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offline gingaling from Scamworth (Burkina Faso) on 2008-06-05 09:34 [#02213319]
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where i can get a reasonable spec lappy at a reasonable
price, 250-300? is this a sensible price range?



 

offline 010101 from Vancouver (Canada) on 2008-06-05 10:56 [#02213336]
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over there

*points*


 

offline futureimage from buy FIR from Juno (United Kingdom) on 2008-06-05 13:07 [#02213357]
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Dell? Pissy World? Comet?


 

offline obara from Utrecht on 2008-06-05 13:13 [#02213359]
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ask here


 

offline hedphukkerr from mathbotton (United States) on 2008-06-05 13:26 [#02213370]
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is that 250-300 in usd, pound, what?

also, chances are, no. for that amount of cash youll be
getting the asus eee or that other netbook from laptop for
every child.

and im guessing those are a bit below your spec.


 

offline chaosmachine from Ottawa (Canada) on 2008-06-05 13:39 [#02213372]
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reasonable laptops start at $2000.

unless you don't want to play games or make music. then any
laptop from the last 10 years will do you about the same.


 

offline glasse from Harrisburg (United States) on 2008-06-05 15:33 [#02213397]
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You could get an old laptop in that range, probably like a
g3 ibook or something. You could also get away with
producing music on it. You may have to freeze, render,
bounce down tracks A LOT, but think about it, people were
making laptop music in 2001 and they managed to pull it
off.

Your biggest problem with that, however, will be support.
Most current DAW software is going to require a later OS and
later hardware than your pc supports. You might be able to
find a version of Cubase, Logic, Acid etc. that will run on
it but then you have to find drivers, plugins, etc. Trust
me, it will be a pain in the ass.

I have an ibook g3 that I got many years of use out of. As
time went on, however, any time it crashed or I had to
reinstall something it became more and more frustrating to
get support for it.


 

offline gingaling from Scamworth (Burkina Faso) on 2008-06-06 04:32 [#02213485]
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cheers, I'm not really gonna be gaming but would like to
maybe get some sort of production software going on, never
made music but would like to have bash. are the sorta
standard machines u get in currys etc for like £300 new
capable enough?


 

offline staz on 2008-06-06 08:36 [#02213517]
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they should be fine if you get a good external soundcard to
help you process the audio. it'll make a huge difference.


 

offline freqy on 2008-06-06 09:02 [#02213521]
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get a lunch box with flat screen ..bit bigger but can be far
quicker.
and cheaper...and with PCI.


 


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