HP Laptop is Rockin'
Just a little good news on the Laptop front. I have a HP pavillion ZD 7000 that is my main autocad/office/browser PC. A couple of months ago, I partitioned the HD (Against HP's tech support advice. I actually talked to a tech and they said they hadn't tested this and didn't recommend it.-Pooey! I did it anyway) and installed XP Pro, SP2 and ONLY Sonar 5.1, SF8, & CDA. I did the Music tweaks. I had to download and install a chipset upgrade and a PCM/Cia adapter upgrade (Both per HP). I installed 2G of Corsair RAM.
Now, mind you, I'm not a Computer guy, I mean I can get around on 'em, but I'm just a user. You start talking buss speed and SATA and chipsets and all that stuff and it's just overwhelming. So I've read a lot of posts and done a lot of searches and just kind of fumbled around to get where I'm at.
The point is, my system is rockin' for audio. I've been working on a song that has 20 audio tracks and 24 plugs (Sonitus, Waves, SSL) and my CPU is running at 17% and bumping up to mid 30's.
I'm not using soft synths.
My setup is this; HP Pavillion 3G P4 -w- 2 G Ram. PCM/CIA firewire adapter to RME Fireface-w- RME ADI-8DS via ADAT. External firewire HD via laptop firewire port.
I had some crashes earlier, but I narrowed it down to a Sony gate plug in that came with SoundForge. I'll never use it again, the Sonitus stuff is great. Oh, and the SSL plug in- I like the L2 better, but who doesn't?
Still learning Sonar 5...