Ray, Our family owns two Toshiba laptops. I bought an 875 as an early present to myself--4 CPUs and 8 gb of ram. Son has an earlier version (forget the number). Both are well-made workhorses at reasonable prices at best buy. On the down side, the hard drive in my new 875 spins at only 5400 rpm, rather than the recommended 7200 for Garritan work.
I did notice a bit of popping in some finale files that I solved by increasing latency. When I get back from the Midwest band clinic, I'm going to attach my ASIO audio interface, which will solve that issue. As to video, the 875 has a big screen but I do the dual monitor thing with a large pivoting screen. Having said that, the Toshiba screens are big enough to do some good work when not hooked into the second screen. Finally, my new 875 came with Windows 8, which I do not like. I seriously considered wiping the HDD when I got it and installing 7, but thought I'd go with the flow. It reminds me of my iPad. ;-( I am now happily working with finale 2012, and every Garritan library all the way back to the original GPO... Jim Sent from my iPhone, so please pardon all the typos. On Dec 18, 2012, at 9:15 AM, "Dennis Bathory-Kitsz" <bath...@maltedmedia.com> wrote: > On Tue, December 18, 2012 8:53 am, Raymond Horton wrote: >> Do you think the Toshiba laptop described would make a good second PC, >> capable of running Finale and Garritan? > > Can't help you there -- I seriously dislike laptops for scoring, and don't use > them for any serious work. I have the big laptop running Linux, so no Finale > there. Laptop screens are too small for scoring work. > > My little Dell netbook works great for special purposes and for keeping a > diary when traveling. I actually used the netbook for my opera -- I couldn't > afford to bring in a cimbalom player, so got a customized set of cimbalom > samples from Bolder Sounds and ran it using Finale's Aria player driven from > an external Kurzweil keyboard. > > I do like my customized desktop system with its big monitors and fast hard > drives. (When I'm traveling, I pretty much switch to paper and pencil and > enter the music when I get back home.) > > Dennis > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
