I recently purchased an LAPTOP at Walmart's Black Friday sale. This machine was going for a heck of a deal ($298.00) and I just couldn't let this deal pass me by. The Laptop's MODEL # is G60-519WM and can be viewed at http://www.walmart.c...0#ProductDetail

It came with a 160 gig hard drive and my research shows that it can be maxed out to a 500 gig hard drive. I do music and I also have a small home recording studio where I do demos and small projects. As a matter of fact, I have already installed the following software on this laptop:

Band in a box Mega pak 2008.
Finale 2007.
Audacity.
Cakewalk Sonar home studio

I know ideally that a laptop with a DUAL CORE processor is a better bet for Music Production but I guess in due time, when I can afford it, I will purchase something with better specs. However, right at this point in time, this HP laptop that I now have is a single core as you would see when the specs are examined. I am also about to max out my ram by installing an additional 1 gig of ram maxing it out to 4 gigs. It came with 3 gigs of ram by the way.

My question is this. I want to max out my hard drive by purchasing and installing a 500 gig hard drive. Would y'all advised me to get an RPM 7200 hard drive or RPM 5400 and if so, where do I purchase a good 500 gig hard drive at a good price for this particular laptop? Would an RPM 7200 work well on this laptop and would the optimal hard drive space and optimal ram installed on this laptop compensate (for the time being) for the fact that this laptop runs a single core processor?


I would really appreciate your feed back. I do await replies. Thanks very much.

Jacobins