Hi all,
It's nearly time for me to buy my Laptop for use with Live, live. Through a scheme at work I can get this laptop tax-free (a saving of over 22%!). I would be interested to hear your thoughts on it:
FujitsuSiemens Amilo M 1437G Pentium M 1.87GHz / 1024MB / 80GB / TFT15.4 / DVDRW / WinXP Home
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Does anyone know what the HD speed is in this laptop and how easy it is to change if necessary? The other things I am most concerned about is the display resolution 1280x800 and the battery life, only 2 hours.
I've searched the Ableton forums but can't see much info on the Amilo M Series
If anyone has experience of using the Amilo M series laptops with Live it would be great to hear from you.
Thanks very much.
Thoughts on this Fujisu Siemens Laptop with Live please
Thoughts on this Fujisu Siemens Laptop with Live please
Windows 11, Live 12.3 (64 bit)
sorry, not familiar with this model.
two things to point out though.
1) battery life only 2 hours. not great, but if you are playing any gig, anywhere which has a power supply then use it. ok it is an extra cable to carry around, but that is better than the thing crapping out on you half way through
2) changing hard drive speed. on a lappie this is difficult for most novices (me included). the easiest option is to buy a usb or firewire external at whatever speed you want, also then you can expand you drive space quite substantially.
two things to point out though.
1) battery life only 2 hours. not great, but if you are playing any gig, anywhere which has a power supply then use it. ok it is an extra cable to carry around, but that is better than the thing crapping out on you half way through
2) changing hard drive speed. on a lappie this is difficult for most novices (me included). the easiest option is to buy a usb or firewire external at whatever speed you want, also then you can expand you drive space quite substantially.
MBP 2.4 & a shit load of Faderfoxes!
I personally have never had much luck with Pentium M processors. They skimp on alot of processing power for the sake of power and such. So if are willing to buy a laptop with only 2 hours of battery power, look into www.Sagernotebook.com
I got a real pentium 4 laptop there (4791 model) and in general, their laptops are much cheaper. They are actually the company doing the majority of work for Alienware, but Alienware uses their own cases and jacks up the price another grand or so.
This is just my humble opinion, but take in to consideration that I am completely a full on computer geek by day (and profession) and a musician by night
To give you an idea of how my laptop performs with Live, it's a Pentium 3.6, 1 gig of RAM. I run between 24 and 32 tracks at a time, most with compression or random effects going, and it takes up about 90% of the processor power but hasn't once skipped or dropped out on me. (Except for the one time I had 49 tracks going, but no one ever really needs 7 different kick drums blended together).
I got a real pentium 4 laptop there (4791 model) and in general, their laptops are much cheaper. They are actually the company doing the majority of work for Alienware, but Alienware uses their own cases and jacks up the price another grand or so.
This is just my humble opinion, but take in to consideration that I am completely a full on computer geek by day (and profession) and a musician by night
To give you an idea of how my laptop performs with Live, it's a Pentium 3.6, 1 gig of RAM. I run between 24 and 32 tracks at a time, most with compression or random effects going, and it takes up about 90% of the processor power but hasn't once skipped or dropped out on me. (Except for the one time I had 49 tracks going, but no one ever really needs 7 different kick drums blended together).
