[RWP] are these laptops good enough for heavy audio work?

[colin McDonald]

the only issue you might run into on a laptop, is processor capability.
Mobile processors, even with similar documented specs as a desktop, just don't typically have the same balls as a desktop CPU.
You begin to notice when you start stacking or using multiple effects in real time for multiple tracks.
I've been mixing 4 track projects lately, and even on the dell desktop running a 2.8GHZ processer and 1GHZ of ram under xp, after 3 VST effects on each track, and one on the master, things begin to get a bit bogged down.
On the acer netbook, running xp, a 1.6GHZ processor and 1GHZ of ram, I can max out at two per track before it slows, and at 3 vst fx on each track, it'll often just freeze...i've lost a couple projects that way.
I don't think it's as much about the sound card as it is about the processor and particular design of the other components in the laptop.
I think most serious users of audio for in and out and mixing and editing will use an external I/O box at the minimum when using a lap top.  This frees up some of the processor to work with reaper.

regards
Colin
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Roy Shtupler 
  To: midimag at midimag.org ; realmusicians at freelists.org ; Reapers Without Peepers ; General discussion of the JSonar project 
  Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 2:32 PM
  Subject: [RWP] are these laptops good enough for heavy audio work?


  hi all
  any experience using laptops by LG , hp , and Toshiba (pros , cons, etc) when it comes to demanding audio/virtual instruments use?
  thanks a bunch for any input on this.
  Roy.
  www.soundclick.com/tzackeek


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