There are plenty of us who have been using latops as DAWs for over three years now.

One has to research carefully, find out about the sound device you want to use and how it works or doesn't with the laptop you want to purchase. This can usually be found out by lurking targeted forums.

There are also certain brands to avoid entirely IMO. For example, I don't recommend Dell laptops for use as DAWs. But you will find that there is also a lot of trouble reported with the Dell desktops as well. This should red flag the potential buyer. Of course, there are indeed people using Dells for the purpose who report no troubles at all, too. But there certainly seems to be an inordinate number of folks reporting problems that can't be tweaked away easily as well. Caveat Emptor.

The times are changing, matter of fact I think they've already changed.

For example, many people have reported flawless operation of Band in a Box on those 9.something inch Acers and HP mini notebooks with the Atom processor...

Rather than tell people to flat not purchase a laptop, I tell them to take their time when shopping, don't impulse buy the laptop nor the sound device, instead go back home and search the web about that laptop model, that particular sound device, etc. as regards DAW work.


--Mac

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