benniferj Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Hey guys. Looking for a bit of advice. I'm after using a touchscreen laptop for Avo Titan One on Windows, so need an alternative to my Macbook Pro for this use. I've tried VMWare and VirtualBox but neither work that well for me and of course, it's not a touch laptop. I'm weighing up various options but am unsure as to what spec I NEED to run it. Avo suggest Intel i5, 4gb ram, some of the newer i3 options sound quite good though and I'm unsure of compatiblity of AMD A8 etc. Anyone got experience of what Avo needs to run, versus what they say it requires? I don't want to spend a fortune on a new machine when it will exclusively be used for lighting, and one universe at best with say 10 moving fixtures. Ideally HP, and there are some nice options in their range at around the £450 mark, but if I don't need to spend that... I won't. No interest in a Windows machine aside from to run Avo and a few other lighting dongles occasionally too. Either way its a fairly cheap laptop compared to my usual Apple purchases. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timsabre Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 I recently got one of these http://store.hp.com/...pt=ABU&sel=PCNB AMD Quad-Core A8 with full HD (1920x1080) touch display, 8GB ram, 1TB disk for 450quid inc vat I use it for Titan One and it works great, it's a good spec for the price. Only 2 slight drawbacks, it has a bizarre red keyboard which is unusable unless you turn the (red) backlighting on. And the Beats audio does weird compressing things to the audio output, you have to uninstall the audio driver and install a standard windows one to make it work properly. Titan will run on a lot less ram/processor than this, but having the full HD screen res is really worthwhile and I couldn't find a cheaper full HD laptop than this.(although some laptops call 1360x720 full HD, but Titan One is a bit cramped at that resolution) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Columbine24 Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 We run our Titan One on an i5 Asus S400CA touch screen laptop (£359.99). Works well. We were told at the Avo training course that the top specs are only needed for running a show that has all the 512 channels active at the same time. If your show is less complex you'd get away with a lesser processor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart91 Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 We run our Titan One on an i5 Asus S400CA touch screen laptop (£359.99). Works well. We were told at the Avo training course that the top specs are only needed for running a show that has all the 512 channels active at the same time. If your show is less complex you'd get away with a lesser processor. How about Titan Mobile, which can output more than one universe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niclights Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 I would expect an i5 to do 12 universes, given that's what the consoles have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart91 Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 Does the console have a cut-down version of the OS with less "overhead" than a laptop? (Even so, I'll not need anything like 12 universes for a while yet) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niclights Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 It's really not an issue. It screams along on my i5 here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benniferj Posted February 24, 2015 Author Share Posted February 24, 2015 I've ended up with a Lenovo Yoga 2 14" i5, 6gb ram model, touchscreen. It installed and runs great, I haven't used it in anger but the visualiser seems quite happy and the whole interface is smooth and responsive. It's one of those laptops that lets you flip into an inverted mode, giving a great angle to work at. Thanks for your help guys! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyparcans Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 I've ended up with a Lenovo Yoga 2 14" i5, 6gb ram model, touchscreen. It installed and runs great, I haven't used it in anger but the visualiser seems quite happy and the whole interface is smooth and responsive. It's one of those laptops that lets you flip into an inverted mode, giving a great angle to work at. Thanks for your help guys! :)I can second the yoga 2 solution had mine a year used it for titan one and on tour with a titan mobile no issues, great screen res and touch capabilities- all good and if your v cramped for space at mix position the flip "yoga" function is great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 I've ended up with a Lenovo Yoga 2 14" i5, 6gb ram model, touchscreen.Danger! Make sure you check for and kill Lenovo's insane Superfish rootkit certificate(s). Simply uninstalling the c***ware isn't enough on those unfortunately. A full nuke'n'pave is highly recommended. Frankly, after what came out over the last few weeks I couldn't touch Lenovo with a bargepole, which is a shame as their hardware is was generally good. - To be fair, after a couple of weeks of bluster by Lenovo management who clearly had no idea what they were talking about, they've come clean and even claimed that they'll be good in Windows 10.It remains to be seen whether this will be enough to save the business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benniferj Posted March 2, 2015 Author Share Posted March 2, 2015 Pop up ads? Thanks for the heads up - although this machine has only been online to authenticate the One dongle license. It's a show laptop :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sully Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 Pop up ads? Thanks for the heads up - although this machine has only been online to authenticate the One dongle license. It's a show laptop :-) It's a lot more serious than pop-up ads, it makes any connection to any secure https website potentially unsafe as their man-in-the-middle toyware has been pulled apart. You can test if you're vunerable: https://filippo.io/Badfish/ Sully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judge Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 Thank you. I was about to buy a Lenovo laptop for a client. That is a massive invasion of privacy and a huge abuse of customers in general. In a fair world they would have their ass sued and be forced into bankruptcy for such a vile practice. But we all know that will not happen. Too big to fail - we are seeing rather too much of this eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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