Jimmyillest
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The Hp beats edition laptop is good with music production . its also not that expensive . "Doesn't what you have its how you use it ".
My point is quite simple, most people who buy laptops for production don't have a legitimate need for portability and I want them to think about what it is costing them.
It's not like there are huge convoys of busses teaming with laptop producers criss crossing the country, or all the venues are booked out because every second person has a laptop, the reality is a lot of people buy laptops and never even move them.
So many dumb attitudes on here.
In 2004 i used to carry around 2 desktops one for the visual side of things and one for my live set
that was 9 years ago. Things have moved on since then quite a bit.
Pretty much every attack on using a laptop for production on here, seems to me to be a dogmatic
and irrelevent one.
If your doing a lot of intensive video work i don't see how you could do with out a desktop other then
that most of the arguments against laptops for music production are out of date.
A laptop uses on averge around 100 watts of power compared to 5/600 watts used for a desktop
if your not enviromentally consious about this by now perhaps you ought to be.
Music should be made to play out LIVE this means having a portable solution, I get the feeling
most opinons on here are coming from noobs who have not yet made it far enough that they
have had to deal with the reality of live music performance and are happy messing around in
there bedrooms. I used to drag desktops around becuase that was the ONLY option and what
a complete hassle that was trust me!
A modern laptop preferably a mac can handle almost anything audio related, I am totally pragmatic
about music production In that i am only intrested in what i need to achive the
goal at hand. a good quality modern laptop irrefutably fits this bill for me.
It is cheeper to get a faster desktop together BUT in the long run if your serious about getting
out there and actually doing stuff live with your music your going to need to buy a laptop
anyway sooner or later.
In the project studio I share we have with 32 channels of audio running from a live room i would in this instance
only concider the fastest desktop. But that along with my video post production work is really the only application for me. The modern live recording studio/Post production video suite, in my mind is the best place for a fast desktop
All other work and mixdown stuff i can do at home with my macbook pro I have a dual screen automatically and
everything runs as well as it could for me + that same machine allows me to work anywhere and do my live sets. whats not
to like unless your to skint to afford one.
I would certainly say if moneys a problem i would go with a Lenovo T61/T420 To get started on turn of all none essential drivers and run DPC LATENCY CHECKER (Lenovo also ground their motherboards properly on buisness machines like apple to avoid that ground hum!)
when you have more money, get a ssd, and use the ultra bay for a second HD and work your way up to a macbook when you can afford it
Each to their and all, but if one day you want to do more then just w**k off at home. your going to need a laptop.
Total rubbish hyperbole, It's sad that people are taken in by attitudes like this. POINTLESS USER BASED CYNICISM
I know many live electronic artists being one myself, the modern laptop has been the most valuble asset to come
around in decades your denile is beyond reproach and can be quickly regarded as meaningless rubbish.
"It's not like there are huge convoys of busses teaming with laptop producers criss crossing the country, or all the venues are booked out because every second person has a laptop"
Actually that is exactly what has been going on GLOBALLY by people who have been very succesfull in there endevours wakey wakey mate
Sorry to the rest of you for bringing antagonism to the thread I prefer it when people are exposed to sound arguments based on the real world not rubbish
"There are pros and cons to both laptops and desktops. Its up to the individual to decide what will be best suited for them"
Agreed, You would of done well to leave it at that instead you had to go off on an onslaught defending your
own individual choice YAWN
the busses are usually planes, paid for along with the usual rider by label bosses
and record companys. If your good enough and you promote yourself you will
get there with work and effort
"That is a day that may never come for many of the people on this board."
Exactly what i am talking about in regards to pointless cynicsm, what help is that to anyone starting of???
you should be boosting people with out much knowledge, not cutting them down there could be amazing potential
artists reading this that want sound advice not personal bigotry.
"Hip hop producers, by and large, have no desire to "play out"
Ok now your making gross generlizations for the entire hip hop community???? WTF just shut up
" In those days, you had to have real skill to pull off a live show, nowadays it's degraded to some chap bobbing his head behind a flippin laptop, frontin' like he's doing something. It's comical what passes as a "live" show these days."
Yea Yea anyone over 35 making music for that long started of on hardware gear. The laptop is best viewed
as the brain of operations, this is not about what addtional tools you use to perform live. Stick to the point
besides which i COULD NOT GIVE A FLYING F*** what some one uses to make music as long as the music
is high in quality and emotion
"-There's no real reason for an SSD. In fact, there's reason NOT to use them (finite r/w cycles, surprisingly high failure rates, cost, etc).#"
Totally inacurate statment A decent ssd will dramaticlly improve the performance of any os installed to it your a moron
i feel the same like everyone else on here. i need a laptop for my music production as i always have to have it whenever i come up with a new beat on my mind and there it is. i've had my Lenovo idea pad G575 from Radioshack for sometime now and it hasn't done the job like i expected it to be. It's not as fast as i want it to be so i'm left looking for a different laptop that will provide better speed and latency.
Why the hell are so many people constantly going out of their way to get wimpy portable computers for music production? what's the plan, take your laptop, external hard drive, external audio interface, studio monitors and keyboard to the cafe or park for a spot of light beat making?
Why the hell are so many people constantly going out of their way to get wimpy portable computers for music production? what's the plan, take your laptop, external hard drive, external audio interface, studio monitors and keyboard to the cafe or park for a spot of light beat making?
Interested in buying a Laptop PC for Music Production. Not a Mac, because I use FL Studio/I'm more comfortable with PCs. Any suggestions? Thank you in advanced.