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Hi
I'm trying to make up my mind which laptop to use on stage. The band I'm with produce very bass-heavy noises with a lot of vibration and I need a very stable laptop. The machine has to handle Wav samples running on either a tracker or CD Architect.

Any suggestions?

Thanks :?:

dude if your running a tracker use any older laptop, I used my toshiba satellite with windows 95, but you mean a mass amount of samples? get a vaio, or any instance get anything besides an acer or any other A company, I used a dell Inspiron notebook, its all about the OS and programs, and the sound driver firmware, thats pretty much it. The laptop itself is just pieces...

Having owned one for a year now, I can safely say my next laptop (probably everyone from here on out) will be a thinkpad. My R61 has been rock solid and has all sorts of niceties like a solid metal chassis, hard drive shockmounting, keyboard light (soooo handy onstage), PCMCIA and expresscard slots, touchpad/pointing stick (yay redundancy.) The closest model to mine would be the R400 which starts at around $750 I believe.

Do you cosidering going Apple way?
Maybe old powerbook if you are on budet.

And btw. they look sexy. ^^

For me personally there are only two brands of laptops. IBM (now Lenovo) and Apple.
Apple for the software, IBM/Lenovo for the hardware.
I've seen quite a few faulty Apple laptops, and heard MANY horror stories, so the build quality isn't all that (anymore?).

But in laptops the same goes as ANYWHERE: you get what you pay for. Get a cheap laptop and it will be bad build quality.
Imho, if you don't need the latest and greatest, get yourself an IBM (not lenovo) of the latest generations (i.e. the latest IBM series, not Lenovo), and get a T or X series.
I own a T60p and those things are virtually indestructible AND light.
I also own a macbook pro 17", I love it, but if I would have to buy again, I would get a smaller one

- Bram