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

[Beth]

I live in Denver, and we have a real awesome store called Action 
Computers, and yes, it sells refurbished ones, but I wish I had the 
wherewithal to get a brand new one that could be a two in one. 
Eventually, we're going to add a desktop to that setup. The desktop will 
have a copy of Reaper along with all the Midi stuff, which will be 
awesome. I do want to do some long range sound productions. I'm 
considering a sound production thing in my future, but right now, it's 
just been crazy with my boyfriend having shown up at my door, so we have 
to arrange his check and then, well, we settled into a place together 
and when all that is done, we plan to put flyers out there and learn 
Reaper and all. But yes, Denver has a couple of good pc stores, but 
yeah, I like Discount Electronics and we'll see what it offers.

Beth Taurasi
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On 3/25/2016 6:40 AM, Chris Belle wrote:
> 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
>>
>
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