Wot is yor DAW?

[James Coplin]

With laptops another thing to keep in mind is that Intel's marketing really
obscures what you are getting. An i7 or i5 in a laptop really is nothing
like a desktop i5 or i7. I have an old first gen i7 in my PC DAW and it
still kills much newer i7 laptops.

James R. Coplin

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Peter Korsten <peter at severity-one.com>
wrote:
>
> 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
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