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I want to get a laptop, mainly for recording my vinyl and recording mixes and stuff, a little writing on the fly at work etc, and one day perhaps for Ableton/Reason etc.

I don't have an unlimited amount of money, I guess I'm wondering what a good sort of entry level choice would be, general advice or brands to avoid. I mean, some are as cheap as 450 euro or so, but I'm guessing these are crap?

Any advice appreciated.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

revive

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 14 September 2006 08:09 (nineteen years ago)

wasnt this talked about on ilm just yesterday? i think so.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 14 September 2006 08:13 (nineteen years ago)

Are macs better than pc for djing with? Plus, Laptop DJs, list your spec

hmm maybe not... sorry not much help

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 14 September 2006 08:14 (nineteen years ago)

i'd be interested in what people think here, about budget laptops, interested in something that will just do the basics, but as cheap as poss. may also consider junking windows, and installing linux (depending on whether the user of this laptop can cope with a non-windows box)

― -- (688), Thursday, 14 September 2006 08:37 (nineteen years ago)

I don't really want to use it for DJing as such.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 14 September 2006 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

I just got this laptop this week. It's a fujitsu siemens, and it's been pretty good so far. Really quiet, and doesn't seem to mind when I'm playing mp3s and doing other stuff at the same time (My old computer couldn't multitask without stuttering)

And I got it for £500

― jellybean (jellybean), Thursday, 14 September 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

Does anyone know anything about the dell XPS laptop? My budget is £1200ish, anybody know of anything better at that price?

I’ll be mainly be using it for picture storage & editing, music (storing and recording, DVD’s and a bit of gaming.

Any help/advice would be much appreciated.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Thursday, 14 September 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

Get a Macbook. It'll do everything better than the Dell apart from gaming, and you can install Windows on it for that.

― stet (stet), Thursday, 14 September 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

stet, hasn't there been problems with windows on a mac?

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Thursday, 14 September 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

currently torn between these two from dabs:

Toshiba Satellite Pro A100 - Save £20.00
* Intel Core Duo T2050 processor
* 512MB memory/60GB hard drive
* Wireless ready
* Weighs just 2.7kg
* DVD±RW (+R dual layer)
* Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition
Was £499.98 inc vat, now only £479.98 inc vat

Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pro V2085 - Save over £20.00
* Intel Pentium M 740 processor
* 512MB memory/60GB hard drive
* Integrated 802.11b/g wireless
* DVD+/-RW
* 15.4" TFT Display
* Microsoft Windows XP Professional - Vista capable
Was £469.99 inc vat, now only £446.48 inc vat

― reverto levidensis (blueski), Saturday, 6 January 2007 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

only issue is that i'll probably want to do audio and video editing on it from time to time but i'm assuming that models under £500 could cope with that well enough.

― reverto levidensis (blueski), Saturday, 6 January 2007 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

Not without more RAM, check the maximum you can expand it to. The toshiba has the performance edge but the fujitsu-siemes is better specced (not having wireless on a laptop is just dumb)

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 6 January 2007 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

Samsung R40 LWM Core 2 Duo T5500 1GB 120GB DL 15.4" TFT maybe an option at £615.98 inc.

― reverto levidensis (blueski), Saturday, 6 January 2007 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

If you want to run music apps, from what I have read, I would avoid Windows Media Center OS. The TV and audio features of that OS cause all sorts of problems with music apps.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Sunday, 7 January 2007 06:20 (nineteen years ago)

That samsung is pretty solid, I've got one (older model) for work and I have no complaints

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 7 January 2007 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

bought this last night, patience having run out

hope i will not regret

looks like i would be able to get express Vista Business upgrade with it

― reverto levidensis (blueski), Monday, 8 January 2007 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

I finally plumped for this having decided I valued weight more than anything else (and it being £600 cheaper than the Sony TX series). Should be ready next week.

Any ideas for cases? I'm minded to ditch my briefcase as part of the process so would prefer something business-like, but can't find anything with two combination locks.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 8 January 2007 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

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