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Re: Laptops again

i'm sorry to be so simplistic in my answer, but just do it! 

I'd do a macbookpro in general cuz to my mind you're dealing with better quality there, but in general your friend's experience mirrors many of ours.  

You don't need to look very much beyond fastest proc and max ram, after that, the world is your oyster, in either windows or OSX formats!  just get a good sound interface, the archives list everyone's prefs as to that.   and the software you mention, all rock, and check out SooperLooper for Mac in addition to Augustus Loop if you wish to loop, then you have two really different kinds of looping tools to play with. 

and now wait for all of the other answers to pile on as usual from this brilliant bunch. 

All best, Kevin. Todd

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Kevin Cheli-Colando <billowhead@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm sorry to feel the need to ask the laptop question here again, but here I am, staring that option in the face and getting a bit perplexed honestly.  So once again, a question to this fantastically knowledgeable group.

I'm considering going the laptop route primarily for video control and projection work, but I also think that I would like to try the musical laptop thing out as well so I'm trying to figure out what I actually need and can afford to do this.  I have limited resources and can't really stretch much farther than they are so its not good to know that for another $$$$ I could have Y that is much better than the lesser priced X.

So, fastest processor and max RAM are a given, but what do I need to look at beyond that?

I have a friend running a Macbook loaded with Live, Reactor, Augustus Loop, etc that looks to be well suited to the task and seems to work a charm so I have thought about a Macbook
  • 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
  • 2GB memory

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