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SORTED Good laptop for music production (eg LENOVO Yoga 2 Pro)
I was about to take the plunge on a 4 year old MacBook Pro for £1400(!!) and had a word with myself!
They are undoubtedly great machines but too pricey for me to justify! So after reading lots of threads on here, the Lenovo Yoga 2 Ultrabook seems a good compromise for music production.
Happy to look at anything else but thinking the following specs would be ideal:
- i7 processor
- at least 8GB RAM
- at least 256GB SSD
Is there anything out there?
Comments
Are you dead set on a yoga or are you open to Carbons or a w540?
EDIT: Just had a quick look on their site - this looks good (back to Lenovo), if you can stretch to another £50:
https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/lenovo-ideapad-320s-14-laptop-mineral-grey-10164497-pdt.html
1080p screen
i7-8550U
256GB Samsung EVO SSD (alternatively a 256GB Samsung M2 SSD is £3 more)
8GB RAM
No operating system but it's easy enough to stick Windows 10 on a USB stick, install it, then buy a licence key from Ebay for peanuts. If cash is a concern, drop down to the i5 8250U and it's £530. That i5 is a more than capable audio processor.
https://techreport.com/review/32863/intel-core-i5-8250u-cpu-reviewed/15
https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/ultraNoteIV-14/
They also offer some good finance options including 12 months interest free.
https://www.gearslutz.com/board/showpost.php?p=12873878&postcount=2
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Schenker-Slim-14-Clevo-N240WU-i5-8250U-UHD-620-Laptop-Review.276838.0.html
The hardest thing to judge is fan noise from a laptop.
Prices have certainly gone up. The Lenovo Ideapad V110 I bought for my mum last April for £330 is now £410. So the PC Specialist prices are pretty good compared to the big name computer companies.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lenovo-15-6-inch-Processor-Graphics-Windows/dp/B00FSBEXEK
https://www.gumtree.com/p/laptops/lenovo-y510p-i7-4700mq-2x-gt-750m-sli-12gb-ram-full-hd/1293058798
https://www.gumtree.com/p/laptops/clevo-15.6-i7-3630qm-6gb-ram-500gb-hdd-gt-635m-hd4000-win-10-pro/1293049571
upgrade the hd to an ssd, reinstall everything, probably ddr3 memory so could consider upgrade as clevo laptops generally have maintenance hatches underneath meaning tinkering is easy.
250 for the laptop, 140 for a new Samsung SSD...