need new laptop

Hobbyguy
Hobbyguy Posts: 317
edited March 2009 in Electronics
Some know that I purchased the Wavelength Brick USB-DAC and am using my 7 y/o toshiba with itunes to run it. It uses the XP OS. The wavelength site states that XP doesn't work very well with this DAC and recommends upgrade to a laptop with Vista; KMIXER alters the data in XP. They also recommend J River media Center for CD management/ripping. I have been looking and found ASUS G71G-Q2 which I think will work well for what I want. Can anybody recommend a good laptop that would be a good music server/watch the occasional blu-ray movie; budget is under $2000. It needs to be fast.
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  • Sherardp
    Sherardp Posts: 8,038
    edited March 2009
    Dell XPS 1530.
    Shoot the jumper.....................BALLIN.............!!!!!

    Home Theater Pics in the Showcase :cool:

    http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showcase/view.php?userid=73580
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  • Hobbyguy
    Hobbyguy Posts: 317
    edited March 2009
    Yes I still like my toshiba....it is a 3 Ghz pentium 4 satellite with 17" screen. I have never had a BSOD with this laptop. When I bought it the first thing I did was replace the HD with a faster HD. It makes a huge diff. The original HD had a speed less than 5400. I upgraded it to 7200.
    Will check out that website....will check out that XPS 1530
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  • Mike21
    Mike21 Posts: 252
    edited March 2009
    Hi Hobbyguy.

    If possible, you might use the new laptop for audio only and your current laptop for everything else. Or, the current one for audio only and the new one for everything else.

    Mike
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    Home Theater 32"LG LCD; Comcast; 7.1 Onkyo 805; Fronts: Polk M50s; Center: Polk CS2; Sides: Polk M40s; Rear: B&W LM1s; Subs: (2) Sony 12" x 100w; Samsung 1500BDP; Toshiba A-2 HD-DVDP.
    PC stereo: Viper custom PC: Windows XP; ASIO4ALL; JRiver Jukebox> Pop Pulse USB to S/PDIF conv> Monarchy DIP > Musiland MD10 DAC > Parasound 2100 pre> Aragon 4004 MKII amp> Dali Ikon6 towers; Sunfire True Sub; PSA Duet, Ultimate outlet and Noise Harvestors.
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