I am buying a new laptop and I was curious to see what you much smarter and more techical savvy people think -- I want to make sure you think it should be sufficient to run VDL2 with Cubase and Sibelius 4:

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7200 (2.00GHz, 4MB L2 Cache, 667MHz FSB)
2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHZ, 2 DIMM
160GB 5400 RPM SATA Hard Drive
Sound Blaster® Audigy™ HD Software Edition

I have a similar setup for my laptop and it works great.  I'm not a big fan of the Audigy line (prefer m-audio) but it's better than the stock soundcard and should give you good midi latency. 

I just mentioned in another thread that getting a Mac is a little more expensive, but keeps its resale value [i]very[/i] well.  You can get a factory refurbished model from apple.com for a good price, and get a comparible price when it's time to upgrade to a newer model.  If you drop $2k on a dell or similar pc, you'll be lucky to get half of that when you sell it.  OS X is superior to Windows for media creation anyways, and it's the standard for ";pro"; studio use.  But if you must play video games on it, then get the PC :)

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��But if you must play video games on it, then get the PC :)
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WHAAAAAT?  Unreal Tournement cranks on my Macs!  ;^)

Yeah... so how does Half-Life 2, Battlefront II, Battlefield 2142, Elder Scrolls IV, Far Cry, or F.E.A.R. run on that Mac?

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Yeah... so how does Half-Life 2, Battlefront II, Battlefield 2142, Elder Scrolls IV, Far Cry, or F.E.A.R. run on that Mac?

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Are those games? ;) I guess I'm officially getting old...

Yeah... games... I'm a nerd.  Every time I try to silence my inner geek and become a productive citizen, Lucasarts releases another Star Wars game.

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Yeah... so how does Half-Life 2, Battlefront II, Battlefield 2142, Elder Scrolls IV, Far Cry, or F.E.A.R. run on that Mac?


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Great via Bootcamp. :wink: