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Does anyone know what kind of firewire chip do Dell Precision M6400 have?

Again, do you want to carry around a ups or would you rather carry a few laptops, because if the power goes out for any reason during a show, you are looking at the longest minutes of your life while everything reboots. As I said, I started to think about laptop, but I need some recomendation. Few ...

Right now I'm looking through laptops with quad core processors. Too bad I'm in Poland, otherwise I would buy one at adkproaudio.com or xtremenotebooks.com. Is there any kind of above in europe?

ava wrote:http://www.tower-cases.co.uk/productdet ... oductID=24

I got one, smallest 3U I could find.

It seems that two i posted before are smaller.

oh, there are LOTS of laptops that do what you want, but you don't need 6-pin powered firewire. Any arguments for "well, then you need powersupplies" and so on don't quite cut it when you're prepared to buy a rackmount pc! Almost EVERY laptop manufacturer makes "gaming grade" fl...

i dont know much about video, but whenever ive looked over at their setups, i see mac laptops. As I said before, Mac is not a option. Well, simply I need something elastic. You know, to customize my setup, with my own PCI cards. This is not only for vj-ing. Laptop can get one cardbus... only one. T...

Don't do it, buy one or more laptops. I know the theory of a super beast machine makes sense on paper, but i have never seen someone dragging out a computer and monitor and keyboard, and... and not have problems, whereas given the number of laptops ive seen out, there have been very few problems. D...

Antec is too long (standard rack case depth is 17 inches / ~43 cm) and Antec have 20.5 inches / 52 cm Well, laptop (especially mac) is not an option for me. This computer will be responsible for lot of things (like audio, vj-ing and few lights here and there, all centralized with custom pci cards) T...

You'd a have many better options if you just based your setup around a 4U case. Here is a great looking military grade case. It's 15" deep and made of steel. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3655176&csid=ITD&body=MAIN#productresources 4U is lit...

jonny72 wrote:A server rackmount case is likely to be far better for the job than a standard case as they're built for that sort of thing - running constantly in a rack of servers.

Yup, but in most part its far more noisy.

Is there anybody touring with rackmounted pc? what do you use?

Khazul wrote:Instead of rack mount - what about a Shuttle bare bones system?

thanks for links, but I'm convinced it should be a rackmount PC. We travel and fly a lot.

Machinesworking wrote:They want 750 euro for the case alone???

heh, dump Google tranlate PLN (polish zloty) to EURO

It will be about 215 €

Check out http://www.acnodes.com/zebcategory_6.htm]Acnodes . hmm... well.. I would radher fill it with my own stuff (I have specific needs, like ssd hard drive, also they don't have proccessor that i wish it have). And what's worst - it seems they dont ship to Poland :/ Anyway can you express your ...

I need to buy a rackmount case for my PC. It will be used on stage. Are a few things that I take into account: - It can't weight too much due to the fact that it will be often carried around. - not be too deep, it should fit to 45cm rack (~17 inches). - 2U or 3U - It should be not too loud (I will u...

what are the specs of your laptop so you don't trust it on stage? It's not a question on trust, but rather on being serious about that possibility. I'm far from being paranoid, but you know, shit happens... that's why peoples use backup laptops and lot of crazy stuff. All i need is ability to switc...