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    Lenovo Thinkpad t410 for Audio/DAW

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by robodelfy, Aug 19, 2010.

  1. robodelfy

    robodelfy Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi everyone,

    i have been looking at this laptop as a DAW/audio laptop. I was wondering if anyone has tried this yet, I will be running some pretty heavy projects in Cubase.

    I own an RME fireface UC audio interface, so if anyone is using this laptop with one of these please let me know if its going well with no clicks and pops.

    Also i was wondering about DPC latency, and if this is a problem with this laptop. Please use this program to check if you own a T410 and post the results

    DPC Latency Checker


    thanks

    Alex
     
    robodelfy, Aug 19, 2010
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  2. eoneel

    eoneel Notebook Guru

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    I bought this laptop to use for my next DAW setup. Running Sonar 8.5, with a FireFace UC. If you're planning on using a firewire interface it's a crapshoot. The T410 uses the ricoh chipset which are known to be problematic for firewire audio interfaces. If you could find a USB interface with latency you can live with, I see it to be a very solid laptop for DAW use. Do a clean install and get rid of all the $hit you don't need that comes pre installed of course.
     
    eoneel, Aug 27, 2010
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  3. robodelfy

    robodelfy Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi, thanks for your reply.

    i have an RME fireface UC, and its pretty solid, so it should be fine, its USB. I am leaning more towards the t510 now
     
    robodelfy, Aug 28, 2010
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    eoneel Notebook Guru

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    Hell yes! T510 would be nice. RME is such a solid piece of gear too. I don't think you could pick a better notebook for a DAW unless you went with a company that specifically builds DAW's. On that note, you might want to check ADK Pro Audio out. I purchased one a couple years back and it's rock solid. I would say they are definitely in the upper echelon of DAW designed computers.
     
    eoneel, Aug 28, 2010
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    Omegatron Notebook Enthusiast

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    According to two tests on notebookcheck.net, the T510 has worse DPC problems than the T410.

    T410 with a Core i7 620M CPU, a dedicated NVIDIA NVS 3100M graphic card, 4 GB DDR3 RAM, Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 AGN (agn), 2.1 Bluetooth
    [​IMG]

    Review Lenovo Thinkpad T410 2522-3FG Notebook - Notebookcheck.net Reviews

    T510 with a discrete Nvidia NVS 3100 graphic card and a 4 GB DDR3 RAM, Intel Core i7 620M 2.66 GHz, Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 AGN (agn), 2.1 Bluetooth
    [​IMG]

    Review Lenovo Thinkpad T510 - 4349-4JG Notebook - Notebookcheck.net Reviews

    I thought the T410 looked good enough, but other threads say they both have problems. This certainly isn't giving me a good impression of Thinkpad's "quality". Is this only a problem with certain video/wireless cards?
     
    Omegatron, Nov 1, 2010
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