Hmmm.
Having used an hp unit of my aunts, and having all their tools tied to the support hub has meant that I have found 99.9% of the software installed on there with a few acceptions quite good for what it is.
I am after a twin drive model.
Hp seem to have amd and intel chips, graphics cards and the like.
Sounds wize quite good bar updating to latest sound drivers which caused all sound to sound squishy, if you can get the 2.7 or 2.82 broken generic realtech drivers and don't mind a little ducking then sounds even with enhancements sounds quite good.
People have mentioned that dells have wavemax which is not really that good of an idea.
They don't have my configurations in any case.
As for lenovo, the only one that looks good enough for me is the thinkpad edge 580, sadly its an intel duelcore i7, but it can take upto 32gb of ram, 2 drives, and an amd video card.
I can buy lesser models but then I get one drive less and to be honest the next powered unit I have especially since its got win10 is going to have a duel drive model.
I am not sure about lenovo but hp have hardware vertualisation and I really will want to run xp and win7 off that maybe linux, one after another depending on speed who knows.
As for lenovo, they are ibm the origional makers of pcs.
With toshiba seemingly to while they still exist here in new zealand only producing 7th and 6th generation single drive units and not many models to choose from I will have to get out of that.
Sadly you can't seem to get a vanilla soundcard in your system.
I don't mind effects in my soundcard but effects are no good for speech at all.
Even on my gaming cards speech sucks in it but everything else is really cool.
Sadly you can't just buy an unlocked realtech or other generic card without anything on it.
I have plenty of externals both an old sb play v1 and an andriea electronics 3d recording headset package from amazon which does have another external no effects card but its just that, another card, another port, which I have enough of but not really that portable as such.
As for the other suggestions.
I think that due to costs and such, I will be staying in my country where buying is concerned.
Lets see, laptop pluss shipping and gst because there will be, pluss well due to the new laws the expensive cost of shipping the battery not to mention if there is no support here as such or the model is not supported here means I am going to have a hell of a time trying to handle an overseas unit unless they have an agent here.
What is getting me to think about lenovo though is the fact their accessibility page states that accessible documentation exists on request and that they will help with accessibility out the box and all seem to have descriptions.
There are people saying kill all the bloat but I would need to know what it all did and what use it had before killing it.
One thing I will not be doing is probably killing the cyberlink software and the like off the units unless I need to.
I had this on my old asus board desktop workstation and it just didn't work with 10, but it managed to take down all cd drives, and lets just say I was not happy.
Eventually I went without it simply because I couldn't get it working.
If that software is part of the cd drive I may have to leave it alone.
If there was a way to get a unit where I threw in an amd unit, maybe a card, networks, the ports I am used to etc that would be fine.
Ofcause the single microphone headphone thing is not a big concern as I have devices and ports.
A lot of newer systems use usbc.
I use usb 2.0 3.0 devices mainly.
I can use 3.1 devices but not usbc devices.
I am still not sure what I will go for.
Lenovo have customised units, my plan was a thinkpad maybe but the hp units I have tried seem ok to though configuration of the keyboard is a bit weird.
I do use an asus strix pro tactic blue cherry organic board for my gaming and desktop typing and find it usefull and easy to handle things so I don't need to worry about an actual laptop board for most of my life.
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