

I wanted to keep the keys covered, but accessible in case I needed to get to them later. How to turn on the laptop without opening the lid. Getting the laptop to always boot directly into an external monitor.Ģ. All of the connections were easily available! I didn't think about this until I started hooking things up.ġ. Suddenly I was able to open up a 18" x 24" space on the desk!Ĥ. Small footprint - I mounted the laptop up on it's side behind some other stuff. I had to turn it off if I wanted to record.ģ. Plus I had problems getting to my home network with XP.Ģ. For some reason I couldn't get the old PC to run Win 7. Win 7 - I could now have Win 7 in the studio. Switching over to this laptop had several advantages:ġ. A friend had an Asus laptop (Pentinum dual core, 4 GB RAM) with a missing screen that was much more powerful than the single core Althlon (3 GB RAM) that I had been using. The PC in my home recording studio was really in need of upgrading and I didn't want to spend much money to do it. This is one of those easy mods that just presented itself.
