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

[Chris Belle]

I guess I should have said this company is in Texas but they deliver all 
over the US, don't know about internationally, but maybe this will help you.


On 3/25/2016 7:40 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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