Wot is yor DAW?

[Peter Korsten]

Andrew Tarpinian schreef op 15-12-2014 20:32:

> Laptops have their place and for most people it's a small all in one solution (now tablets.) I bought my retina macbook a year ago because I couldn't wait any longer for the new Mac Pro (and I would have spent way too much on one :) I have to say it's insanely powerful for a laptop, and rivals desktop machines. Of course I want more ram and cores obviously, but for most video/after effects/3d work it's fine, and you can pick it up and take it with you. I could not believe the amount of power in such a small space. The 1tb flash drive helps :)

Powerful laptops are a bit like the latest and greatest game consoles. I 
remember that when the PS3 came out, the claims were that it blew PCs 
out of the water. Saddam Hussein tried to order a bunch to build a 
supercomputer.

Even my ageing gaming PC wipes the floor with a PS3. Perhaps not with a 
PS4/Xbox One (it's actually a bit faster than a PS4), but I could easily 
swap motherboard, CPU, RAM and graphics card, and leave the nice case, 
the optical drive, the SDD, the HDD and the sound card, and most 
importantly, the 1 kilowatt power supply. Yes, that's a whole kilowatt. 
Try that on a laptop.

And that's my main beef, really. Power and portability don't go well 
together. Which is why I'm giving it some thought how you could use 
portable computing in an effective way, without needing all that power, 
or at least not needing it in your hands.

But to each his own. I've simply hated laptops as long as I've been 
using them.

- Peter