Hey guys, just wanted to share an awesome setup I just stumbled onto.
First I bought an HP ProBook 4320s, with the i5 450m proc, and 4 gigs of ram, and a 500 gb hdd.
It has 4 usb, HDMI, eSATA, no firewire...
I picked it up for $500 new in box from an ebay store, and if I knew then what I know now I would have gotten the least expensive build with the Celeron, and small hard drive.
For $130 I bought the fastest processor you can get this model with (Core i7 620M). The laptop is a breeze to disassemble, and I replaced the processor. Then I bought two 4gb ddr3 sodimm's for $80 on ebay. And the new Samsung SSD with TRIM support, 120gb for $150.
So now I have a Core i7, 8GB DDR 3, 120GB high performance SSD all for $860, and I could have gotten the $420 flavor of the laptop and done it for $780.
If you can find a laptop out there with those specs for $800 please, let me in.
And the reason I invested in all these upgrades, is it is the most stable PC laptop I have ever owned with Traktor. And I have gone though A LOT. I bought this one as an upgrade to my ProBook 5310m (it was also remarkably stable with Traktor) just for the new i-processor.
What I mean by stable...
41000hz at 1.5ms latency (not a measure of actually total system latency, just the setting in the audio 8 dj control panel)
96000hz at 2ms latency!
(don't even use it here, but I did a couple gigs and pretty close to 20 hours of testing to finally decide I really couldn't tell the difference with my mp3's)
This is all with the 2.0.15 Audio 8 Driver, not the newest one that breaks stuff.
I also use a Kontrol X1, and am about to add two DN-SC2000's, and the USB's hubs have been up to snuff.
Not to be a flame war started....
But an equivalent MacBook Pro, with that i7, 8GB of ram, and a 120GB SSD is like $2600!
Thats over 3 times the price!!!!
You cant honestly sit here and tell me thats you get 300% more performance for that dollar.
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