Good laptop for music production?

[Mankindexplained]

Today I am working with a old Macbook Pro, it works like a charm most of the times, but its a well known fact now, its getting old.
A new processor could be necessary I think. Familiar with the mac OS system (of course).
I have searched for different laptops. has review charts specific for music production laptops.
Asus Zenbook and Dell XPS seems to be two other alternatives. Anyone here who has faced similar dilemma recently and can give some advise on other laptops then Mac??
Cheers guys
/ Brian

 

[Fidach Lad]

The prevailing argument seems to be get an inexpensive PC (not a Mac) with a Celeron processor and then kill all of the functions and processes not needed for "streaming" music from an external HD or the net. Some music software seems to work better on this kind of software. (Hunt around on the computer audio forum on AA; it's all there). I find what's written about the cleaning up step to be quite daunting, but I will probably do this when my MacBook Pro gives up the Ghost.

 

[Kal Rubinson]

The prevailing argument seems to be get an inexpensive PC (not a Mac) with a Celeron processor and then kill all of the functions and processes not needed for "streaming" music from an external HD or the net.

That will do unless you will need 2x/4xDSD, multichannel and/or DSP.

 

[Mankindexplained]

Thank you for the advise!