Silent Laptop

[KirbyTech]

I am looking for a silent laptop to use on set when recording. I need it to be able to offload footage from SD/SSD , would be great to be able to have dual drives (ie one where the optical bay would be) so I can change out HDDs partway through the day. The internal specs are not super important as I would like the keep the price down as low as possible so I won't be listing a budget just try to stay really low. I am in Canada so only products I can buy here as import taxes are insanely high. 

[Sonefiler]

you want a really big laptop then, those are usually the quietest.

[TheMastr13]

I, personally, would go for something like a Macbook Air:

 

http://www.apple.com/macbook-air/

 

They're really portable and VERY quiet under small-medium workloads.

 

For storage the Air lacks, but with thunderbolt expansion is easy and speeds are fast. I would look at 1-2 thunderbolt portable hard drives like this:

 

http://store.apple.com/us/product/HFCP2ZM/A/wd-4tb-my-passport-pro-thunderbolt-dual-drive-raid-storage?fnode=5f&fs=f%3Dportable_hard_drives-thunderbolt-thunderbolt2%26fh%3D3783%252B401f%252B309a%252B2a91

 

Hope this helps.

[KirbyTech]

I, personally, would go for something like a Macbook Air:

 

http://www.apple.com/macbook-air/

 

They're really portable and VERY quiet under small-medium workloads.

 

For storage the Air lacks, but with thunderbolt expansion is easy and speeds are fast. I would look at 1-2 thunderbolt portable hard drives like this:

 

http://store.apple.com/us/product/HFCP2ZM/A/wd-4tb-my-passport-pro-thunderbolt-dual-drive-raid-storage?fnode=5f&fs=f%3Dportable_hard_drives-thunderbolt-thunderbolt2%26fh%3D3783%252B401f%252B309a%252B2a91

 

Hope this helps.

I don't think I want to go with a Mac because of the cost. I the cost for those drives are also way too much to be reasonable.