Mac to PC switch and which labtop to buy for best performanc

bathyscaaf · Post by **bathyscaaf** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 5:24 am

I'm pretty damn happy with my Toshiba Tecra M4 tablet. I got it for about $800 as a refurb from the Toshibadirect.com site -- new it would have been $2400. I don't know what they were thinking. It's the only tablet with the power/screen resolution around.

You don't knows what you'll be getting with the refurb, it's just luck of the draw. I lucked out - a bunch of the options came with it: DVD burner, 802.11g wireless, bluetooth.

Standard stuff:
Centrino, Standard firewire (iLink, so small connection/non-powered I think), gigabyte ethernet, nvidia go 6200, 802.11b (if you get the base model), 1400x1050 screen resolution,USB 2.0, cardBus, etc. And it's a convertable tablet, so you can just twiest the screen around and use your pen. Unfortunately the virtual knobs (and other maneuverings) in Live are very sensitive to the pen - I'm trying to find a fix for that....

macdeath · Post by **macdeath** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 4:55 pm

this fool obviously is unfamiliar with the

oh thats how the pros talk dear...

i am defnately not a pro but for recording i dont think that floating point is the best you should choose...

stinky · Post by **stinky** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 5:17 pm

For anyone that's thinking about Mac Intel in January, i want to let you know that it'll only be ibooks... i don't think anyone will want to use an ibook for performance.. in addition to that, i wouldn't want to have a first gen either... better to wait for the powerbooks, before you start thinking about switching, otherwise you'll probably be disappointed... as far as pc's go, you wanna think centrino (suggest toshiba)/amd64, for laptop performance.... hp/compaq sucks, parts suck and company has poor direction... sager's are compelling, but $$$.. Also, fujitsu... check out http://www.laptopsinc.com and http://www.clearanceclub.com

djsynchro · Post by **djsynchro** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 8:27 pm

Daduk wrote: * good looking *

I have an OK looking laptop (HP) silver, rounded corners, but certainly not as good looking as an Apple.

Today I made a massive Ableton (Company logo) sticker it covers 3/4 of the lid. I reminds me of those coolass logo's the classic analogue synths had facing the audience... Moog, Sequential.

Sexy!

quandry · Post by **quandry** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 10:34 pm

drush wrote: regarding #4: remember you aren't going to get a powered firewire port on a PC. to my knowledge there's never been a PC that comes with a 6-pin FW port. they're all 4-pin, i.e. passive.

this doesn't really matter for you though. you're going to want to plug in that 828 so a 4-pin FW port is fine. remember that you want a Texas Instruments (TI) firewire board if you can get it. FW can sometimes be flaky on PCs when internals aren't high quality.

umm "totally" not true on the powered firewire not existing on pc laptops. a few posts above yours in this thread, detroitechno raves about his powered firewire laptop pc, an Acer Travelmate. My brother has a powered 6-pin Gateway laptop. Surely there are others and more on the way.

shaneblyth · Post by **shaneblyth** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 2:52 am

well you should of waited to see what happens with systems at mac world.
gee then you might have the same hardware and run osx and windows ont eh same system.. i am counting down the days to update my powerbook

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