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what laptops does everyone use with live?

i need one thats stable as a rock. ive been told g4 powerbooks are the way to go except ild really prefer a pc.

can a pc achieve the stability that i need or is the mac the only way to go?

thanks in advance

Pickle

Pickle wrote: what laptops does everyone use with live?

i need one thats stable as a rock. ive been told g4 powerbooks are the way to go except ild really prefer a pc.

can a pc achieve the stability that i need or is the mac the only way to go?

thanks in advance

Pickle

IBM Thinkpad T22... mine had been rock solid with Live, I've done about half a dozen perfomances so far and not a single crash, and this with 14 simultaneous tracks, each with several effects.

G4 running osx is the MOST STABLE and in my opinion, the best performance solution

my 667mhz G4 TiBook is running Live like a dream. this software rules.

I use a dell inspiron 8100 PC Laptop ( no audio bug anymore ). everythings works fine. OS is win2000.

no doubt, them g4's run like hog, but my satellite 3000-514 runs like a weasel.......
even without ASIO, 7ms latency (!)

i use a sony vaio XG700, pentium III 750mhz 256ram
and VXpocket card, and i have no problems at all,
works fine, just you need to disable the factory vaio audio sound card.
cheers
Pepe Mogt www.milrecords.com

does anyone have any problems with the dell 8100 to report? one of the former posts was super-positive.....

thanx for any feedback.... am currently deciding between mac and dell or sony

just got a sony Vaio GR370, fast as shit, upgraded the RAM so now its even faster and works better than my desktop machine. Using emagic 2|6 as the audio in/out. this setup really works well...

i'm using a toshiba satellite 1805-s273, 1ghz p3 with 512 megs ram. windows 2k professional OS and lots of performance tweaks...and running all of my loops off of a 60 gig firewire HD and have had no problems in live performances.

i keep a seperate user profile just for live performances with every non-essential system app turned off (virus shield, start-up apps disabled etc) and just the required pgms/apps enabled in this "performance" profile, and i usually de-frag my HD just prior to a performance...this set-up has been working fantastic for me.

I use a PowerBook G4 500MHz system - 1GB RAM and a 48GB drive - w/ an Oxygen/8. Love it.

Dave

I just got the dell i8100... i like it but it is going back because my 828 is not working great on it. I have come to the conclusion that the ieee1394 chip is not of high quality, so my audio cuts out. Also the 1/8 out on the machine is real noise!!! ReAl!!! -> that is if you have the ac power pluged in. I am getting a sony gr390 now...

::chris_borgia::

I use a G4 titanium 667 1,000 megs of ram. its ideal fast never crashed yet and thats with using waves and tc elctronics plugins and spektral delay. just bonuce alot of loops in logic 5 and wallla........

ps and you aint supporting no bill gates

do you using an external soundcard or (just)the soundcard inside the g4?

http://www.apple.com/uk/powerbook/

this is what i'd be going for if i had the choice. i use a 500mhz powerbook right now, but i reckon apple might have solved the cache problem with their new models so you should get the maximum benefit of the quicker processor. And a 60gb drive would be handy too...