Piece of shit laptop, need opinions, extremely urgent.

[wayoftheworld]

So you're saying that if i'm between broke and sort-of-broke-but-not-really, i'm better off being completely broke cause then i'll actually be rich?
And then they wonder why the economy crashed... I'm on your side though, fuck the system

nah man the system's great! without it i'd actually have to PAY for college! and what would i do without my food stamps every month? actually have to buy it with my own money? fuck that

[corpu5]

im sort of looking to upgrade my laptop too, im currrently using a vista laptop with 2gb of ram, if i were to get windows 7 (i get it for free for being a part of the computer science academy at uni...yay @ me for being a neek) and another 2gb of ram, would ableton be able to handle more instances of vst's and effects chains without audio dropout and whatnot?

[wayoftheworld]

im sort of looking to upgrade my laptop too, im currrently using a vista laptop with 2gb of ram, if i were to get windows 7 (i get it for free for being a part of the computer science academy at uni...yay @ me for being a neek) and another 2gb of ram, would ableton be able to handle more instances of vst's and effects chains without audio dropout and whatnot?

4gb of ram, i dont see why it wouldn't be able to handle it.

[corpu5]

im sort of looking to upgrade my laptop too, im currrently using a vista laptop with 2gb of ram, if i were to get windows 7 (i get it for free for being a part of the computer science academy at uni...yay @ me for being a neek) and another 2gb of ram, would ableton be able to handle more instances of vst's and effects chains without audio dropout and whatnot?

4gb of ram, i dont see why it wouldn't be able to handle it.

well cos i've only got a core 2duo 2.1ghz processor, which seems kinda slow dontcha think? Would more ram cover up for lack of cpu speed?

[aesthetics]

im sort of looking to upgrade my laptop too, im currrently using a vista laptop with 2gb of ram, if i were to get windows 7 (i get it for free for being a part of the computer science academy at uni...yay @ me for being a neek) and another 2gb of ram, would ableton be able to handle more instances of vst's and effects chains without audio dropout and whatnot?

4gb of ram, i dont see why it wouldn't be able to handle it.

well cos i've only got a core 2duo 2.1ghz processor, which seems kinda slow dontcha think? Would more ram cover up for lack of cpu speed?

Vista is known for it's CPU raping super powers, i'm a (very) happy windows 7 user, and i'd have to say yes, with a good sound card, the switch to windows 7 and an added 2GB of RAM you'll definitely be seeing some nice results...

[rbnc]

im sort of looking to upgrade my laptop too, im currrently using a vista laptop with 2gb of ram, if i were to get windows 7 (i get it for free for being a part of the computer science academy at uni...yay @ me for being a neek) and another 2gb of ram, would ableton be able to handle more instances of vst's and effects chains without audio dropout and whatnot?

4gb of ram, i dont see why it wouldn't be able to handle it.

well cos i've only got a core 2duo 2.1ghz processor, which seems kinda slow dontcha think? Would more ram cover up for lack of cpu speed?

A 2.1Ghz core2duo is actually not too bad. It's not all about GHz ya know.

[kinggraham]

To be honest with you, I used to read questions like this and hate all the people replying with "get a macbook", then i finally saved up and bought a macbook pro and realise now that they were right. Ableton used to crash on me so often that I was too scared to play out live, but have never had the slightest problem with the mac. Confidence in your setup = more gigs = more money, and soon enough your Macbook will have paid for itself.

[bugsky]

To be honest with you, I used to read questions like this and hate all the people replying with "get a macbook", then i finally saved up and bought a macbook pro and realise now that they were right. Ableton used to crash on me so often that I was too scared to play out live, but have never had the slightest problem with the mac. Confidence in your setup = more gigs = more money, and soon enough your Macbook will have paid for itself.

This alone has tempted me to get a macbook. I too am looking for an upgrade on my current piece of turd of a laptop.
I;ve started using Ableton Live and have bounced all my loops and beats from my productions to wav and imported into projects, ready to galvanize with a soon to be purchased Akai Apc40!
I;ve been looking around at different windows based laptops, but there is always something that nags me about each one. My brother has a Macbook and just the sound of typing on the keyboard makes me wet. The fact that you say "soon enough [the] Macbook will have paid for itself", has eradicated the whole price issue.

hmmm, to think that a few months ago I hated anything that Apple made and feared Ableton users. I suppose sometimes there is a right time to jump on board the band wagon.

[Mad_EP]

I've read & re-read those computer specs.. and I am trying to figure out what the problem is.

I've been playing live for 5 years... for the first 2 years, I used a G3 iBook - 800mHz with 512MB ram. Never had a single problem, not a single crash, not a single hiccup. Now I am using a Macbook with pretty similar specs to what you have listed - again, not only do I have no problems at all for playing live, but it also is my production computer... and I can use as many VSTs and softsynths as I want without any issues.

[BananaBomber]

Get A Macboook!

[DZA]

Get A Macboook!

Coming from someone who doesnt have a mac