Hi guys, right, have been talking to a friend & they know of 3 laptops for sale, all Hewlitt Packard, the first one is a compaq nx9010 at £500, then a nx9005 at £450 & an Evo n1020 at £400.

 

could any of you tell me if they are value for money & would I be able to run music progs like cuebase etc on any of them??

 

thanx:D

If you're buying them second-hand then probably not worth it as they are only about £600 or so new for the nx9010... The specs for them are OK I suppose, but nothing special and cubase etc might be a little slow on any of them...

the minimum i would recommend for any audio prog worth its salt is

 

P3 800mhz

256 ram

 

and that will still be a lame setup..

...and you will need some kind of (usb?) external sound device cos the built in laptop sound will prolly be a awful bogstandard thing that will glitch like hell

thye are brand new & ben looking on net getting info etc, think he is gonna go for it

 

Ian, no doubt you will be quizzed hon

It's one of the better compaq's in the range and has:

 

hp compaq nx9010

P4 2.8 GHz

256M/40G

15" TFT

XGA DVD/CD-RW

ATI M Radeon modem

WXP Pro

 

apparently it's quiet good.

 

so this should be enough to run music programs off then?