If you want reliable power and perfect y3 onsite warranty, get a thinkpad. Sth like a T450 is a good compromise on power and portability.
That is one glaringly obvious downer I failed to mention. Well spotted
They may be fine from a music production perspective but forget about any sort of worthwhile typing on those butterfly keys. They are just awful. The limited key travel actually makes it feel like you are typing on a janky touch screen.
At least apple have came out and said they know they suck and the design is flawed.
On the other hand…
Rgb colour coded keys that change dependant in which track you are using in ableton? Yes please razer!
If a Thinkpad with a 6-core processor comes out soon, I’d go for that I think.
I have an Asus Rog strix which has a short action mechanical like keyboard built in… its pretty nice. But if you aren’t rendering videos or playing games you can get a computer with way way better battery life less cost by avoiding a full scale graphics card like a 1060. Graphics cards don’t really do squat for music production.
Actually, I just saw this…
omg I want this computer so bad. Yeah, this is the one I’m getting.
What exactly do you need 6 cores for?
Lots of RAM oc, but 4 cores at a decent speed with propper cooling should bring you places.
Did you ever get to CPU limit yet?
I only use a dual-core now, but I’ve definitely hit my limits with Reason when I start stacking things, or lowering the latency. I’d love to be able to do these things without having to worry… just have it on the best latency possible, etc. in a care-free manner.
But can you run crysis?
Lol I figured with your avatar you know what I mean!
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I did liveacts back in the days with a single core about 1GHz on reason 3 and 4 
But of course, things have changed.
Would still go for a quality product with good warranty instead of a newcomer packed with power in a loud gaming laptop.
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Ha! Got me.
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I had a win10 laptop, getting Overbridge to work with my 3 different Elektron device was hell. It’s not really about Windows itself though, it comes down to which usb chipset is present on the motherboard and what quality of driver for it is available. I wasn’t lucky, so I bought a mac, that was plug and play. And for me this is the culprit : I work IT by day so I don’t want to be doing too many things with computers when I get home, and sure don’t want to be doing any of it when I make music. When I make music, I just want to make music. Mac provided that for me.
Back to your initial point: my mac has 256GB. I have some NI stuff installed so I keep samples I currently use on my SSD, and the full collection is on a USB HDD. Essentials are also on Google Drive for ease/backup.
How is the Lenovo ThinkPad P52 not a quality product? Yeah, as soon as I start stacking all my Softube REs in Reason, I can get things to choke real quick.
I meant the razor with thaz statement.
Ah, yes. I’m digging that Thinkpad P52 more now.
You pay for thr display and gfx card you do not need (for music production). And I doubt that this beast can be cooled quitly.
A nice config will be way above 2k€ I suppose.
I don’t use a laptop, for music production, i think i need a tower ( more power, a sound card not usb, more usb , a 22 inch screen for clear view ) and it’s dope, for live use even and old laptop but with a good sound card and 8 gigs of ram will do ( if you’re using live and loops with exported effects already and just a bunch of vst for live playing : 1 reverb, 1 delay, 1 filter and glitch 2 for exemple. Disk space on my tower i recently installed a 256 go ssd for my system and it’s enough for my applications and vst,but i have 3 others storage disk for a total of 3,5 to. You could easily pick a laptop with 256 ssd ( ssd recommended ) and take another disk for storage of music, sample, movies and backup but less than 256 is not enough in my opinion.
for me though I want something pretty powerful, but also capable of being moved around and taken with you anywhere. I hated feeling left out when everyone had their work on their laptops, when my work was stuck at home on my desktop
Windows 10 is real crap for music production, as soon as you have older hardware, my sound card does’nt work above 48000hz and i don’t have full duplex, my master keyboard drivers is not compatible ( just replace a 6 with a 10 in xml file ) , every update is uninstalled because this is not signed anymore, ur kidding me. My hardware work fine i don’t want to buy another so i downgrade to win7 . Every win10 update is almost forced and happen at the worst time , like 4 hours to update this crappy system. I hate windows 10
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If you are mostly just using the computer for music production, 512gb can go a long ways depending how large your sample library is. My tower has a 512gb SSD and then use a network drive to store excess. I’ve moved the majority of my samples to the external drive. Previewing sounds may take half a second, but once loaded up into ram is just fine. A USB or thunderbolt drive would probably be faster and not have much of any delay.
Mac/PC’s are both good. I like both, but my preference has switched to PC for now as the cost ratio for what you get is much better at the moment. For PC laptops, just make sure you get from a reputable company. A few big brand names are known for issues in certain areas.