Is an Hp Pavilion dv7tqe a good laptop for music production/recording

Hello everyone. I have been thinking about which laptop I should get for recording, mixing, and producing my own music. I obviously can't afford to get a mac with the same specs as a hp so I wanted to know which laptops in the pc category would be the best for my needs starting with the hp. I have read that hp laptops have some unwanted hissing ( among other noises ) that end up on the recordings but this was from posts as early as one year ago so I want to know if thats an issue thats been fixed in the newer models or if its still ongoing. also I have been looking at possibly getting the hp envy if its a better laptop for recording and producing. The specs for the hp dv7tqe that i want would be: an intel core i7-2720qm, 1gb amd radeon hd 7470m gddr5 graphics, 8gb or ram, 750gb hard drive 7200 rpm and the hp envy specs are: an intel core i7-2670qm, 1gb amd radeon hd 6630 graphics, 8 gb of ram and a 750 gb, 7200 rpm hard drive. If anyone out there has any experience with these or is in the industry and has a lot of experience I would really appreciate any info you can share. Also I want to use protools software if its possible without screwing up the recordings with hiss or other kinds of noise. Thank You again for any info.

 

Make sure you get the one with the 1080p screen. The only thing you need to look out for is the Beats Audio. Do these two things:

1. Open the Beats Audio control panel, click the Listening experience section, and uncheck Beats Audio. This gets rid of the special enhancements to make it sound decent on laptop speakers. It messes with the audio output so it's best kept off.

2. Raise the bass in Windows Audio Control Panel from -12 to 0. Beats changes it to -12 when you disable it, probably to make people think it actually helps.

the dv series doesn't have professional-quality audio inputs, so you'll have to have equipment compatible with either USB (it's digital so you don't have to worry about any noise or interference) or the standard 3.5mm (1/8") mic jack.

 

Ok cool. so basically what you're saying is as long as the interface and other equipment is usb compatible then the hiss that everyone talks about shouldnt happen? that would be awesome if so because so far thats really the one thing that put a hault on me buying the dv7tqe and made me start considering saving more for the envy. another question I have is how exclusive to music production and recording should I make the computer? I know its best to have as much space as possible on the hard drive and ram but would using the internet and watching the occasional movie on that laptop be ok? or should I get a seperate computer for that stuff and use the good one only for recording? thank you for the info.

 

Also are samsungs any good for production/recording?

 

The Pavilion series are multimedia laptops. Watching movies and and internet should not be a problem. As far as my experience goes, they are relatively silent laptops, however the fan can be a tad bit noisier (but not that loud) when rendering a video or playing a game.

This laptop should be able to claim most of your audio recording. It should be good enough to handle it.

I haven't heard about the samsung's laptops, so I can't vouch for them.

 

awesome. so i should be good with the dv7 series then. and will pro tools still be a good choice for me?

 

Does anybody have any experience with using protools on HP laptops?

 

IMO, you should get a Sager/Clevo. The people that build custom laptops for music production mostly used Sager/Clevo. For example, MALIBAL has the Lotus P151HM1 configured with i7-2670 8GB RAM 750GB 7200RPM HDD NVIDIA GTX560M all for under $1200. And you get a 1080p screen. It's the 15" model. You can configure others to your liking. And I would use my own audio interface/speakers instead of using Sager onboard audio. Also I think they have firewire on there so fw audio interfaces are an option to if you wanna go that route.