hi
am about to get a new laptop and have had my eyes on the inspiron 6000.
does anyone have any experience with it yet? any pros/cons? heard there might be issues using it for sound due to the PCI-x video but it may be a viscious rumour.
i would be using it with an M-Audio Firewire Audiophile and running ableton live 4.04 and FLstudio.
thanks!
cusp
laptop advice please
hmmm, but here in New Zealand I can get the inspiron 6000 for about the same price as the 8600 and i PCI-e aside the bus is faster as is the ram. so i guess what i am wondering is will i be disadvantaged by getting this laptop?
Its a hard call between the newer system or the 8600 and im not sure if the 6000 is okay for audio or not?
thoughts?
cheers!
Its a hard call between the newer system or the 8600 and im not sure if the 6000 is okay for audio or not?
thoughts?
cheers!
I run a much, much crappier laptop and I have decent results. It's a dell Inspiron 1100 with a 2.0 GHz Celeron (NON-M!!). I usually run out of cpu about half way through the song and I have to start streaming my tracks to audio to keep going (I write everything in Live and don't record anything).
My point is, even though my laptop is crappy, it still works fine for audio. The only reason it kinda sucks is because of the cpu. The whole idea of a computer that is "good for audio" is marketing crap designed to sell computers to audio people who (potentially) don't know any better (sorry, i'm not trying to offend anyone here but I think it's the cold truth. I've seen "audio" computers that were the same as an average dell being sold for twice the price because they stuck a decent audio card in it and made sure it worked).
The only thing you can say for sure is the better the computer, the better it will be for audio. All the same stuff that makes a machine good for gaming, video editing, or any other intesive tasks are the same for audio. A fast bus, fast memory, fast cpu, fast hard drive, separate video memory and chip to offload those tasks from the cpu and main memory.
Anyway, I'm rambling. The 6000 looks good to me. Make sure you get Pentium-M and NOT the celeron. Also get 512MB of RAM. It would also be helpful to have a 5400rpm harddrive or even 7200rpm if you can get it. I wouldn't personally buy a laptop with a screen less than 1280x1024 especially for Live.
I can't imagine why pci-e would make a shred of difference other than making it faster because the video has a wider bus to work with. Sounds like a rumor to me but I've seen stranger problems when it comes to computers.
If you wanted the best laptop PC, I'd get an IBM but they're pretty expensive.
-r
My point is, even though my laptop is crappy, it still works fine for audio. The only reason it kinda sucks is because of the cpu. The whole idea of a computer that is "good for audio" is marketing crap designed to sell computers to audio people who (potentially) don't know any better (sorry, i'm not trying to offend anyone here but I think it's the cold truth. I've seen "audio" computers that were the same as an average dell being sold for twice the price because they stuck a decent audio card in it and made sure it worked).
The only thing you can say for sure is the better the computer, the better it will be for audio. All the same stuff that makes a machine good for gaming, video editing, or any other intesive tasks are the same for audio. A fast bus, fast memory, fast cpu, fast hard drive, separate video memory and chip to offload those tasks from the cpu and main memory.
Anyway, I'm rambling. The 6000 looks good to me. Make sure you get Pentium-M and NOT the celeron. Also get 512MB of RAM. It would also be helpful to have a 5400rpm harddrive or even 7200rpm if you can get it. I wouldn't personally buy a laptop with a screen less than 1280x1024 especially for Live.
I can't imagine why pci-e would make a shred of difference other than making it faster because the video has a wider bus to work with. Sounds like a rumor to me but I've seen stranger problems when it comes to computers.
If you wanted the best laptop PC, I'd get an IBM but they're pretty expensive.
-r
good call. thanks randyh!
i thought it may be a viscious roumor about pci-e, i would have thought it could only be a good thing. unless there was some strange bandwidth shaping on the pci bus that was geared toward video use rather than anything else..
ill go with a 6000. 1.86 pentium-m, 1gb ram. cant wait
i thought it may be a viscious roumor about pci-e, i would have thought it could only be a good thing. unless there was some strange bandwidth shaping on the pci bus that was geared toward video use rather than anything else..
ill go with a 6000. 1.86 pentium-m, 1gb ram. cant wait