Hello - not sure where to post this thread, suppose here’ll do.
i’m shopping for a PC laptop and finding the whole thing quite boggling.
I need it for gigging round the world doing visual performances to accompany a musician.
I’m not only using vvvv and reckon i’ll need something quite powerful CPU-wise and on the graphics card front.
I was hoping you clever chaps would be able to point me in the right direction?
My budget can stretch to about £1300
p.s - Please don’t tell me to get a mac (i’d love to) because of the sotware i have i’m getting a PC.
I’ve got an Amilo 1630, 3700+ AMD64, very fast but not very reliable, I would maybe bear reliability in mind!
I’ve sent it back for replacement m/b twice now!
Mines a Targa Traveller (Athlon 64 Mobile 3000+, XP Home, 512M, 80G) with a PCI Express X700. I got it from Lidl on a “special” multimedia day for £999 back in Jan/Feb. It’s been very reliable and Targa have been very good at answering my queries, so good in fact that I bought a Targa 19" LCD monitor a few week ago, again at Lidl for £199. You could get both with your budget as well!
PS: I think there was an upgraded Traveller a few months after I got mine
Well, since it is power you want, forget the small and portable labtops, better get one that is called: desktop replacement. Okay, they are ‘heavy’ (5+ kilo) and have short accu (30 minutes) but that is not what you are interested in.
You get a normall PSU (a pentium 4 for all I care) and a normal graphic card, not that ‘mobile’ crap.
for £1300 (€1930) you can get a very decent one, and be sure you get that xtra memory (1 gig at least, aim for 2 gig) and a normal 7200 rpm hard drive.
if it needs to be a laptop, i would go with dell. the xps is available with a gf7800go vga and 2.13gHz pentium m. i ran 65 quads with videotexture on without any stuttering.
but: my real suggestion is: if you find power supply where you are going to use it, buy a barebone. cheaper, more powerful and just a bit bigger :)
i drive my visuals on an xpc sn25p, amd 3700+ and gf 7800gt vivo. everything fine (now) and you will never ever get that performance on a notebook.
