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Sound Crystal
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Posted : Apr 22, 2005 00:05
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Im looking to buy a laptop for music production mostly, as well as some graphic design stuff.
Alienware laptops look very cool...does anyone have experience with them? http://www.alienware.com
Also is Pentium M a must, or P4 will do as well?
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Colin OOOD
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Posted : Apr 22, 2005 00:20
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Sound Crystal
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Posted : Apr 22, 2005 08:37
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Does any of these seem reasonable for the price -
$3272
Laptop: Alienware Area-51m 7700
7-In-1 Media Card Reader
Weight ~ 12.5lbs with Battery
17" WideSXGA+ 1680 x 1050 LCD Display with Built-in Camera
Pentium® 4 Processor 560J w/ HT Technology 3.6GHz 1MB Cache
2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SO-DIMM at 533MHz
60GB 7200 RPM ATA100 - Hitachi
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$3218
Laptop: Dell Inspiron XPS Gen 2
Weight 9 lbs (3.9kg)
17 inch UltraSharp™ Wide Screen UXGA Display with TrueLife™
Intel® Pentium® M Processor 760 (2 GHz/2MB Cache/533MHz FSB)
2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz 2 Dimm
60GB Hard Drive 7200 PRM
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High Pulse
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Posted : Apr 22, 2005 12:55
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12.5lbs :SS:S
3.9 kilos ... pfff bether bring the tower noo *???
lol
just kiding , i think they are to much expensive ... alienware area 51 3272us dollarwss ?? lolol thats what i call STEALING , and ppl talk about apple market aahahah
option , for that money in us dollars i could buy 2 powerbook superdrive last model 
think about itt
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mubali
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Posted : Apr 22, 2005 22:01
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DON'T BUY A DELL!!!!
Sorry for shouting, but I have had horrible horrible experiences with the Dell laptop that I have. It's ok for doing a bit of stuff in Live, but for the music construction duties, it really falls short of my desktop that has half the processing capabilities and half of the RAM.
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Meta
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Posted : Apr 23, 2005 09:07
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fregle
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Posted : Apr 23, 2005 11:52
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mubali: this might sound incredibly stupid because u probably already checked this a long time ago, but just in case.... Check all power-saving settings of ur laptop, and also temperature control settings. Otherwise i don't see a reason why ur laptop should be less performant. unless there's some bottleneck, but what would be the bottleneck then? |
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Sound Crystal
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Posted : Apr 26, 2005 20:46
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How important is the RPM on the Hard Drive?
Im getting a Vaio and Dell for the same price, same specs...except the drive on the dell is 7200 RPM and on the Vaio is 5400 RPM.
I am guessing that 7200 RPM is very important for audio.
Its just that the Vaio looks way cooler 
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High Pulse
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Posted : Apr 27, 2005 06:40
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7200 rpm improve more stability and hangon on softwares , so if u have a bether spin rate on your hard disck the bether
so its a good choice , a good choice as well is to see the cache of the disck , 8mb is good , 16mb bether
so chek the specs first
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fregle
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Posted : Apr 27, 2005 16:02
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everything needs to be in sync with each other... There is no point in having a monster pc (4gHz, 2Gig's 400mHz ram, digidesign axel card) and only have a lowly ATA-100 5400 rpm hard disk...
U create bottlenecks like that... Sometimes it's better NOT to take the greatest processor to be able to buy a graphics card that can at least follow ur system (and graphics cards are important on any system, they enhance every aspect of ur images, not only in games... Example, when u scroll fast on a computer with a sucky graphics card, the scroll will be jerky. With a good graphics card it will be smooth).
So, what i mean to say is: make sure everything in ur system is about the same speed, so nothing slows down the general performance... If u concentrate on that, u will see that ur computer will be faster then higher-specced computers who have slow hd's, or a bad graphics card, or not enough ram, or... |
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fregle
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Posted : Apr 27, 2005 16:06
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also... Right now we have this '64-bit' craze... But i still didn't see a single machine that was entirely 64-bit... And if 1 part of the machinery is 32-bit instead of 64-bit, then the whole system runs in effect on 32-bit... These days this is a real problem, because people think they are buying a 64-bit computer, while it's all bullshit (there is even hardly any software running on 64 bit, it's all win32 baby). U can have ur 64-bit processor, if u have 32-bit ram or HD ur advantage goes right out the window, and 64-bit programmes can only work in 32-bit mode... So in effect ur machine is still a 32-bit machine... |
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Sound Crystal
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Posted : Apr 28, 2005 21:49
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What about HP Pavillion vs this DELL ?
Hp zd8000 $2,443
Intel Pentium 4 650 w/HT Technology, 3.4GHz
17.0" WSXGA(1680x1050)
2.0GB DDR2 SDRAM, 533MHz
60 GB 7200 RPM Hard Drive
DVD+/-RW/R CD-RW Combo w/Double Layer
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DELL Inspiron 9300 $2,227
Intel® Pentium® M Processor 760 (2 GHz/2MB Cache/533MHz FSB)
17 inch UltraSharp™ Wide Screen UXGA
1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz
60GB 7200rpm Hard Drive
24X CD Burner/DVD Combo Drive
The HP has 2 GB RAM vs 1 GB in the Dell. Also Hp has Dual layer DVD burner. But its P4 vs Pentium M.
appreciate all your help!!
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mubali
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Posted : Apr 29, 2005 01:17
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See my above post....
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Sound Crystal
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Posted : Apr 29, 2005 04:31
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On 2005-04-29 01:17, mubali wrote:
See my above post....
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Mubali would that be a feature of laptops in general (that they perform worse than desktops), or specifically with Dell?
Also what were your specs on the Dell? A P4 or pentium M ?
thanks a ton!
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