Laptop

[zeist]

what is required in a laptop for vjing would YOU say?

just after opinions here really.
Thanks.

zeista

[MoRpH]

lots of RAM, HDD and a good CPU (same as anything really)....... video out if your using a fullscreen prog, goodish graphix card.... DVD player is cool too.... oh and remember to get as many USB and firewire ports as you can, nice big active matrix screen.....

[zeist]

the graphics cards i see in laptop systems are 8mb or 16mb.. is it different to pc cards- being 64 -128mb+? if its no different surely they would sux0? Can you get beefy graphics cards for laptop?

I was wandering about dual screen with laptop. My application is to bring the laptop home to my workstation, where there is a monitor. Can I use it as an independant monitor? (as in-not a clone)

Laptops dont have pci slots? so how do you get a firewire/usb slot?

What do YOU use USB for? have you used usb2 yet? or firewire2?
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[MoRpH]

hmmmm I think you can get ones with like geforce cards and that.

yes all laptops that have 98 and higher can have the VGA out set as a second desktop (not clone)

I have 2usb on board and a PCMCIA 2port firewire card

[PiedPiper]

As far as laptops go, i would reccomend a top of the line dell inspirion 8100 or a top toshiba.

these models are available with either a Gf2go, GeForce4 go, or the ati mobility 7000m graphics chipsets.

any of these would be ok, personally for me laptops are shockingly slow and almost unusable when i compare them to my desktop.

it mostly depends on weather your a video based person or a 3d based person i think.

but definetly go for as many firewire and usb(2) ports as possible.

morph: what kind of laptop(s) do you have/use?

[MoRpH]

a new toshy te2000 (1ghz, 256mb, 20gb) and an old toshy satallite 2060cds (366mhz, 160mb, 20gb)..... they do me fine :)