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    Portable Music Studio

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by alynch75, Jun 5, 2009.

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    alynch75 Notebook Evangelist

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    I need to set up a portable music studio workstation:

    I am tyring to decide between the dell xps m1330 and the dell studio xps 13....which would be better...........I plan on running Propellarhead Reasons 4.0 and CUBASE vst... along with sonly acid music studio.... Please advise.
     
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    alynch75 Notebook Evangelist

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    Is anyone there to help.
     
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    Quicklite Notebook Deity

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    XPS 13 is a more up-to-date package. It has useful addition, such as backlit keypad, useful if the lighting isn't good in your studio. Its built more stylishly than M1330 imo. Though being newer means its more expensive.

    If you do go with M1330, make sure it doesn't have a 8400m graphic card, as that is associated with abnormal rate of failure.
     
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    Okay so if I go for the M1330 without the 8400 graphic card will that onbaord intel card work. isn't the intergrated graphic option a hinderance to peformance.
     
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