Suggest a laptop

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samanosuke wrote:
I'd screw x86 altogether and go for a Powerbook personally.

Maybe he doesn't want to spend £2000 for a pretty looking calculator.

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samanosuke wrote:
Isn't every computer just a calculator when you think about it?

I know, I was just being facetious... When I was shopping around for a Laptop, I rather fancied a PowerBook G4... but After running the software (Logic Audio, Reason etc...) I needed to run on it and then the same software on an x86 laptop; the x86 gave me better performance for half the cost (with more memory and bigger hard drive, LCD wasn't as good though).

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samanosuke wrote:
Heh, that's exactly what I use my Mac for! Strangely I found the CPU usage under Reason more effecient (even moreso under OS9) when compared to my friend's similarly spec'd x86 laptop. Don't know about Cubase though so I can't comment there. I can imagine that the G4 'books are becoming outdated now thoug - Apple really need to switch to G5 in their laptops as the G4 is showing its age.

I don't run Cubase either :-D

I was compararing a top of the Line PowerBook G4 with a 3.06Ghz PIV Laptop... To be really honest I'm not surprised the PIV was faster (and cheaper).

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Noster wrote:
Hi,

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> To be really honest I'm not surprised the PIV was faster (and cheaper).

And louder, and with less akku runtime ;-)

Noster

Oh, yeah MUCH louder and MUCH hotter than a G4!!! But since it is used to run softsynths on stage for no more than an hour at a time that doesn't matter!!! :-D

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rayt wrote:

Yup, building PIV based notebooks is incredibly stupid imho.. theres a good reason why intel has the pentium m.. but intel sucks anyway..

I agree, but I needed something powerful and cheap, at that moment... and the AMD64 laptops were ages away.... so I had to go with the smelly intel one :-)