Synergy Portman – Music Laptop beyond stress

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synergy portman music laptopStress.. what a bummer! ..but if life itself doesn’t deliver enough, we as music producers, recordists and musicians do not want it in our computer CPU’s thank you very much. I’ve just had a nosey at the new DV Synergy mobile wonder, the Portman. Bench tested (and boy do these guys know clutter!) with an unforgiving and large amount of plug-in overdose, the Portman has just delivered some astounding results in a heavy Pro Tools burn.

During this Pro Tools ‘stress test’, the Synergy power-house laptop swallowed:

  • 8 x Stereo Xpand instruments:
  • 128 x various RTAS plug-ins including reverbs, delays, compressors and pitch shifters.
  • Elastic audio over stretched to kick in on a stereo vocal track
  • 16 x audio tracks sliced and shuffled to test the play-heads and drive access

synergy portman stress testThis obviously is more than enough to represent the requirements of even the most demanding sessions and during test the Portman’s CPU ran at just over 50% without breaking a binary  sweat. Spec wise, it’s driven by a 2.4Ghz intel core 2 duo processor, comes standard with 4GB of RAM, Nvidea geforce G105M w.512RAM and a gloriously fast SSD hard drive.

The Synergy boys inform me this should hit the shelves by 1st October, around the £899 mark. At that price point and with such a massive power capability, this is one serious alternative to those rather pricey Mac Book Pro’s!

Now then, if I personally wasn’t actually an aforementioned Mac user, I’d help the lads sort their cluttered desks a wee bit and liberate this beast to a more comfortable (and tidy) home.. :-0

About Paul Dakeyne

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Paul Dakeyne is a DJ/Producer who has dedicated the past two decades of his life to dance music production and DJ'ing. For six years, he toured globally for the world famous Ministry of Sound and has played DJ sets for the likes of U2 and for the legendary, Kraftwerk, Although remixing around 250 records in his career, as an artist in his own right, Paul landed one of dance music's seminal crossover moments with his "18 Strings' monster hit by Tinman - scoring a UK top ten in 1994. He also co-wrote and produced the music for BBC's Watchdog and Crimewatch when they were both revamped in 2001 and '06 respectively. His other career highlights have included an A&R stint for Mercury Records, lecturing in 'DJ culture and music technology' and creating mash-up mixes for Radio 1's, Chris Moyles. Paul joined the DV group in 2003 leading to his role as blog and feature author here at the DV Mag.

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One Response to “Synergy Portman – Music Laptop beyond stress”

  1. Shirish says:
    April 29, 2010 at 10:37

    i want few products details of the synergy audio production laptos.
    can u send me?

    shirish.

      

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