for whatever reason I'll just use the onboard soundcard. Live runs really nice and smooth, no problems even with lots of effects and using it live. Great battery life, and the "thinklight" is really useful in the dark. I would definitely recommend it.

raw · Post by **raw** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 9:44 pm

Hi,

I have a Thinkpad T61 (ND218FR)..
With live 7, XP Pro, works perfectly with Native Instrument Audio Kontrol 1 and RME Fireface 400. (excellent performance with a second HD in ultrabay slim..)

rikhyray · Post by **rikhyray** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 12:21 am

T61, EMU 1616m. Main reasons for selecting IBM were PCMCIA, build quality, do lots of live work, read road/stage abuse and better cooling then MBP or Vaio which is important for my video work>running 100% CPU for hours.
Display is not as good as MBP or Vaio.
It is Vista Business but I got it set with XP pro(free of charge) and will probably never use Vista.
For really portable notebook Vaio SZ series are the best, amazing battery life 3x longer then MBP or Thinkpad and they have both express and PCMCIA (and all TI chips)