I envisage the purchase of a pc, I would like to know ideale configuration to work with vvvv, knowing that I use in the same time one or two application: max, ableton, glitch sequenceur for window, etc…
I go to see to alienware and lenovo but i didn’t know the resources which uses vvvv I don’t know that graphic card is the best adapting, ram? as for the processor I intend to put an intel i7.
(Sorry my english it’s not perfect)
many thanks for your answers
tof
here is a discussion from the old forum. hw specs have not changed dramatically since then, so most suggestions mentioned in that should still be valid…
(ofcourse you’d buy a nvidia 580 nowadays instead of the mentioned 295 gtx and probably no i920 anymore, but other than that everything is pretty much the same i’d say…)
hi tof.
for myself i was hesitating between Alienware and Clevo.
Finally for budget i run on an asus G53JW-SX053V. I7 and 1.5G on Nvidia 460. I m very happy of it and i m using it with 2 others apps at the same time and vvvv.
i would say that the offer in “Republic Of Gamers” game are great
re-reading the thread i think it could also make sense if you’d specify what kind of system you want to buy… ;) (laptop/workstation)
the brand new dell XPS 15 is worth a look. it has a nvidia 435m GT with 2GB. its about 1000 euro, and somewhere it was written that you can have it with a full hd led screen…
experienced THREE broken ASUS mainboards, and @digitalslaves had a broken Laptop-mainboard, if i remember correctly.
for me no more asus.
Now that i have no laptop (I was robbed(!) ) Im waiting for a DELL XPS 14, because i don’t like to carry bigger laptops.
I’ve choosen the 430 and I5 instead of the 435 and I7. but because my last one had intel X3100, its going to make a real difference…
The bad thing about new laptops is that they mostly don’t have firewire. So goodbye to my Saffire Le audio interface
@kalle:
i think we may speak about cycle. I was very Toshiba before, and actually Toshiba’s offer is very bad and less quality in its construction. i do no more trust in the quality actually of toshiba.
Asus has made a real jump of quality. I have two towers on asus mainboard, working without troubles since 3 years, I m buying for the dance companies i m working for only asus, since 2 years, as the offer in terms of power is really better than everybody. especiallly ROG machines.
i don t know where to find better than this asus: NVIDIA 460 1,5Go, i7, in 15.6 inches at 1200 euros…
so actually i would say at this price, definitively asus…
@manuel:
you can use usb adaptor to firewire if the device doesnt need to be feeded in power. dont forget also expresscard adaptors if you have a slot for it.
The thing is the xps 14 doesn’t have expresscard…
but wait, there are usb-firewire adapters ??? please show me where!
ohh, but i don’t know if this work for an audio interface… did you have any experience with it ?
heres my answer
http://www.focusrite.com/answerbase/en/article.php?id=1092
“No, it is not possible to connect a FireWire interface to your computer’s USB port via a FireWire to USB adapter since this connection is not sufficient to run a FireWire audio interface.”
but perhaps with this thing that @mrboni mentioned?
had firewire chipset problems with my motu ultralite so worth checking on constructor’s site if it recommends one in particular…
oh… i was thinking about dv cam, not audio interface… thats sounds really bad