Toshiba Satellite i7 for DAW, any experience?

[Masaaki]

As long as you use UFX via USB, I think you are good to go. And it's nice, you already tested DPC latency before committing to buy. The question is more erlated to accessories and expandability. I've owned Sony, IBM, Toshiba, and Mac laptops in the past, and IBM/Toshiba has been my favorite for the build quality and ruggedness. It's a little different, as the build quality is not as good as 15 years ago. But, I got Thinkpad W520 with main SSD and secondary HD, and external HD (USB3.0) or eSATA dock. The interface is UFX. It's a beast.

[SabreChris]

Originally Posted by Masaaki

As long as you use UFX via USB, I think you are good to go. And it's nice, you already tested DPC latency before committing to buy. The question is more erlated to accessories and expandability. I've owned Sony, IBM, Toshiba, and Mac laptops in the past, and IBM/Toshiba has been my favorite for the build quality and ruggedness. It's a little different, as the build quality is not as good as 15 years ago. But, I got Thinkpad W520 with main SSD and secondary HD, and external HD (USB3.0) or eSATA dock. The interface is UFX. It's a beast.

Thanks, I'll check out the THinkpads. Really good to hear you are getting good performance with UFX over usb. My UFX arrives tomorrow.

I need a new notebook for my work, but I realized that whatever I buy will be perhaps more powerful than my current DAW, so I might as well dual boot and keep a DAW partition.

[SabreChris]

Ordered from Amazon. 3.99 Overnight shipping with Amazon Prime, should be here tomorrow, and they have a liberal 30-day return policy.

Its crazy what you get for $800 these days. Intel Core_i7_3610QM outperforms the custom built PhenomIIx4 I built 2 years ago, by about 100%. Assuming its usb works well with the UFX.