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Andrew Bohan · 10-11-2008, 06:36 PM

my current laptop is a dell latitude with intel 2.13 gz and 2gb ram and i run it hard 24/7 with photoshop and illustrator going at the same time and like 15 firefox windows, and my sticker cutting program. it does start to get bogged down by the end of the day, but whatever. that's expected. all in all, it works great for what i'm doing.

with my 1.8ghz 1gb ram machine, video editing was doable, but rendering effects took daaaaaaays. i was using premier pro 1.5 on xp.

for music i was using cakewalk pro audio 9 with a sound blaster pci 512 and that worked pretty good most of the time. if i had much else running it would fuck up on playback of songs with a lot of tracks. i'm thinking to get an external sound processor or something too.

when i got my laptop, cakewalk wouldn't work on it. the midi was fine, but anything i recorded wouldn't come out right. i guess it was some kind of incompatibility.

i'm not really into macs. i might get one if all i was going to use it for was final cut pro, but i'm using it for way more, so no.

i'm not really into gaming, so any generic video card will work, BUT! i liked my GeForce Ti4200 and its dual monitor outputs. since they were on the same card, i could have one background span both monitors, instead of the same one-monitor-size background on both monitors (i have two 19" viewsonics).

chances are i could still use that card.

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10-11-2008, 06:36 PM	#7
Andrew Bohan Post Whore! Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Ohio Posts: 8,331 Trader Rating: (2) Feedback Score: 2 reviews	my current laptop is a dell latitude with intel 2.13 gz and 2gb ram and i run it hard 24/7 with photoshop and illustrator going at the same time and like 15 firefox windows, and my sticker cutting program. it does start to get bogged down by the end of the day, but whatever. that's expected. all in all, it works great for what i'm doing. with my 1.8ghz 1gb ram machine, video editing was doable, but rendering effects took daaaaaaays. i was using premier pro 1.5 on xp. for music i was using cakewalk pro audio 9 with a sound blaster pci 512 and that worked pretty good most of the time. if i had much else running it would fuck up on playback of songs with a lot of tracks. i'm thinking to get an external sound processor or something too. when i got my laptop, cakewalk wouldn't work on it. the midi was fine, but anything i recorded wouldn't come out right. i guess it was some kind of incompatibility. i'm not really into macs. i might get one if all i was going to use it for was final cut pro, but i'm using it for way more, so no. i'm not really into gaming, so any generic video card will work, BUT! i liked my GeForce Ti4200 and its dual monitor outputs. since they were on the same card, i could have one background span both monitors, instead of the same one-monitor-size background on both monitors (i have two 19" viewsonics). chances are i could still use that card.