Originally Posted By: eddie1261
I have Dell laptops but I do not use them for my music. My downstairs computer that I use for scratchpad work on new song ideas is just an i3 with 16 GB of RAM. Upstairs in the main studio room that one is an i7 with 64 GB or RAM. That one also has Pro Tools on it and I needed the horsepower for that. I rarely use Pro Tools anymore but I have the computer for it if I want to.

If you go laptop, at LEAST an i5 and as much RAM as the motherboard will support. Are you going to dedicate the laptop to music? Will it travel to gigs? If not, and it doesn't need to be portable, then why a laptop?

Like I just bought a new i5 with 32 GB of RAM to dedicate to video steaming. Note. Music and video computers are both dedicated computers. As cheap as computers are now it's very doable to have dedicated computers for dedicated tasks.





Thanks Eddie to an all that replied with great ideas!!

I like the idea of a dedicated computer. I wasn't sure about the i5 though. Isn't that an old slow one?

THANKS!!