Muso, I think your idea has some merit, you could at least see if a system has the basic minimum needs. However Eddie is right in a real world sense. You won’t know until you try to load audio.

The biggest problem, and one I have wrestled with, it since this is a hoppy and not a vocation I always seem to buy on the lower end of things. If you by a faster computer, with a decent amount of ram and a better hard drive it should work.

I have a old tired laptop with 8 gig or ram and a 1 TB drive it does alright till I really load it down. If I add 16 gigs of ram and clone to a SSD drive it would be golden.

Lastly it sometimes is not the computer but the configuration of the said system, and many times to free third party plugins, and cheap sound cards that cause audio to fail.

HP Win 11 12 gig ram, Mac mini Sonoma with 16 gig of ram, BiaB 2025, Realband, Reaper 7, Harrison Mixbus 9 32c , Melodyne 5 editor, Presonus Audiobox 1818VSL, Presonus control app.