I'm sure it's not 10 years future-proof, or even 2 years future proof, but I picked a mini PC to replace my old computer.

There were a couple factors involved in the selection:
  • It had a small form factor. I was getting tired of having a behemoth underneath my desk.
  • It's really quiet, which is good for recording. But during the summer months, the AC is grinding away, which sort of makes that point moot.
  • I chose to go with NVME sticks instead of a hard drive, because I was tired of worrying if the hard drive was about to crash whenever it started making noise.

It's powerful enough to run games - my daughter bought her own after trying out games on mine.

Memory instead of hard drives leads to a very quiet machine, but it's not a cheap way to go. These mini PCs are always coming out with better, faster versions, and they aren't like a desktop computer where you can just swap the CPU out.

If I really cared about GPUs, I'd have probably gotten one which can run an external video card, which would somewhat have future proofed it for me.

The use of NVME instead of hard drives was probably biggest change, because it results in a really quiet machine.

Maybe not what you want, but you might look at some of the upper-end mini-PCs for giggles anyway. I found RobTech's reviews particularly helpful.

-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?