[Rwp] considering a new pc for Reaper and other things, please help!

[Chris Belle]

Hi Beth?
Don't know where in the world you are, but there's great company called
discountelectronics.com
they sell refurbished dells and hp's for a fraction of what they were 
new, and still have a 1 year warranty.
You can get i5 and i7 machines for 2 and 3 hundred dollars.
There's a lot more to picking out a good DAW than just how much ram,
but these machines do come with mostly a minimum of 4 gigs and I got 
lucky with the two I bought from them,
they run sonar just fine which means reaper will run, you're biggest issue
with any daw will be high dpc latency, which you can tweak on some 
models, but not on others, ancd it all depends on how much real time 
plug-in stuff you want to do as far as that goes, but  you should be 
able to do general purpose recording,
these are a lot of good off the shelf machine for the money.
And it's mostly windows 7 as well, so that's the sweet spot for third 
party plug development, any ahk or hsc stuff will work best with that os.
Good luck.


On 3/25/2016 7:11 AM, Beth wrote:
> Hi, all.
> It's Beth. I haven't posted here, so I've been bad. I'm considering 
> turning in this rental Asus and getting a new laptop. To buy outright. 
> The thing is I was wondering how much RAM is needed to run Reaper. I 
> am using Windows 10. The cheapest pc models I'm finding have 2 GB of 
> RAM and I'm not able to find 4 GB, which seems to be the minimum 
> requirement to run Reaper. Plus I have to figure Osara has to be part 
> of the picture. I'm going to back up my registry so I can flip it to 
> the new one provided myself and my boyfriend can at least find 
> something. Plus I don't know what models would work with Reaper. Does 
> anyone have any idea? Where would I get such a pc if you have any 
> recommendations? Thanks in advance.
> Beth
>