Rain Recording LiveBook Pentium M Mobile Laptop Audio Computer

Manufacturer's Description for Rain Recording LiveBook Pentium M Mobile Laptop Audio Computer

Bring the Studio with You
If you're a songwriter you know that inspiration can come at any time. Imagine the power of carrying your own demo studio. If you're a DJ you know the back breaking pain of lugging decks and discs from show to show. Imagine your entire collection and the power to spin in a lightweight package that fits in a backpack. If you're a pro engineer you know what its like to go days without seeing the sun. Imagine taking the show on the road.

Rugged but Sleek
The LiveBook is light and sleek, designed to handle sustained levels of intense hard drive and CPU utilization of 90%.

"The system demands of multi-track audio production far exceed those of typical office and graphics applications for which most generic laptops were designed. The risk of overheating is compounded by the inferior conditions of typical mobile environments. Particularly with audio production, system failure carries a very high cost. By using properly balanced, low power components and generous convection cooling, the LiveBook provides the best performance possible while making stability a priority." -- Bill Paschick: President Rain Recording

Totally Modular
The modularized component design offers generous airflow cooling through the LiveBook's four vents, and also makes field serviceability a straightforward process. LiveBook components such as the hard drive, memory, keyboard, and CPU are easily user-replaceable.

"Warranties are great, but when you need a system fixed in two hours, the modular nature of the LiveBook makes it possible to replace key components with readily available parts so that you can make it through a gig." -- Jason Parma: Technical Support Rain Recording

Fast and Quiet
A state-of-the-art Pentium M processor with Hyper-Threading tears up any command no matter how many tracks you've got. A brilliantly designed cooling system keeps the LiveBook cool and quiet running with optimal CPU and PSU fan speeds slow enough to keep it virtually silent no matter how close your mics are.

See What You Believe
The LiveBook's 15.4 in. widescreen offers almost as much screen space as a 17 in. screen while allowing much better portability. The internal hard drive boasts an 8MB buffer -- 4 times the amount of most generic laptops, and a more important factor than just spindle speed in preventing audio engine bottlenecks that cause dropouts, stops, or lock-ups.

To increase hard drive versatility, Rain also offers the Storm Drive Pocket external drive, which provides the same LiveBook hard drive performance in a shock-mounted USB 2.0/FireWire enclosure.

Features:
Intel Pentium M 1.6G (2M) 730J 533MHz Centrino

Intel 915GM/PM + ICH6-M Chipset

1GB 533 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

15.4 in. Wide XGA TFT display; 1280 x 1024 resolution; 16.7 million colors

Intel Graphics 915GM/PM integrated graphics (Dedicated 128MB)

AC '97 and High Definition Audio, 5.1 / 7.1 Channel Surround Sound

2 Internal Stereo Speakers

60GB 5400 RPM 8MB buffer IDE hard disk

Optical Drive Combo CD-RW+DVD

56K Soft Modem, V.90/92 support

Ethernet 10/100 Base T on-board

5-in-1; supports SmartMedia, MultiMediaCard, Memory Stick, and Secure Digital and xD-Picture memory card formats
PCMCIA 2.1; supports one Type II card

Touch pad with 4-way scroll function; 2-click buttons and one scroll button

Sonar LE Digital Audio Workstation

Cakewalk Sonar LE
Cakewalk Sonar LE is the feature-rich recording software for aspiring musicians and producers getting started with PC-based recording. Cakewalk, the makers of Sonar, the definitive audio production environment on the Windows platform, has become synonymous with musical technology that balances power with ease of use. In Sonar LE they are now bringing you a host of powerful recording tools based on Cakewalk's award-winning Sonar audio and MIDI technology. With Sonar LE and the audio hardware it comes bundled with, you now have everything you need to make your own multi-track recordings.

Sonar LE Features:
An easy to use, intuitive interface

Record it all with 64 audio and 256 MIDI tracks

Pristine audio quality up to: 24-bit / 192 kHz

14 studio-quality real-time audio effects and 6 MIDI effects

Making backing tracks fast with: audio loop construction tools with ACID-format loop support

Get that professional mix with a dynamic mixing console view

Create MIDI Drum parts with a multi-port graphical drum editor

Edit all of your MIDI with an easy to use multitrack piano roll view

Edit and print your music and with Staff notation that includes lyrics and chord changes

Add more effects and instruments support for DirectX/DXi, VST/VSTi, and ReWire 2.0

Build arrangements fast with Cyclone DXi groove sampler

Get fat classic synth tones with Dreamstation DXi virtual analog soft synth

Sync up with other hardware in your studio with MIDI clock and MTC slave

And more

Intel High Definition Audio
Intel has worked with the industry to develop a new specification for integrated audio that is capable of delivering the features and high-end performance of an add-in audio card. Intel High Definition Audio (Intel HD Audio) is capable of playing back more channels at higher quality than previous integrated audio formats. zZounds is an authorized dealer of Rain Computers Inc. products.

86/87/88 full-sized keyboard with 19 x 19 mm key caps, 2.5 mm travel; Microsoft Windows function keys; and palm rest
I/O Ports: 1 - FireWire(IEEE 1394), 1 - Microphone-in, 1 - Line-in, 1 - Headphone-out, 1 - VGA port/Mini D-sub 15-pin for external monitor, 4 - USB 2.0 Ports, 1 - S-Video Out, 1 - Parallel Port, 1 - RJ11 Modem Connector, 1 - RJ45 Ethernet Connector

Lithium Ion, 8-cell, 2400mAh, 65Wh battery pack Approx. 4.5 hours; charging time 2.5 hours (power off), 3.0 hours (power on)

Dimensions: 14.3 x 10.5 x 1.3 inches (W x H x D)

Weight: 6.0 lbs.

1-year limited warranty