Currently, I have an I7 920 system with 20 Gigs of RAM which has been plenty enough for my graphic design purposes as well as music productions thus far. Also with an 8 Gig AMD Radeon RX 570 Sapphire graphics card in there, it has enough power for most games to run.
The thing is though, I don't tend to spend as much time as I used to playing computer games, probably due to many of them not being installed on my Windows 10 OS such as Battlefield 3 which I had played for over 2000 hours over the years from 2012. With the cost of electricity, I've cut down my desktop usage and currently, I spend more time on my old 1.73 GHz dual-core laptop during the day for web browsing.
So I'm now at a bridging point of considering a new alternative which is certainly going to pose a few problems of its own as a complete replacement for everything I wish to do from music production to designing high-resolution instrument GUIs, supporting 2K / 4K sizes.
My current desktop graphics card supports super-resolution up to 4K on a standard 1080P screen. Yes, it makes things smaller but its practical advantage is just to have more screen estate available to work with in Photoshop. I'd need a laptop which will be able to output that to an external monitor. I don't know if a mid-priced laptop of around £600 would be able to do that. From the laptops I've seen, many have a screen resolution of around 1920x1200 for that price range. I don't know if a laptop with a dedicated graphics card built in will allow for a higher resolution to an external monitor as opposed to those that have the GPU built into the CPU itself.
Other issues such as connecting USB devices with so few ports available for all the external hard disks and USB connection of keyboards are going to quite limiting. Powered hubs are an option but I've often found that many devices prefer being connected directly to computer ports. I've also got a Focusright Pro 14 audio interface connecting jack leads and midi cables and that's Firewire-based.
With the I7 920 currently back to its standard clock rate of 2.66 instead of 3.56 where I used to have it and with it being a 2008 model, I'm going to assume that more modern laptops are going to be a lot faster and more power efficient when it comes to the CPU's having potentially more cores and higher clock speeds.
My other issues:
My desktop system is a quagmire mess of wires and devices housed in a big box my monitors sit on. It's as tidy as I could get it on my large desk where almost everything resides but it needs sorting out again or a completely new studio setup design. I'm trying to make more space but keep access to my windows and my computer system stuff accessible at the same time. There's far too much stuff in my room including another desk.
The thing is though, I don't tend to spend as much time as I used to playing computer games, probably due to many of them not being installed on my Windows 10 OS such as Battlefield 3 which I had played for over 2000 hours over the years from 2012. With the cost of electricity, I've cut down my desktop usage and currently, I spend more time on my old 1.73 GHz dual-core laptop during the day for web browsing.
So I'm now at a bridging point of considering a new alternative which is certainly going to pose a few problems of its own as a complete replacement for everything I wish to do from music production to designing high-resolution instrument GUIs, supporting 2K / 4K sizes.
My current desktop graphics card supports super-resolution up to 4K on a standard 1080P screen. Yes, it makes things smaller but its practical advantage is just to have more screen estate available to work with in Photoshop. I'd need a laptop which will be able to output that to an external monitor. I don't know if a mid-priced laptop of around £600 would be able to do that. From the laptops I've seen, many have a screen resolution of around 1920x1200 for that price range. I don't know if a laptop with a dedicated graphics card built in will allow for a higher resolution to an external monitor as opposed to those that have the GPU built into the CPU itself.
Other issues such as connecting USB devices with so few ports available for all the external hard disks and USB connection of keyboards are going to quite limiting. Powered hubs are an option but I've often found that many devices prefer being connected directly to computer ports. I've also got a Focusright Pro 14 audio interface connecting jack leads and midi cables and that's Firewire-based.
With the I7 920 currently back to its standard clock rate of 2.66 instead of 3.56 where I used to have it and with it being a 2008 model, I'm going to assume that more modern laptops are going to be a lot faster and more power efficient when it comes to the CPU's having potentially more cores and higher clock speeds.
My other issues:
My desktop system is a quagmire mess of wires and devices housed in a big box my monitors sit on. It's as tidy as I could get it on my large desk where almost everything resides but it needs sorting out again or a completely new studio setup design. I'm trying to make more space but keep access to my windows and my computer system stuff accessible at the same time. There's far too much stuff in my room including another desk.
Statistics: Posted by THE INTRANCER — Fri Mar 29, 2024 11:58 pm — Replies 0 — Views 40
