The bottom line is that NO laptop has a decent audio system. As that is the way it is.... You have to look at what you will do about that.
What external audio cards/USB/other units does Acid support?
It's unlikely a nice laptop with 512M RAM and any current CPU will strain under Acid, but the audio on a laptop is just a terrible thing.
Bob
im looking for a pc notebook with a whole lotta ram that would be up to the challenge of audio production...i plan on usuing ACID 4.0 and Reason and maybe cubase....i would have gone with a g4 laptop but ACID doesnt run on the mac

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