Shopping for a new Laptop tomorrow.

[kimball492]

When you use Pro tools on laptop you'll still need two drives one for the operating system and samples you may use ,the other would need to be specifically for recording audio to.The ext drive will need to be a 7200rpm drive . Min of 8gb memory if you have any FireWire devices you'll need a Texas Instruments chipset FireWire Card . Windows 10 is coming soon . That will hopefully give audio on laptops a big boost. Have fun Dr Nomis.
The other option you have , is buying a secondhand 2012 i7 MacBook Pro . That way you can use as mac and run windows too, on same machine. Just choose which operating ststem on the boot up screen. That's what I do .

P.s some notebooks can take two drives internally if so again just make sure the audio or drive you record to is 7200 rpm or you might be lucky and get away with using An SSD drive for audio work.

[DrNomis_44]

When you use Pro tools on laptop you'll still need two drives one for the operating system and samples you may use ,the other would need to be specifically for recording audio to.The ext drive will need to be a 7200rpm drive . Min of 8gb memory if you have any FireWire devices you'll need a Texas Instruments chipset FireWire Card . Windows 10 is coming soon . That will hopefully give audio on laptops a big boost. Have fun Dr Nomis.
The other option you have , is buying a secondhand 2012 i7 MacBook Pro . That way you can use as mac and run windows too, on same machine. Just choose which operating ststem on the boot up screen. That's what I do .

P.s some notebooks can take two drives internally if so again just make sure the audio or drive you record to is 7200 rpm or you might be lucky and get away with using An SSD drive for audio work.

The only problem is, a MacBook Pro is a bit out of my budget, and a lot of the software I'm currently running on my Desktop PC only runs on Windows although Image Line, the makers of FL Studio, are working on a version for Mac OS X.

Good point about the extra hard drive though, I'll be using an external hard drive for audio.

Since I have Windows 7 Home Premium installed on my Desktop PC, I'm eligible for the free update to Windows 10 and I've already signed up to it, I'm pretty excited about the new Windows 10 OS and can't wait to try it out once it's been officially released and installed on my PC, the free update to Windows 10 will be available on July 29th this year so there's not long to go.