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Planning to buy a laptop for 1500-1800 dollars, so put up your laptop info what you use in Ableton Live and do have latency problems with this one?

ASUS Eee PC and spend the $1500 you saved on cool hardware stuff

Only joking. How about a MacBook and a good firewire soundcard? That should fit in your budget and latency requirements, no?

Dell Latitude D620

the sony vaio AR series kicks ass and it has two hard drives set up for a raid system. Super fast interface!

Just make sure ANY lap top brand you get has the Texas Insturement FW chip set in it.

Moody wrote:Dell Latitude D620

you have this? price seems to be good, hows it run in Ableton 6, no latency problems? can i connect a good firewire soundcard to it?

Dell customer service sucks!


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Fhlouz wrote:

Moody wrote:Dell Latitude D620

you have this? price seems to be good, hows it run in Ableton 6, no latency problems? can i connect a good firewire soundcard to it?

Been using the Latitudes for years with no proplems. Of course I do not have to deal with their customer suport either.

Apple 12" G4 PowerBook. It's awesome and I've had ZERO problems with it (running Logic, Battery, Reaktor, Reason etc...).

Once you go Mac, you never go back.

Ma....oh skip it.

Mine is old, but maybe you could look into the Sager brand, which is the same as Alienware without the custom cases and shit. Anyway, mine is a Sager NP8887.

Dell's customer service does not suck in my experience.

I have owned 4 dell desktop and 3 laptops and on the one machine I needed a couple of tec support issues they were very professional.

Of course, the fact they are based in India means you have to be a little more patient and tolerant, but I had no problems, although having to go through the online diagnostic was a bit of a PITA when you know the motherboard is fried. but beyond 10 minutes taken out of my life, no probs. And courteous.

Dell just has haters, usually mac owners or rednecks who don't like the fact that johnny foreigners are doing the job.

leedsquietman wrote:Dell's customer service does not suck in my experience.

I have owned 4 dell desktop and 3 laptops and on the one machine I needed a couple of tec support issues they were very professional.

Of course, the fact they are based in India means you have to be a little more patient and tolerant, but I had no problems, although having to go through the online diagnostic was a bit of a PITA when you know the motherboard is fried. but beyond 10 minutes taken out of my life, no probs. And courteous.

Dell just has haters, usually mac owners or rednecks who don't like the fact that johnny foreigners are doing the job.

Dell's support is no longer based in India due to customer complaints. Been back in the US for a couple of years now.

Thanks. None of my 7 Dell computers has had an issue for nearly 2 and a half years, I have found the reliability to be good in 6 of 7 and the one machine that wasn't has been OK for 2 and a half years after having 2 seperate issues fixed.

Also - the Indian customer service were actually fine when I needed them. Maybe the fact I'm Canadian helps, where I live has lots of Indian people and I'm quite used to their accent.

I wouldn't say the service was exceptional but it was reasonably good and typically all computer firms have lots of complaints about their service, I know HP, Toshiba and Sony do too. Also Apple, unless you purchased an AppleCare program are not exactly known to be warm and fuzzy, quite a few complaints there too.