Geeks opinions required

fatphilb

fatphilb

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OK.

I was convinced I was gonna get a laptop.
Specs Hard Disk 60GBHard Disk 60GB, 512MB DDR RAM, 4x USB 2.0, Intel® Pentium® M 1.8GHz, Integrated graphics card with minimum of 32MB of video RAM

Its on the BT Home Computing Tax break deal (dunno how many of you are familiar with this. I basically qualify for £1500 worth of stuff tax free, which i pay for over 3 years with salary reduction.

I wanted a laptop as I though i could take it about with me and use it to DJ with. Now Im realising the likeliehood of this actually happening anytime soon are pretty remote, and id like to concentrate on production more. So....



WOULD YOU

a) buy high power desktop for about £800 200gb hd, 1mb ram 3.4 ghz etc etc. & 19" TFT
b) buy laptop and go with my original plan (also about 800)
c) buy a midrange desktop for about 600 512MB Ram, 160GB, 3 ghz crucial differences, ram upgradeable of course but only 17" TFT AND then chuck in a DLP Projector which takes me up to about £1500

What would you do????? I've always wanted a projector to go with my surround sound system!??!?

http://www.bthomecomputing.com/dundee
 
mid range desktop will give you the same power as the £800 laptop won't it, so if you don't mind lugging a desktop to gigs I'd get the desktop?


OR buy an imac, it's thin enough to lug to gigs easily, great for music apps, £900 or there abouts, stunningly beautiful, and then wait til after xmas and get a hidef screen in the sales, they'll have dropped to like £450 by then
 
Not sure a laptop is the best thing to be carrying around Dundee. Can just see you on the number 21 to Charleston, laptop out, doing some important filing.

Get the best PC you can and then invest in cubase!! (Your production will start straight away!)

Phil? Where do you DJ in Dundee? Did you ever go to Do this Do that at the union? :?:
 
A desktop pc will be a better workhorse for you, you'll get more power for your money and easier/cheaper to upgrade components...

haven't seen many pc flightcases though!
 
Mark is right. If you're going to do music production, get a high-powered desktop with a lot of hard drive space.

I've got a high-powered laptop which I've used for video editing, etc. but I recently got a desktop for the first time since '96. It is so much easier to use for labor-intensive tasks, plus you can add in extra hard drives for mroe storage (whereas, with my laptop, I was always moving or backing up files to external hard drives in order to have enough space to work with).

The laptop is now for reading the web, travel, email while the desktop is my media center.
 
im not a dj.

im currently playing with ableton, the plan was to use a laptop to play out IF i ever got good enough. but would be handy to take to friends when we are going out etc, to do a couple of hours mixing.

Cheers for the tips. I do actually know a fair bit about computers, in that im a qualified IT technician so i know the pro's and cons of the various ideas.

im more just wanting you all to tell me to splurge on the mid range and get the DLP as well. I dont fancy Apple, I just don't like em. (dont get me off on that one again :lol:)

For music production, With there being a significant difference in RAM, im tempted by the higher spec, but that means i cant get the DLP projector. I can also upgrade 512MB of ram very easily. So the other differences are 40GB of HD space and .3 ghz of processing power, as well as 2 inches of monitor space! I know what your saying Mark, more is better, but i still think i can run Ableton and Reason on the mid-spec, considering i can run them fine on current dinosaur. Im also not connecting whatever i get to t'internet! Tis gonna be pure Music making machine.

Jeembo, never made DTDT. Its still going in Edinburgh as far as Im aware. Dundee is a bit dry at the moment.
 
fatphilb said:
For music production, With there being a significant difference in RAM, im tempted by the higher spec, but that means i cant get the DLP projector. I can also upgrade 512MB of ram very easily. So the other differences are 40GB of HD space and .3 ghz of processing power, as well as 2 inches of monitor space! I know what your saying Mark, more is better, but i still think i can run Ableton and Reason on the mid-spec, considering i can run them fine on current dinosaur. Im also not connecting whatever i get to t'internet! Tis gonna be pure Music making machine.
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Fair enough :) Get cubase though ;)
 
Okay then...

whaddayathink of this then?

http://www.grandmas.com/ItemCME UF5.html
CME-UF5.jpg
 
find yrself a geek mate, and ask him to build you a PC from scratch.

i can put you in touch with someone i know who does that.

can get a high spec PC for whatever budget u have.
 
I think they are very nice people, and their cuisine is lovely, especially houmus, tarasmalata & haloumi :D
 
jjinit said:
I think they are very nice people, and their cuisine is lovely, especially houmus, tarasmalata & haloumi :D
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I like me some tsatsiki and souvlaki too :D

Glad I'm not the only one who keeps seeing "Greek" when he glances the title of this thread :lol:
 
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