Originally Posted By: Mark79100
I've decided to buy a laptop as my desktop is running XP Pro and it's getting increasingly harder to meet "system requirements" for software.

Can any of you members tell me if a musician has "special needs" regards specs.

One of my concerns is the sound card. I bought a special card for my desktop, but I understand it's integrated into the motherboard on a laptop and it's not top quality. Will that affect how I hear my mp3's?

Also I want to install a top of the line music editing program. I looked at the screens at my local store and can clearly see the difference between a 1080 and a 1900. I want to see my "notes" as clear as possible if I'm doing editing.

Basically, can you think of anything I should know as a musician before I make my choice?

Thanks

Mark


First you need to know what you are going to do with it.. what DAw, using VST, will you do audio edditing or just midi.. what other programs will you run .. then you can

As for audio interface, i would go for a high quallity external USB interface, if you ever change laptops again, you can take that with you.... Choose an audio interface with a multiclient ASIO driver, whichj allows you to get audio from several sources at the same time if you for example would like to run Band in a box, varranger and a DAW at the same time.. tere is so many options possible, all depending on how you are going to use the laptop and the audio device..
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