Because TouchDesigner doesn’t work on the Mac OS - I simply have to buy myself a PC (and No, i don’t want to use Bootcamp). I have looked at the ASUS N75SL laptop, but i would like to talk with you guys first. Will this run TouchDesigner without any problems?
Specs:
Intel Core i7 2.2GHz (4-core)
8 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 635M (2 GB DDR3 SDRAM)
17.3" LED (1920 x 1080, Full HD)
What do you think?
Well, that’s my first question. The second one is about the actual performance. I use a Macbook Pro when producing/performing music. Is it possible to somehow connect these two computers (network?) in a live performance so that the PC syncs to the music played on my MBP? I use Ableton as my main DAW.
Maybe it’s possible to connect both computers to a mixing desk?
That PC will run Touch in the future, but it seems like there are a few issues with the newly released 600 series of Geforces that cause it to not work yet. I expect they will be fixed in a future driver release though. In all other respects yes it will run Touch, although I’m not sure what the performance of a 635 is vs. a 560 or 580.
There are many ways to sync the computers together, Ableton Live is one of them.
So i suppose i will have to wait for the drivers (or just buy another laptop). Sounds great that there’s many ways to sync two computers. But in Ableton, how is this possible? some sort of plug-in?
Depends what you want to do. The main thing that extra cores will do will allow you to play more movies at the same time. Similarly, 1GB of memory being fine depends on how much texture operations you plan to do.