how is this laptop?

gregmcnichol · Post by **gregmcnichol** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 1:41 am

I know its old but im getting it for 100$ from a friend an IBM Thinkpad A31 1.9 p4 M 512 ram I use an ibook with live but would tihs lappy be able to run live also?

maxbaun · Post by **maxbaun** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 2:05 am

Beats me. I'd buy it just to have an back-up computer incase something goes terribly wrong during a gig or something. I've never tried syncing two computers to run live, but i guess you can try and sync Mac and PC. On the other hand, you could save up your money and sell you iBook if you want a new comuter, that's what i did. I bought a pbook 15".

gregmcnichol · Post by **gregmcnichol** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 2:07 am

Well not looking to use both at same time i was just wondeirng if the a31 could handle live

maxbaun · Post by **maxbaun** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 2:25 am

You could probably run live on it, but it probably won't be as fast as you would like. Do you think you'll use it live or just in the studio? That is important in choosing a computer.

gregmcnichol · Post by **gregmcnichol** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 2:40 am

well neither really id probably just install it on that lappy to play around on if it worked nothing serious

maxbaun · Post by **maxbaun** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 3:05 am

yea. go for it if you want it, nothing to really loose for a lappy that's 100 bucks. The only thing is i don't understand why you need a second lappy, is your iBook not working properly?

gregmcnichol · Post by **gregmcnichol** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 3:21 am

Nah ibook works great but it only has 30gig internal drive and i like to keep all my music stuff on i so im going to strickly use the ibook for music and do web browsing and school work on the new one

studio615 · Post by **studio615** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 1:00 pm

I think for $100 dollars this deal is a great one. I work for a school district in the IT dept. We have a whole fleet of this model laptop. They are pretty reliable, although we have had some problems with video. I have had screens go bad, and also the video card onboard has been flakey on several of them. But overall it is a good machine, especially at that price. Live will run fantastic on it.

gregmcnichol · Post by **gregmcnichol** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 8:55 pm

awsome thanks for the info! wish i could find a performence test on here to compare it to the ibook haha