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Originally Posted by smccarthy945  The biggest advantage of the Lenovo's is they ground their boards out like Apple does so you don't get the "power buzz" out of it when its on AC power. |
How is this relevant? Shouldn't 100% of people be using USB or FireWire interfaces? The built-in audio's not going to be pro quality in
any laptop, even a Mac.
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Originally Posted by rednas - A powerful CPU: i5 is the minimum, i7 is preferable |
Dual or quad core? From what I've heard, only software like image processing, video processing and 3D stuff are optimized for quad cores. For audio it's supposed to be better to get the fastest dual core you can get instead of a lower clock speed quad.
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SSD hard drives are nice, but still freaking expensive.
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Most laptops come with card reader slots now. Does it make sense to buy a big Class 6 SD flash card and jam it in there as an intermediate storage (DAW's temp drive, or with Win7's "ReadyBoost") to avoid hard drive bottlenecks?
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- We don't care about a good graphic card, but some might need a HDMI output
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Supposedly the Intel chips with integrated graphics suck up the main CPU and memory for the graphics when needed. Does this make external graphics a benefit? Is this a myth or overstated?