Ebenjamino :
can handle?- Music production, at least 16 tracks at all times!
HD Streaming capabilities (for my off time)
Amazing display
Mass storage ( max)
Durable ( at least one hard drop per Gigahertz lol)
Non plastic, (or at least built well)
Amazing sound.
as many i/o as possible....(i love options)
to show you im oldschool, an optical drive....
Brands im leaning toward- Dell, Asus/Msi, Apple....and Lenovo
I really look forward to your reply!
p.s. I repair laptops for spare change, so please dont dumb down anything youd like to say! =]
Ebenjamino,
The Dell Precision 7710 should be a good basis for the system as these have a 17.3" Dell Ultrasharp screen- the largest laptop screen- and can accommodate quite good options, especially an M.2 boot drive.
New Precision 17 7000 Series (7710)
http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=04&l=en&model_id=precision-m7710-workstation&oc=xctomp771017us&s=bsd&fb=1&vw=classic
The CPU can be an i7-Skylake or Xeon E3 and ECC or non ECC RAM and up to 64GB of RAM. However, I think 32GB would be plenty, and that should support video editing as well. The largest storage drive is 2TB and so I would suggest buying a couple of large capacity external USB drives. Depending on the needs for visualization, there are a variety of Firpero and Quadro mobile workstation cards. A quite good specification will cost about $3,000. These are not the lightest laptops, but are durable and built for reliability.
If you have an array of inputs including microphone preamp, DAT, MIDI, ethernet, etc., with a laptop the best solution will be an external USB interface. As a general purpose, high capability interface, perhaps:
MOTU UltraLite AVB USB/AVB Interface > $649
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/UltraLiteAVB
This has a very good array of I/O including ethernet and MIDI. There are other good mobile interfaces from Presonus and Focusrite. Have a look through the offerings at Sweetwater.
> and monitor for editing with headphones with output to a studio monitoring system for mixing /panning.
To be any more specific, the list of inputs and software would be necessary.
You might consider adding a pair of monitors that can be connected when editing. Dual monitors seem to be to essential even if they are not very large- I use a pair of elderly 19"- to be able to see everything that's going on and have the waveforms large enough to see for editing.
If you don't need the portability of a laptop, of course a desktop workstation will be more versatile. Sonar is multi-threaded and you could run an 8-core Xeon.
Cheers,
BambiBoom
1. HP z420 (2015) > Xeon E5-1660 v2 (6-core @ 3.7 / 4.0GHz) > 32GB DDR3 1866 ECC RAM > Quadro K4200 (4GB) > Intel 730 480GB (9SSDSC2BP480G4R5) > Western Digital Black WD1003FZEX 1TB> M-Audio 192 sound card > 600W PSU> > Windows 7 Professional 64-bit > Logitech z2300 speakers > 2X Dell Ultrasharp U2715H (2560 X 1440)>
[ Passmark Rating = 5064 > CPU= 13989 / 2D= 819 / 3D= 4596 / Mem= 2772 / Disk= 4555] [Cinebench R15 > CPU = 1014 OpenGL= 126.59 FPS] 7.8.15
2. Dell Precision T5500 (2011) (Revised) > 2X Xeon X5680 (6 -core @ 3.33 / 3.6GHz), 48GB DDR3 1333 ECC Reg. > Quadro K2200 (4GB ) > PERC H310 / Samsung 840 250GB / WD RE4 Enterprise 1TB > M-Audio 192 sound card > Logitech z313> 875W PSU > Windows 7 Professional 64> HP 2711x (27", 1920 X 1080)
[ Passmark system rating = 3844 / CPU = 15047 / 2D= 662 / 3D= 3500 / Mem= 1785 / Disk= 2649] (12.30.15)
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