Rain Recording Livebook L7 Laptop Audio Computer
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Core 2 Duo power on the road.
Overview
Designed for Audio
Meet LiveBook, the award winning mobile audio workstation by Rain Recording. Designed as a powerful and stable platform for your industry-standard digital audio software and hardware, LiveBook lets you pile on the tracks, plug-ins and virtual instruments like a desktop computer. Turn on LiveBook and listen to the beautiful sound of silence as the balanced component architecture and advanced cooling system give you high-end performance without all the excess heat and noise.
Plug & Play
Boasting two separate FireWire chipsets for maximum compatibility, a 200GB high-performance hard drive and 4GB of low-latency RAM, LiveBook is perfectly engineered to handle the stress of audio production without overheating or audio drop-outs. Turn it on and you're ready to record, edit, mix and burn with your industry standard audio software and interface. Experience the ultimate in mobile audio workstation design.
Features
Music Computer of the Year - Future Music Magazine
Tested with industry standard audio software and hardware
Discreet graphics for optimum performance
2.5GHz Dual Core mobile processor by Intel
Balanced component architecture engineered powerful, stable and reliable performance
Meet LiveBook, the award winning mobile audio workstation by Rain Recording. Designed as a powerful and stable platform for your industry-standard digital audio software and hardware, LiveBook lets you pile on the tracks, plug-ins and virtual instruments like a desktop computer. Turn on LiveBook and listen to the beautiful sound of silence as the balanced component architecture and advanced cooling system give you high-end performance without all the excess heat and noise.
Plug & Play
Boasting two separate FireWire chipsets for maximum compatibility, a 200GB high-performance hard drive and 4GB of low-latency RAM, LiveBook is perfectly engineered to handle the stress of audio production without overheating or audio drop-outs. Turn it on and you're ready to record, edit, mix and burn with your industry standard audio software and interface. Experience the ultimate in mobile audio workstation design.
Features
Music Computer of the Year - Future Music Magazine
Tested with industry standard audio software and hardware
Discreet graphics for optimum performance
2.5GHz Dual Core mobile processor by Intel
Balanced component architecture engineered powerful, stable and reliable performance
Specs
Hardware
CPU: 2.5GHz Intel "Penryn" Core 2 Duo (T9300)
Hard Drive: 200GB SATA 300 7200RPM (16MB Cache)
RAM: 4GB DDR2 (Dual Channel - Matched Pair)
Display: 15.4" WXGA+ Widescreen (1280x800)
Graphics: NIVIDIA Goforce 8600M GS (256MB)
USB: 4 x USB 2.0 Ports
FireWire: 2 x 6-pin on PCI Express Card (TI Chipset), 1 x 4-pin onboard
PCIe: PCI Express Notebook Card Slot
Optical Drive: Dual Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Combo Drive
WiFi : Integrated mobile Intel 802.11
LAN: 10/100/1000 Ethernet
Modem: 56k V.90/V.92 Modem RJ-11
Webcam: 2 megapixel
Media Card: 7 in 1 Card Reader
Battery: 6 cell Li-Ion battery
Audio: Intel HD Audio, Built-in Stereo Speakers and Microphone
Video Out: 1 x VGA Port for external display, 1 x s-video out
Input Devices: Touchpad, 88 key keyboard
Bluetooth: Optional
Dimensions: 14." x 10.1" x 1.1"~1.5" (WxDxH)
Weight: 6.1 lbs. w/ 6 cel battery
Software Included
Microsoft Windows XP Pro (tuned by Rain for audio production)
Support
RainCare Support
Three Year Limited Hardware Warranty
CPU: 2.5GHz Intel "Penryn" Core 2 Duo (T9300)
Hard Drive: 200GB SATA 300 7200RPM (16MB Cache)
RAM: 4GB DDR2 (Dual Channel - Matched Pair)
Display: 15.4" WXGA+ Widescreen (1280x800)
Graphics: NIVIDIA Goforce 8600M GS (256MB)
USB: 4 x USB 2.0 Ports
FireWire: 2 x 6-pin on PCI Express Card (TI Chipset), 1 x 4-pin onboard
PCIe: PCI Express Notebook Card Slot
Optical Drive: Dual Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Combo Drive
WiFi : Integrated mobile Intel 802.11
LAN: 10/100/1000 Ethernet
Modem: 56k V.90/V.92 Modem RJ-11
Webcam: 2 megapixel
Media Card: 7 in 1 Card Reader
Battery: 6 cell Li-Ion battery
Audio: Intel HD Audio, Built-in Stereo Speakers and Microphone
Video Out: 1 x VGA Port for external display, 1 x s-video out
Input Devices: Touchpad, 88 key keyboard
Bluetooth: Optional
Dimensions: 14." x 10.1" x 1.1"~1.5" (WxDxH)
Weight: 6.1 lbs. w/ 6 cel battery
Software Included
Microsoft Windows XP Pro (tuned by Rain for audio production)
Support
RainCare Support
Three Year Limited Hardware Warranty
Reviews
Reviewers gave this product an overall rating of 0.5 out of 5 stars.
(14 ratings)
Submitted May 21, 2008 by a customer from gmail.com
"Lacking ANY useful features for musicians, like built-in high quality audio I/O, phantom power, or maybe something neat like fad"
humm, yeah, what more to say...
Sound
its a sham... its just a regular laptop computer... there's not even a high quality music I/O built in, let alone faders or controllers.
I could use any number of notebooks to achieve the exact same thing, and I'd have to shell out less for most of them, leaving me more money to buy the actual musician's goodies you need to make this do anything :P
I'm flabbergasted at this brazen attempt at selling us the emperor's new clothes...
Features
there are no music specific features, unless you buy other stuff, which will then make for extra little boxes and extra power cables.
Make a laptop with some audio I/O and built in faders, phantom power for our microphones, so we can actually carry less crap around...
Why would I buy an ugly no-name product that has nothing over any Apple, Sony or HP notebook???
Ease of Use
Ease of use... for musicians: none for the same reasons stated above.
Quality
just a middle of the road no-name OEM notebook. You can probably find the exact same thing in 30 different adds in computer shopper from companies like Sager etc.
Lame...
Value
where IS the special value to a musician? I can sell you some snake oil to make your fingers play faster too.
Manufacturer Support
no idea, didn't use
The Wow Factor
a bit lacking in the design department for any "I want it" factor... maybe if it came with a Luis Vuitton handbag for my girlfriend :P
Musical Background:
Recording Engineer
Musical Style:
various / world music
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