Re: All-Laptop live??

["Tony K" <bigtony@softhome.net>]

>> Does this mean that having a company put together a system (in this 
>case, 
>> a
>> laptop) for your specific purpose and loading the software to make sure 
>> that
>> everything works correctly is worth an added expense?
>> This might also be a rhetorical question.
>
> Maybe.  But the most important strategy to buy a good audio windows pc 
>is 
> to network with people that use the software you are planning to use. 
>Find 
> out what combination of audio hardware and computer model (sound card, 
> cpu, drives) that is stable and buy a replica of that set-up.


I'd recommed the yahoo group PCDAW for anybody interested in building 
their 
own, or just in general DAW info.  The discussions are usually about using 
PCs for recording, but a lot of the same issues (latency, compatibility, 
stability, etc) pop up.  It's pretty much PC centric, but occasionally 
there 
are Mac questions.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCDAW/

Tony