DAW Laptop

Should do fine. You should get yourself an external hard drive. You should be able to do 16 tracks simultaneously at the least without issue.

For the actual recording. You don't want to record to your system drive. It's busy running your OS.

I would make sure my computer were 64bit OS Professional or Ultimate, even amount of ram (4gb DDR3), and I would go with i7 for the processor. 7200rpm on the hard drive is good but you will still want an external eSATA (preferred) or usb or firewire drive for an audio destination drive. I also use Audition3.01 with all updates and am more and more using Reaper for live tracking and then doing my session and wav editing within Audition.

Oops. I'm late to the party.

Eric,

Question: what is the laptop's brand and model?

Question: what audio interface are you using?

Question: did you have any problems configuring the hardware and software?

Fozz, post: 370292 wrote:
Question: what audio interface are you using?

More generally, is it a firewire interface? If so you need to make sure the laptop you choose uses the Texas Instruments firewire chipset, as other types often cause problems.

IIRs, post: 370345 wrote: More generally, is it a firewire interface? If so you need to make sure the laptop you choose uses the Texas Instruments firewire chipset, as other types often cause problems.

Currently there are no laptops in production (Mac or PC)that utilize the TI chipset. pretty much hit and miss with PC laptops.
Best bet is to go USB2.

Here is a thread from gearslutz, jschild is the owner of ADK computers (specialized computers for audio/video)check out what he has to say.
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[quote=gdoubleyou, post: 370387]Currently there are no laptops in production (Mac or PC)that utilize the TI chipset. pretty much hit and miss with PC laptops.
Best bet is to go USB2.

Here is a thread from gearslutz, jschild is the owner of ADK computers (specialized computers for audio/video)check out what he has to say.
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I ran ADK out of here two years ago (bla bla bla ). Please please... gearslutz is so full of shills and misinformation its effecting the industries credibility like a virus over and over.

PCAudioLabs Mobile 17 MC has a built-in TI Firewire chipset. It's one beast of a laptop as it uses a desktop style Intel Core i7 processor.
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[quote=gdoubleyou, post: 370387]Currently there are no laptops in production (Mac or PC)that utilize the TI chipset. pretty much hit and miss with PC laptops.
Best bet is to go USB2.

Here is a thread from gearslutz, jschild is the owner of ADK computers (specialized computers for audio/video)check out what he has to say.
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Well, there's something to be learned from that thread.

1. You should know that if you leave the door open to just any stranger, eventually a rat will find it's way in.
2. Most laptops do not include Firewire Ports anymore. Apple don't because thunderbolt is their new thing. Built in obsolescence and all that.
3. You can't argue with a sphincter. All they do is blow stinky hot air.
   Anyway it made for interesting.....err...... entertaining reading.

   Nice to know there is at least one Laptop company that is still taking the audio community in consideration.