https://www.pbtech.co.nz/product/NBKASU ... k-14-1080p
It seems there's an online sale following on from Black Friday (whatever that is) with some decent deals, and I'm going to get back into making some music - been out of it for 5 or 6 years. My old music PC died while in storage, but although would have been useable it was from 2003 or thereabouts running an old Cubase SX2 version, so...considerably out of date. Anyways - will get back into it with a laptop - have a room downstairs that'll do for the studio and will probably use the laptop for streaming TV upstairs too - which is why I want laptop rather than desktop (which would be my preferred option) - at least I can pack it and move it upstairs easily.
I definitely want SSD, and budget is around NZ$1500 - doesn't seem to be much more than 512GB SSDs available in that price range - is that going to be enough? Bearing in mind, I'll still be recording a load of old h/w, definitely not just s/w only, so I won't be working it overly hard - might even dust off some of the old FX boxes as well, but in the main my VST strain would be for FX. I reckoned 8GB RAM should be able to take that strain well enough. I don't know much about CPUs, so is that i7 a reasonable workhorse for music? I tend to record down to audio and mess about mostly with audio rather than running too many VSTs etc.
The screen is probably on the small size, but almost certainly I'll put it out to a larger monitor - it has the usual HDMI output and 2xUSB2 and 2xUSB3, so I figure it's got enough connectivity for soundcard etc.
I don't want to go much over that budget as I'll have to get a new soundcard and DAW (had a sweet old Aardvark soundcard but no new drivers for Win10 sadly). Knowing almost nothing about laptops, this one looked like it is a reasonable compromise on most aspects needed for music (considering most laptops seem to be for gamers or business orientated).
Cheers for any input. (I rather missed good old KvR - a bit like a comfy old blanket that I thought mum had thrown away, only to find it in the attic in my declining years...
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