Recently I was looking to upgrade my laptop for music payback. I wanted as much ram and storage as possible using a solid state drive. Too many of the laptops I looked at that were set up for music playback were ridiculously expensive. Fortunately, I was able to find a great unit at what I feel was a reasonable price on Ebay. It was an Asus G750JW-DB71 that had 32GB of RAM , 1TB EVO Samsung solid state drive,I7 Pentium chip, blue ray with Windows 8 software. It cost me $2,314 with an additional $11.48 for delivery. The company selling them is called Computer Upgrade King and they do the upgrades and give you a 3 year warranty on their work. I installed J. River 19 to use as the GUI and J. Play for music playback and it works and sounds great! Yes, this laptop was really designed for gamers but it is hard to beat the price to performance ratio as a music server.
Chose Lenovo Q190 and swapped the HDD with Kingston 250G SSD. I also have the back-up 2TB external drive to either archive music or retrieve back to SSD. My next upgrade is to place it into rigit aluminium heatsink chassis and get rid of processor fan that's not even heard much.
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