Laptop

Flack wrote on 2/13/2004, 12:22 PM

I am thinking of buying a laptop for use with vegas what is the minimum spec that I should go for. I am not a speed freak but would a P4 Celeron do or should I go for a Athlon 2.4 / 2.6

MJ.

Comments

cosmo wrote on 2/13/2004, 12:35 PM

Seems like for most average sized projects a Celeron 2.x could do OK. Or the Athlon. If you've never owned a laptop I'd reccommend buying one from Dell. Next day on site service - that's what I'm talking about. If you can service laptops - build your own. If you're like me and don't have time for that, get something with a great service plan like a Dell.

If you plan on using it for audio apps too don't spend money on included sound packages cause you'll need to go better....

johnmeyer wrote on 2/13/2004, 12:38 PM

See this:

Laptops 1

Laptops 2

Machine horsepower

Capture on laptops

FuTz wrote on 2/13/2004, 2:34 PM

I got my first laptop last november: Sony Vaio frv35.
Very satisfied so far and a good "bang for the bucks"...

Cheno wrote on 2/13/2004, 2:57 PM

I know DSE prefers Sony as they've got really good international support.

Also, check out Earl's Laptops at www.pcnirvana.com

riredale wrote on 2/13/2004, 6:16 PM

Perhaps one of the earlier links already covers my response, but last year I bought a super-cheap Dell Inspiron ($599 with CD burner, 256MB, 20GB drive, 1.8GHz Celeron). It runs Vegas beautifully. I use it with an external 200GB drive in a firewire enclosure.

So I have to conclude that virtually ANYTHING you can buy today has ample performance. Naturally, if you pay more you will get somewhat faster renders, but not that much faster.

Flack wrote on 2/13/2004, 6:23 PM

Thanks for all the replys guys, I have a couple of options now, and I have just seen a bargain in a local comp shop....

Flack...

bigcreek wrote on 2/14/2004, 7:10 PM

I have a Thinkpad X31 Centrino w/built in firewire. Works great for small projects or building small clips to export. Capture works great.