I'm going to Uni next year and have some money set aside to get a laptop for doing work on but I'd also like to be able to use it with my audio interface for doing reasonable home recordings. I'm using a 6 year old ACER at the moment which is painfully slow and you have to choose between glitching and bad quality. I don't have a fortune to spend, I don't really want to go above £400 if I can help it, happy to get a refurbished one, but what memory/processor etc. spec do I want for recording? I don't know much about these things so in English would be nice!
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When recording with a laptop, the one thing to be careful of (and has a DRASTIC effect of large tracks) is the hard drive read/write speed or RPM. A lot of laptops have slower hard drives to save power and prolong battery life. You need a speed of at least 7200 RPM or you will need an external hard drive as part of your budget,
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The Students Union often has a shop on-site selling stuff.
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Don't most students use MACs anyway? My sister did, and so did her two girls.
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