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I agree with Kris. In addition, I suggest you check out www.pcaudiolabs.com. They build laptops with great options such as multiple hard drives , FW, tweeked for musicians. -Qua Original Message: ----------------- From: Krispen Hartung khartung@cableone.net Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:30:33 -0600 To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com Subject: Re: best laptop on the planet for music and video? I'm assuming you mean PC, because in the mac world, the macbook pro is pretty much the beast to get, right? For PCs, you can always spend countless hours comparing specs and reading user reviews loaded with generalizations and slams against manufactures, or you can just look for the top line consumer review metrics, from multiple sources of course, and then sort them out yourself based on your needs. http://www.consumersearch.com/www/computers/laptops/ shows Dell Inspiron XPS M1710 as the top rated. Macbook pro is down at #6. Although Consumer Reports shows the following: Apple Macbook Pro 15" Sony VAIO VGN-FE790 Dell Inspiron E1505 PC World has some interesting data and tests: http://www.pcworld.com/ic/laptops/# Top rated power notebook: HP Pavilion HDX Top rated All Purpose notebook: HP Pavilion dv6500t Top rated ultra portable notebook: Dell XPS M1210 Then there is my advise...for PCs....stay away from any consumer based notebook. Buy a business class or commerical class notebook. There is a reason why when you walk into the floor of a fortune 100 company, you don't see notebooks that are on display at BestBuy, CompUSA, etc. Manufucatures make about $15 on those notebooks. They are virtutally disposable and designed to reel in sales on consumables and accessories. Big businesses buy business class notebooks that are more robust, reliable, and designed to address their corporate performance and security requirements. Buy a business class notebook directly from the manufacuture...such as Lenovo, HP, etc. They are more expensive, but you pay for what you get. I spent $3600 on my Lenovo ThinkPad T60p...it is classified as a business class notebook workstation...you can use it as server. That price included a fully loaded support plan. If I have a hardware problem, a technician will actually come to my home and perform onsite repair, like that major companies do. Now, of course, the OCDs on this list will answer your question with "Well, it depends on your needs and what you want to do" and send you down numerous rat holes and technical analyses that will give you headache and complicate your decision tree, which is probably all valid...but we are talking about laptops here not $6000 custom guitars, and there is a lot of standardization across platforms now, such that the major differentiation you get now is between the consumer based models and the business class models, where you will actually be able to observe a different in performance and reliability. But if you end up buying a consumer based notebook....just pick one of the top rated boxes, get the one with the fastest duo core processor, the fastest harddrive, and with the most memory they offer (I recommend 2gig). And make sure it has the IO you need...be sure it has firewire and ample USB ports. Add a firewire audio interface and away you go. Kris Kris ----- Original Message ----- From: stillllscary@netzero.net To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 7:39 AM Subject: best laptop on the planet for music and video? what lappy has all the bells & whistles,built like a tank,huge display, enuff speed and power to achieve global domination....not necessarily in that order of priority? thanx, danisaurus hex(second from the left, top row of sgt. peppers cover) -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com – What can On Demand Business Solutions do for you? http://link.mail2web.com/Business/SharePoint