Macbook Pro. The original Audio lappies are all Macs. PC is catching up, though, but one must do their homework if DAW is what they want to do with it. At that point, then, this is just yet another reason why true Recording Engineers still manage to get work.

There are also some PC based laptops that make worthy DAWs, most of them aren't readily available on consumer shelves in discount houses, though.

And there's nothing inherently wrong about that, after all, there are also those who know that if they really want a PC to perform as a DAW, they either build their own from specified "known good" parts for the purpose, or they pay someone else to do so. Whole companies have sprung up specializing in the building of DAWS, even DAW laptops.

manning, all this amounts to really is people having great expectations for discounted consumer stuff.

The same problem applies to desktop DAWs as well.

All those posts from all those folks who went out and bought a slashed price Dell desktop awhile back and then the trouble begins...

I've got a PC based laptop here that routinely records 16 tracks of audio in the field. It has replaced my onlocation rackmount PC for that purpose. With E-MU 1616M plus Behringer A-D for the other 8 inputs, along with a Firewire external drive plugged into the E-MU's FireWire port, the thing just works. And I didn't have to also put a UPS in the rack, the laptop's battery pack works just fine if the power drops. But I did my homework well before ordering and I spent more money than the average laptop consumer is likely to agree about. So mine works well and theirs doesn't.

--Mac

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