My old desktop pc is on its last legs. It's an xp, 2gb ram, pentium d processor.. it's probably a decade old and it wasn't too of the range even then. I'm toying with getting a laptop instead of another desktop but I'm so out of touch that I've no idea what the specs are all about. There seems to be alot around 200-300 quid mark, with 8gb ram and a tetrabyte hdd. Would something around this price range give me details decent performance? Or does windows10 take up alot if the resources?
Should say, I'd be using reaper and I literally would be recording half a dozen tracks at most... All for just a bit of fun, not going to be releasing my solo album anytime soon.
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Should say, I'd be using reaper and I literally would be recording half a dozen tracks at most... All for just a bit of fun, not going to be releasing my solo album anytime soon.
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Worth noting that a lot of laptops only come with a couple of USB ports these days, which isn't sufficient really. You'll want one with at least one USB 2.0 port (some audio interfaces don't like USB 3.0) and at least one USB 3.0 port (for external storage). Failing that, use the USB 2.0 port for the interface and a USB 3.0 hub for everything else.
I got my Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro from Sporky for £400 a year or two ago, with its bonkers 13.3" 3200x1800 touchscreen, 128GB SSD, 8GB RAM and a 2.1GHz i7 CPU. It runs Reaper (under Linux) absolutely brilliantly - heading into the studio with it later this week to record drums.
But, I work for Tesco and I occasionally get 20% discount so ideally I'd be getting g it from there but that's obviously on the assumption it'll do.
How about something like this as an example?
https://www.tesco.com/direct/acer-aspire-a315-21-3-156-amd-a4-8gb-ram-1tb-hdd-laptop-black/173-2658.prd?skuId=173-2658
All the other things look good... But I don't know about the processor
I've always considered storage in laptops to be "whatever I'm working on at the moment". My laptop has a 256GB SSD, which means not-too-many audio/video projects. I store everything on an external drive, and copy the stuff I want to work on at any given time to the SSD as and when I need it. That means a wait of up to 10 minutes at the beginning of the day - during which I'm making coffee - and at the end, but minimal frustration while I'm actually working.
Definitely more to think about!
It'll be reaper, and no big sessions...
Intel i5 3470 3.6ghz turbo
16g ram
64gb ssd boot drive
500gb HD drive
USB 3
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again as you are on a budget small SSD to speed up the work in hand bigger hard drive for archive.
min 8gb mem
again if you are looking to do just a few track a dual core will probably do but a good old quad core is much better if you are going to use a few plugin for reverb virtual instruments etc.