The specs on the Rain Recording LiveBook Diablo are so powerful for a notebook that it could be perceived as a desktop by numbers alone. It's available with a 2.93 GHz Core 2 Extreme processor and up to 3 GB of RAM all in a notebook.

It takes a quad-fan cooling system to keep the aptly named LiveBook Diablo from distortion and audio-engine seizure. This results in cool, qiet operation to boost the amount of tracks, plug-ins, and virtual instruments you can successfully use at once to make your mobile audio station that much more convenient than a desktop.

The Diablo also gives you a lot of input options for whatever audio interface you're using. It supports external drives, USB 2.0, eSATA, and has two separate FireWire chipsets. The 7200RPM eSATA has a 32MB buffer, making the Diablo a great computer for direct to drive recording, and its compatible with pretty much everything. Rain Recording made sure of that by testing the LiveBook Diablo with virtually every piece of audio hardware or software they could imagine.

Just don't tell your desktop about it, or you might come home one day to find that it shut itself down next to a suicide word document.