Win 2000 v. XP Pro for laptop taping

[rabhan]

also, i have close to 4gigs available on each partition. you could take 2gigs from each, and then you would have 14-16 available on the data partition... more than enough for a 3 night run from a 30g drive.

[dmonterisi]

i'm gonna be doing 24/96...3 nights of 3 hour shows in wav is about 15 gigs.  i can convert to flac after the show, but still.  and in austin, the first time that i'll run the lappy at a big weekend...there will be 3 nights plus openers plus some kind of dj set i think.  weekends like that will require a lot of space.  plus my suck-ass friends are gonna insist i burn them a copy immediately, so i'll have to creat 16/44 versions as well.

[rabhan]

u will definately need to consider an external drive for dumping data each night if you want to store 24/96 wav, 24/96 flac, 16/44 wav, 16/44 flac, and 16/44 tracked wav, etc.

[dmonterisi]

yeah i've got one that i've got to get replaced or fixed or whatever, but i don't really want to have to travel with it if at all possible.  i'm gonna network with my home box to dump shit.

[rabhan]

i strongly recommend that you test your shit b4 austin. even tho there will be other rigs there, if yours shits the bed or you run out of space, it will def kill your buzz for the weekend.

[dmonterisi]

oh definitely...there are a couple shows in dc i'll tape before then...i should be able to have this together within two weeks.  austin will just be the first big weekend.  i'll have my m1 with me there as a backup plan.  but you're right...there's no way i'd walk into that circus not having run this whole thing for a full show or two.

[Craig T]

I record on a Fujitsu Lifebook S6110: P3, 1.2GHz, 512RAM, 30GB.  I use XP with a UA5 (usb) and V3> VxPocket (pcmcia).  Software: nTrack, Sound Forge 5.0.  No problems 24/48, but I have had a few 24/96 recordings with a 'skipping' problem like the software froze for a split second then continuted.

My previous 2 laptops both had 2kPro and also worked very well for recording.

[DaryanLenz]

At least...My rule of thumb has been for 24/48 1 gig per hour, but I allow for at least 1.5!

Daryan

[ianstone]

rabhan and/or shittytapes

would you guys be willing to help me out with setting up my new machine?
I just ordered my new laptop:
Fujitsu Lifebook p2120. 384MB Ram 933mhz Crusoe TM5800 Processor, 40GB Hard Drive, Standard batt in main bay, hi capacity batt in 2nd bay, and 3rd batt in 'modular' bay. Fujitsu says runtime is 17.5hrs, should be fine for 12+hrs
I got a vxpocket (a few months ago when they had the sale for 199).

I run mbho's>mp2>ad2k+, so i have the 24 bit/48khz signal.

I can get wavlab from my friend - probly can get win 2k also.
It comes with WinXP (home edition).

I know about computers, but could use some help on this one (ie partitioning, dual boot, etc?)

Thanks in advance....

Peace,
ian stone

[Simp-Dawg]

ian...i can help also if you need any *inexpensiveU* software.
as for setting everything up, follow the basic guidelines found in the 24-bit faq...www.24bitfaq.org, then optimize it by eliminating unnecessary services, info found here http://www.blkviper.com/WIN2K/servicecfg.htm.  
here's some info about setting up dual-boot with xp - http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q306559.
i'd leave about 5 gb for each OS partition (or skew that so that more space is given to the xp partition as it requires more space where win2k does not require as much), and then leave the remaining ~30gb for a third partition for audio storage.
you can use the win2k installation disk to create these partitions.

i think your setup is going to be quite sweet...those lifebooks seem great for taping, vxpocket is a stable device (AFAIK) and you've got plenty of battery power.  good luck!

[dmonterisi]

Fujitsu Lifebook p2120. 384MB Ram 933mhz Crusoe TM5800 Processor, 40GB Hard Drive, Standard batt in main bay, hi capacity batt in 2nd bay, and 3rd batt in 'modular' bay. Fujitsu says runtime is 17.5hrs, should be fine for 12+hrs

ian,
i just ordered almost the same machine.  but so far, i only have the regular battery (well, i don't have anything yet, it should arrive later this week)...but are you sure that you can put all 3 batteries in at once?  I was under the impression you could only do either the standard or hi capacity plus the modular, but not all 3.  

i think maybe the standard and the hi-cap batt are hot-swappable when the modular battery is in use, but i'm not sure about that.  

i am considering whether to buy those additional batteries or go with some other option.

any other lifebook users out there chime in?  thx.

-damon

[ianstone]

Fujitsu Lifebook p2120. 384MB Ram 933mhz Crusoe TM5800 Processor, 40GB Hard Drive, Standard batt in main bay, hi capacity batt in 2nd bay, and 3rd batt in 'modular' bay. Fujitsu says runtime is 17.5hrs, should be fine for 12+hrs

ian,
i just ordered almost the same machine.  but so far, i only have the regular battery (well, i don't have anything yet, it should arrive later this week)...but are you sure that you can put all 3 batteries in at once?  I was under the impression you could only do either the standard or hi capacity plus the modular, but not all 3.  

i think maybe the standard and the hi-cap batt are hot-swappable when the modular battery is in use, but i'm not sure about that.  

i am considering whether to buy those additional batteries or go with some other option.

any other lifebook users out there chime in?  thx.

-damon

Damon, good question. I was under the impression that there are two 'regular' battery bays... so you can have the standard and hicap in at the same time. then the modular bay allows for a 3rd batt (when you take out the dvd/cdrw drive).
But, if you're right, and there only is 1 'regular' battery bay, i would think that with the modular battery in there you can 'hotswap' between the std. battery and the hicap battery.
Either way, it looks like it'll be enough battery power!

Ask Tall. He owns a lifebook p2000 series, i originally was going to buy his... but he was asking $1200 and I was able to get a faster computer, with more ram and hard disk space, brand new, for 1685 with all3 batts. (incl. tax and shipping)

Before you place your order (unless you already have) do a quick google search for fujitsu coupon code and you should be able to find pretty easily 2 deals that are valid now. 1 is $50 off $1000 purchase. The other is free shipping.  It would not let me use both so i opted for the free shipping.

Let me know what you find out -  i won't know anything till i get mine

[rando]

can i use the different users/profiles in wkpro to make a profile that is solely for recording?   i only want wavlab running, no firewall, office, etc....

i am new to 2kpro, i know in win98 you used to b able to go start>run>msconfig to turn off proggies in the background, how do u do that in 2kpro!?!?!!??

when my puter boots up, it goes rite to "user" profile, i have to log off user to goto admin profile....

thanks!
rando

[rabhan]

i use 2k for taping and xp for web'ing......

2k must be installed before xp

24bit.org is great, read it, read it a 2nd time, and then read it a 3rd time.

30hdd(28 usable)
2k - 6g allocated 2 used 4 available
xp - 10/6/4
data partition - 12/2/10