19" screen?!
That's huuuuge!
Yep, power is not an issue with notebooks now-a-days.
My old laptop was a Pentium 1 GHz with 128 MB RAM! S-L-O-W!
This new one will allow me to get all of my music off the family desktop PC and into my new portable one.
I should've saved for a bigger hard drive but I figure for $100 I can get a 250 GB, 7200 RPM firewire2/usb2 external hard drive.
80 GB is enough to keep my OS and my sequencer and core VSTs on. But it is a 7200 RPM drive so I can record onto it with no problems even if I don't have an external drive.
Ultimately I want to use this for my mobile DJ gigs and for my DAW. I must face it, I am only a hobbyist musician. I've never made a dollar selling a song, but I have made money playing music for at parties and restaurants. So, this is my new DJ machine AND my
"ultra-mini-teeny-tiny studio."
I also just bought this new DJ mixer:
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/produ...USB?sku=808455
It is a 19" rackmount model and allows 2 channels of input from USB cables, thereby eliminating a firewire soundcard as an interface to a DJ mixer.
In a few months I'll buy this:
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/produ...ler?sku=241533
It allows full control of my DJ software without use of a mouse. It basically makes the PC DJ experience very much like using dual CD players, but allows for the full range of additional software control and FX.
Then I just need to spring for a case and I can slap it all together and hit the road!
No beer for me today, Bro.
I have a MONSTER sinus headache. Awful!!!