Looking to purchase a laptop

[gullick]

Hi, I'm hoping to get £2500 together (not likely) to buy the beastiest laptop possible which will handle music production and video editing.

I have looked on pcspecialist.com but wondered if anyone knew any alternatives which I might get better value for money with

[sedate_solution]

Hi, I'm hoping to get £2500 together (not likely) to buy the beastiest laptop possible which will handle music production and video editing.

I have looked on pcspecialist.com but wondered if anyone knew any alternatives which I might get better value for money with

If you have that much to burn, get Alienware (http://www.alienware.co.uk/main.aspx). :cool:

[alzee]

I got my last laptop from Dell; a Vostro, which was a great deal at the time.

My current Desktop I got from Scan.co.uk, and it's excellent - they offer a great product and service.

I'd suggest checking both out.

Good luck ^^

Edit: Alienware are good, but hideously expensive.

[logic bomb]

Blimey that's a lot of money for a laptop. Even if you want one for professional AV production you don't need to spend anywhere near that amount. Do you want a Mac or a PC? That's the question. If you you are mainly doing AV work then a Mac is probably better though you will have a bigger choice of software (everything is on torrents for free) with a windows based laptop. Dells XPS range is quite good.

[dallas18]

im not sure how much they are in your currency but you won't be disappointed with a macbook pro especially for av. you can installed windows on them too and use dual boot!

[forza nascosta]

im not sure how much they are in your currency but you won't be disappointed with a macbook pro especially for av. you can installed windows on them too and use dual boot!

I have a MacBook Pro and run XP as well using parallel. It's great, prefer it to a PC.

OP - £2500 on a laptop :eek:

[thenymph]

Hi, I'm hoping to get £2500 together (not likely) to buy the beastiest laptop possible which will handle music production and video editing.

I have looked on pcspecialist.com but wondered if anyone knew any alternatives which I might get better value for money with

Get the best Mac you can afford. Simple as that. You'll never regret it - it's what the pro's use !

[armoured_amazon]

Get the best Mac you can afford. Simple as that. You'll never regret it - it's what the pro's use !

Hear, hear!

[drhemp]

But why do you want a laptop if you want the fastest machine? If you build a tower you can get a much more powerful machine.

By the way, don't waste money on a Mac? I've just built a PC tower at around £3k which can run Mac OS, Linux and Windows (you don't have to spend anywhere near that much, but I went silly). I use an EFI-X internal USB dongle that plugs into the motherboard which tricks the PC into thinking it's a MAC allowing it to legally install MAC OS (this is not a hack). You are limited to the hardware it will work with, but what it does work with is more than fine. Using a Gigabyte GA-X48T-DQ6 Intel X48 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard, I put in an Intel quad core 3.00 Ghz processor, a very good graphics card (Asus GeForce 9800 GTX+ TOP "Dark Knight" 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/DVI), 8gb ram, SATA2 Solid State Drives, RAID controllers, blueray rewriter, etc.,.

This is much cheaper than what you would pay for a top end Mac - and more powerful, so in other words, for less money, you can have a PC running Mac OS that better than anything you can buy from Apple, with the added bonus it's also upgradable and you can also boot in Linux or Windows if required.

[rastamasta]

Hi mate,

go onto www.scan.co.uk and you can build your own pc.

http://3xs.scan.co.uk/

[fuzzylogic]

Bare in mind that laptops have pretty crappy soundcards, so if you are going to use one for music production then you'll want to save some of that £2500 to buy a decent usb/firewire external soundcard.

[markomac]

Once you go MAC you NEVER go back.

I use my MacBook Pro for video editing and with my band for recording and mixing.

Take it from me mate. I never recommend anything, but I will always recommend a MAC.

You wont be sorry. the technical support is 2nd to none as well.

MM

[cafetimes1991]

If you have that much to burn, get Alienware (http://www.alienware.co.uk/main.aspx). :cool:

My brother has an Alienware laptop, and seems to like it. He was wearing one of their shirts yesterday.
I had a Mac, but then dropped it about 50cm onto soft carpet and it broke, costing €399 to repair, so now I'm using this oldish Philips Windows xp computer. Certainly less convenient than my laptop, but at least I'm spending less time on the internet, I guess...

[rixxmixxhell]

http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/series/Qosmio-X300-series/1056665/

http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/product/Qosmio-X300-11W/1057359/toshibaShop/true/

Build you own mate with that amount of money, and send me the second you can build with that money ;)

[drhemp]

Once you go MAC you NEVER go back.

I use my MacBook Pro for video editing and with my band for recording and mixing.

Take it from me mate. I never recommend anything, but I will always recommend a MAC.

You wont be sorry. the technical support is 2nd to none as well.

MM

But why waste money on a MacBook Pro, when you can get a superior upgradable efix PC running Mac OS for a lot less money?

[penguin]

http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/gbweb/LenovoPortal/en_GB/catalog.workflow:category.details?current-catalog-id=FD6DB49790C7411D933567FC361231FB&current-category-id=81DDC1DC346D4A1A93AAA201B47E336C

the link is for an ibm laptop.
the reason I suggest this laptop is the graphics....

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M 128-core CUDA parallel computing processor 1GB (dedicated)
Elite ThinkPad W700 17.0" widescreen