dell inspiron 6400?

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heyfreak
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dell inspiron 6400?

Post by heyfreak » Sun Aug 06, 2006 6:25 am

Hey guys! im not sure if this is the right place to ask this, if not, tell me...;)

Im about to buy a laptop on which i plan to use ableton live for doing live sets and etc.

Ive been reccomended a lot the Dell Inspiron 6400 (instead of 512, 1 gb of RAM)....i know that its heavy but that wouldnt be a con..

So what im asking is if anyone can tell me if youve had any experience with this laptop or any of the previous Dell notebooks...id like to know a bit about what people have to say about these Dell notebooks, so if you can help me, please do!! :)

I produce with reason and live plus plugins and a couple more things and i would be using it only for audio composition...ive read in some comparison test, that this laptop beats the vaio, toshiba, mac laptops...(some of them of course i suppose)

Ill be waiting for your help! :!:
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Post by arctic ranger » Sun Aug 06, 2006 8:11 am

got a 6000
works like a charm
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Post by Michael-SW » Sun Aug 06, 2006 11:16 am

What is most important is what kind of CPU that is inside.
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Post by heyfreak » Sun Aug 06, 2006 3:30 pm

youre right!

this one is:

Intel® Core™ Duo T2050 (1.60 GHz / 533 MHz FSB)

Memory: 1.0GB,DDR2 SDRAM,2 DIMM,533MHz (1G2D)

Hard Disk of80GB a 5400rpm (80GB)

screen:15.4" XGA

etc etc etc----

:) :?:
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Post by Keithtron » Sun Aug 06, 2006 4:06 pm

I got an Alienware Area-51 m7700 laptop, and I absolutely LOVE it.

It has an Intel Pentium 4 Processor 531 w/ HT Technology (3.0GHz), 1Gb of memory, a 120 Gb RAID 0 hard drive (2 60Gb drives in a RAID 0 array), GeForce Go 7800 GTX video card, and the most beautiful 17" widescreen LCD that I've ever seen.

When it comes to Alienware the desktops seem pretty overpriced, but the notebooks are extremely comparable to other manufacturers. My only gripe was how awful the onboard sound card is, but if you're doing any sort of music production/performance, there's no way anyone would rely on ANY laptop onboard sound. Gotta get something external.

Oh, and I don't use mine for performing live, but for those of you that do, the Alienware aesthetic is AWESOME.
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Post by heyfreak » Mon Aug 07, 2006 2:09 am

great, thanks, yes i think all the onboard audio cards are always very bad...
ill keep in mind those laptops thought, thanks..

anyone have any expierence or anything to say about the Dell Insipiron 6400?..or any dell laptop?...
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Post by Architect » Mon Aug 07, 2006 2:44 am

I have a Dell Inspiron 6000 that I was using to run Ableton and a few other applications and I never had any problems. I've got mine maxxed out with 2GB of ram and an external harddrive for additional storage space. Like was mentioned before if the CPU, hard drive speed, memory is good then you should have no trouble. I got my Inspiron off of ebay for under a grand and then added the additional memory, reinstalled a fresh copy of XP optimized for audio, installed my applications and off I was.
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Post by hrsy » Sun Sep 03, 2006 12:33 am

I've got an Inspiron 6400 and I'm having all sorts of problems with Ableton :( The sound just cuts out and stops every 10 minutes or so.

If you do end up getting one - please let me know how you go with it.
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heyfreak
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Post by heyfreak » Sun Sep 03, 2006 1:55 am

really?
youre having problems?..

thats bad news for me, this week im gonna buy this inspiron6400.
I have another friend who bought one of the new dell laptops, and he isnt having any problems at all...but now im a bit put off by this...

are you sure the problem is not ableton itself and not your laptop?..

anybody else here has something to say about the dell inspiron6400?..
PLEASE HELP US! :!:
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jlezard
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buy an ibm

Post by jlezard » Sun Sep 03, 2006 7:23 pm

ibm makes extremly solid laptops , I have been using t43p with ableton and it has never failed me
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Post by atp » Mon Sep 04, 2006 3:45 am

I'm using aan inspiron 6400 with 2GB ram and a 2.16Ghz Dual Core processor. No complaints at all. It runs live perfectly (touch wood). I have just re-formatted it too, so I can get rid of all the Dell crap they pile on it. The Dell's do coem with a warranty so if anything goes wrong, call them!
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Post by hrsy » Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:30 am

heyfreak wrote:really?
youre having problems?..

thats bad news for me, this week im gonna buy this inspiron6400.
I have another friend who bought one of the new dell laptops, and he isnt having any problems at all...but now im a bit put off by this...

are you sure the problem is not ableton itself and not your laptop?..

anybody else here has something to say about the dell inspiron6400?..
PLEASE HELP US! :!:
Yeah, see this thread here:

http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=46351

Still unresolved :| Really weird problem.
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