[LAU] high-powered laptop suggestions ?

[Lee Revell]

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Dave Phillips <dlphillips at woh.rr.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'll be in the market for a better laptop later this year, and I need
> some specific features.
>
> I'd like to purchase a machine strong enough to handle my work with the
> AVSynthesis software. My desktop boxes include 2.0 and 2.4 GHz CPUs,
> with 3 and 2 GB memory, and they are not powerful enough for some of the
> combined OpenGL/Csound realtime processing. I'll need a machine with a
> very fast CPU (preferably 64-bit), large HD support, large RAM capacity,
> and accelerated 3D-capable graphics. The on-board sound will be replaced
> by an external device, preferably *not* a USB audio device. I want very
> high-quality audio, and eventually I'll need support for multichannel
> output. The display doesn't have to be humongous, just very clear.

Make sure you buy from a vendor with a good return policy, in case you
get one that can't do realtime due to SMM issues.  It's almost
impossible to rule this out ahead of time.

Lee