Laptop Hardware question

[Scott]

Hi Dex,

I currently use a Toshiba p25-s520 (3 GHz HT p4) and it works great. No locking up, no weird driver issues (not counting the initial SP2 fiasco.)

Just from the specs listed I would go with the Toshiba because of the 5400rpm drive. If you decide to place your conformed audio files on the C drive it will be a noticeable jump in performance when editing.

Scott

[Ken Adolph]

Neither one will work very well because of the 512 memory. You need minimum 1gig or go to 2gb. Of the two the HP is the best because it is a true P4 and not an “M”
The speed of the drives is not a factor because you shouldn’t be capturing, storing or playing back from the system drive at all.
I just bought an HP NX9600 with 100gb drive, 17″ monitor, 2gb memory and a 3.6 P4 processor. It has no problems with anything including 3DS Max, Combustion and Premiere.

Ken Adolph
Media Group
Editor/Post Supervisor
https://www.mg.ca

[Larry Sherwood]

I am using an HP zx5000, 1GB RAM, with a Lacie 250GB FW/USB drive and have no problems editing with PPro.

LS

[Blast]

I dont have experience with the Pent. M. I have read here that they erform great with a good battery life. My Pent 4 is 2 years old now and I love it from a performance perspective. Up your ram if you can. I have a gig and wish I had more. My specs should follow the signature.

Harry

ProStar 5614 Laptop
P4 Northwood 3.2 800FSB.
1 gig 3200 DDR SDRAM
2 7200 rpm,60 gig HDD
1 250 Diamond Max HDD
Teac -R-RW burner
Sony DRU-510A -R/ R burner
ATI 9600 MPRO 128 meg.
17″ AUX. monitor
13″ NTSC monitor
DV break-out
Bella keyboard

[Dex Craig]

Thanks, everyone, for the input. I finally wound up deciding to get a Dell Inspiron with a helluvalotta horsepower. It’s more money than I wanted to spend, but I figure, I’ll be using this thing for a long time, so better to spend the money now and be happy than scrimp and be complaining.

The new computer should arrive next week.

Happy editing everyone!

– Dex