RE: Looping with a PC laptop... which one?

["Jonathan" <ssrndpty@hotmail.com>]

>Keep in mind guy, if you just want to run Live, you don't need much
power at all.

That should be guys - it was meant for everyone. Running 4 or so tracks
of audio from memory at once is relatively trivial for modern pcs. Isn't
progress wonderful? I'll even give jet my jet boots for this one.

bIz


-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan [mailto:ssrndpty@hotmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 2:38 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: RE: Looping with a PC laptop... which one?



What kind of memory does it use? The very old model P4s came with PC133
style memory - which made them functionally about 1/4 to a 1/2 as fast
as an equivalently clocked P4 with enough memory bandwidth - couldn't
even compete with a slower clocked P3. Also, is it a Celeron? Again, a
performance drop, though nothing like as bad. Otherwise, I'll be looking
out for this.

Keep in mind guy, if you just want to run Live, you don't need much
power at all.

Thanks,

bIz

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Trenkel [mailto:improv@peak.org] 
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 12:41 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: Looping with a PC laptop... which one?


>On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 11:42  AM, Jonathan wrote:
>
>>
>>I'll second that. Just stay away - we aren't part of their target
>>market.
>>
>
>Hahahaha.  Nice.  They do loop in stereo though, no?
>
>Playing devil's advocate, I started wondering, does any hardware device

>do what Live does?
>
>Just wondering.  I still think a laptop may be the best route to do 
>what I'm trying to do, I'm just seeing that most recommended laptops 
>are a bit out of my price range.  So far, only HP seems to make one 
>under a grand.  Lot's of people rave about the Vaios, but man are they 
>spendy, I might as well buy an Apple.
>
>Mark

My Thinkpad was just under a grand at PCConnection.com. It was the 
only Pentium 4-based laptop I could find for under a grand, and I 
believe it is an older model. I see now that they have the R32 2G P4 
for $1099, if you want to go a little over a grand. Mine is a 1.8G, 
and it seems to run Live and Reason quite well.