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I don't know about current Dell models but a looper friend of mine who used to be on this list (Jon El-Bizri) had enormous trouble with his Dell and ground hum. He warned me to stay away. I've heard others say that Dell stuff is more or less crap marketed to the masses. When I was shopping for my laptop I found people using Thinkpads to be very happy with them. One of the people who does audio for our company swore by his Toshiba. Toshiba was doing a really nice sale when I was about to buy a Thinkpad, so I went with one and I'm really happy with it. You can check out prices at toshibadirect.com. I found I could get a better spec'd machine for less, but I had about $1500 to play with after I returned my Looperlative. Lots of people say they're too expensive, but my friend likes his Sony VAIO and he uses it for music as well. As for Audio interfaces... I didn't go hog wild. M-Audio Firewire Solo (DON'T GO USB1) seems to do a great job. Oh yeah, I liked the fact that Toshiba had built in firewire. If I had the chance to do it again I may have gotten an interface that had a few more ins and outs, but frankly I'm very happy with my current set up. I can get a few softsynths running, a couple of stereo tracks of loops running just nicely. Mark --- mark t <aleatoric12@gmail.com> wrote: > After doing some research this is probably the route > I will take! > Will take some time or selling of gear to afford one > though (not that > they are THAT expensive but I am poor!). thanks. > > On 7/17/06, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 17 jul 2006, at 11.50, mark t wrote: > > > > > What about a Dell D40? I found one with 1GB of > RAM for $450. Excuse > > > my ignorance I am a long term mac user but want > to get a PC soley for > > > Mobuis but do not want to spend alot. thanks. > > > > > > Don't know about Dell. But I've heard you can run > Mobius fine on an > > intel mac if using Boot Camp (free Apple utility) > to run Windows XP > > on it. I would go for that option if I should need > a laptop today, > > since I work a lot with computers and find OS X > faster than XP in my > > daily working situation (and is cheaper than > having both a mac and a > > pc, as I have for now). For that alternative you > would still need to > > shell out for a Windows XP license though. Those > small Macbooks look > > very nice and cheap. > > > > Greetings from Sweden > > > > Per Boysen > > www.boysen.se (Swedish) > > www.looproom.com (international) > > http://tinyurl.com/fauvm (podcast) > > http://www.myspace.com/looproom > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com