Best places to buy for a computer that's purely for making music.

I have a $1500 max limit.

You'll probably get the best results if you build it yourself, so you only get what you need. This guide might help. You'll want lots of storage and RAM, plus a sound card to reduce latency.

I hear really good things about the new Razor 'Razorblade' 
its a gaming computer but they have been marketing it for producers also and I know a few people have been raving about it.

I asked moar levi if it is worth the hype and he backed it 100 percent!


not sure about price though!!  I assume its expensive as with most things in the gaming world.

Could you link me? Never heard and a google search returned all razorblades.

He's talking about this: http://www.razerzone.com/store/gaming-systems
they have different models and if you know what you are doing you can take apart most laptops (be careful of course) and upgrade ram and ssds yourself.
It's a PC and probably one of, if not, the best windows based production laptop out there, I would say if you are into Macs a lot of producers use them as well but depends on your operating system preference.
I personally hate laptops with a passion, so I built my computer and sacrificed portability for infinite cpu and ram! Most people are on the go though and laptops are extremely versatile so there is a definite tradeoff.

I am going desktop. I agree with you, I hate laptops.

I'd recommend a macbook pro. I know people say "They're too expensive for the power you actually get" but i think just the overall quality of the parts and the OS in general is unparalleled. Besides, mac has always had a prominent place in music production. I got my macbook pro 13in retina with an upgraded 2.9ghz i5 and upgraded 16gb of RAM for about 1500.

Don't want to start this war here, but imho it's not just bells and whistles with Macs. There is also quite solid history of OS updates that messed up plugin compatibility that sometimes even developers had to step in. Last time with El.Captain. Apple doesn't give a damn about backward compatibility, so your ability to use certain plugins will depend only on their developers being active.
Windows has it's flaws too, but from my experience backward compatibility is stellar. Last year I've autoupdated from win7 to win10 and except two plugins needing re-authorisation everything worked like a charm.

Too lazy to build myself. So that's a non-option. Although I will want space for customization and additions.

Too bad. Pre-made gaming PC's are made for graphics power, meaning the CPU is on the same priority level as GPU. For music production, I'd spend a bit less on GPU and bit more on CPU as that's where all your rendering is happening. Having said that ... I'm running 2.5GHz quad core laptop CPU and it's more than enough.

Quote from: FarleyCZ on January 26, 2016, 08:12:03 am

Quote from: Laced on January 26, 2016, 06:41:58 am

I'd recommend a macbook pro. I know people say "They're too expensive for the power you actually get" but i think just the overall quality of the parts and the OS in general is unparalleled. Besides, mac has always had a prominent place in music production. I got my macbook pro 13in retina with an upgraded 2.9ghz i5 and upgraded 16gb of RAM for about 1500.

Don't want to start this war here, but imho it's not just bells and whistles with Macs. There is also quite solid history of OS updates that messed up plugin compatibility that sometimes even developers had to step in. Last time with El.Captain. Apple doesn't give a damn about backward compatibility, so your ability to use certain plugins will depend only on their developers being active.
Windows has it's flaws too, but from my experience backward compatibility is stellar. Last year I've autoupdated from win7 to win10 and except two plugins needing re-authorisation everything worked like a charm.

Quote from: Xan on January 25, 2016, 05:47:34 pm

Too lazy to build myself. So that's a non-option. Although I will want space for customization and additions.

Too bad. Pre-made gaming PC's are made for graphics power, meaning the CPU is on the same priority level as GPU. For music production, I'd spend a bit less on GPU and bit more on CPU as that's where all your rendering is happening. Having said that ... I'm running 2.5GHz quad core laptop CPU and it's more than enough.

I wouldn't want to go with a gaming pc company if possible.
I would spend a lot on my cpu, ssd and ram. gpu will be secondary.

You should really just pick your parts and pay someone to put it together if ur too lazy. U wont find any great computers out there unless u pay a shitton for a "gaming" pc. Just saying, you would save hundreds of dollars.

You could probably get a great pc for producing for like 800 dollars which is almost half the price you are willing to pay.