Re: Ways to get more power in laptop setups

[mark sottilaro <zerocrossing2001@yahoo.com>]

WANTED.

Mark

--- Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill
<rs@moinlabs.de> wrote:

> As I have gone laptop recently, and I'm somewhat
> notorious for using huge
> amounts of different instruments and effects, the
> computer performance is an
> issue for me.
> 
> I have thought about TC Electronic's powercore
> firewire, which would allow
> me to take at least the "normal" effects (like EQs,
> compressors, filters,
> reverb etc.) off the main CPU. But then again, the
> price of this thing is
> about the same as a 3+ GHz Turion or 1.7GHz Centrino
> DualCore, together with
> 1GB of RAM and 17'' screen and whatnot...
> 
> So the question is: if I had that kind of money,
> would it be invested better
> into a powercore firewire or into another computer
> (not necessarily laptop),
> or into a completely different solution.
> 
> Keep replies offlist, please; I'll post a summary to
> the list if wanted.
> 
>       Rainer 
> 
> 


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