The Right Computer For Dorm Room Recording

The computer is at the heart of nearly all recording these days, and as time goes on this will become more and more true. Most of the big studios use desktops with lots of external hardware and expensive processors, for your purposes and limited space of a dorm room you can do fine with just a notebook. It is important to get the right kind of laptop though.

Nearly all serious recording is done on Macs these days. This doesn't mean that PCs are completely useless for music production, there is some good software available for PC recording but industry standard software is Mac based. ProTools and related applications are all for Mac and they are what the major studios use. You can use them too in your dorm room recording studio with a good laptop.

The Apple MacBook Pro and the larger 17 inch version are powerful and portable recording computers. They will give you the platform to do high quality audio and video work, and with the right software you will be recording near the level of professional studios, all within the space of a dorm room.