Hey ppl, you have to check the new ProStar 8894 laptop!

[BrainStove]

Because I had a couple of Sager and ProStar laptops sometime ago and due they are great performers, I?m always looking on their websites for new models hoping they release the perfect dreaming DJ-VJ laptop workstation (Price-Performance).

And now apparently ProStar is pretty closer to that dream with the 8894 model, check this out on www.pro-star.com

I have to tell you in advance that this model have a lot of VJ key features the competition are missing... among many others look at this:
1.- Analog video capture S-video In
2.- Audio jack LineIn aside the MicIn connector
3.- S/PDIF out connector
4.- 1 serial port (Absent on almost all of the new laptops around)
5.- Built in TV-Tuner with RC
6.- 1 Sony memory stick slot
7.- 102 Keys Win 95 Keyboard with numeric keypad

Well as you can see just these 7 features are not very common to find on the new laptop models anywhere... so check it for yourself and tell me your opinion.

Sorry if this post looks like a coarse ProStar salesman advertising, but because I don?t have any laptop at the moment (willing to buy one soon) and I?m really glad to find finally one with my most wanted features... well that?s the reason of my excitement. :jump:

Cheers for everybody and help me out with your comments to buy the mine very soon. :nod:

[LEVLHED]

wow, that does seem pretty slick.
Are there any other laptop manufacturers who have video capture built in like that? Of course there's alway firewire...but that svid-in would be pretty darn handy for whipping up loops on the spot? wonder what format it captures to...
If only it had the new bomb geforce video chipset....

[BrainStove]

I was on the Dell website a few days ago, trying to select as many features as possible to configure a Dell 8200 laptop comparable with the ProStar 8894 base model and I left "watered eyes" to see that 8200 configuration price was $3500.00+ even without some of the exclusive ProStar features (TV tuner, Memory stick slot, etc.)... spooky and spanky isn?t it?.

Well pals, maybe it have not sense wait more time to give to the ProStar 8894 laptop a try, on my side I?m eagerly hoping for your comments to take the decision to buy the mine ASAP.

[murph]

really? my 8200, admittedly with only a 1.6ghz cpu, was $1900. I got the best video card, the 1440x1050 screen, the 5400rpm 40GB HD, and a 16x cd burner. An extra $180 spent elsewhere bumped me to 384MB of RAM and a belkin USB capture thingy. (dongle?)

Let me put the performance this way, there's an option in visualjockey to limit your framerate to whatever... I never thought I'd want to limit it, but I have to set it to 30fps with this thing or it looks insane.

The big feature that swung me on the geforce4 440 go in the 8200, was the fact that both ramdacs running the lcd and the vga out/svid out are equal speed, meaning you can have the second monitor at a totally seperate/equal res/speed. Not that speed's a concern... =]

But yeah, I totally wish I could have a better capture device with this laptop, but firewire and a dv-bridge will be far better than the capture card on my desktop ever was.

[snapdragon]

hey murph (again)

what is this:

belkin USB capture thingy.

how much are they, what do they capture from/to, are they good and where can i get one?

[MoRpH]

http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=&Section_Id=1999&pcount=&Product_Id=88962&Section.Section_Path=%2F%2FRoot%2FUSB%2FPCProducts %2FAdapters%2Fct_Id>

I have one aswell and they are a great little unit, cheap and they work well..... personally I use mine for all of my analogue capture and I also use it in live situations in conjunction with and old laptop and playcap.exe as an impromptu video monitor :)

[snapdragon]

cool pal and ntsc.

another thing on my gottaget list...

[BrainStove]

Just some Info/Tips/Hints I?ve found that could lead you to hurry up lifting the ProStar 8894 laptop arms as a winner in the "Best value full featured VJ laptop" contest.

Just check & read this review: http://www.tomshardware.com/mobile/02q1/020220/index.html