Paul H

I did last year when they had similar offers. No issues.

Get as much RAM as you can. i7 processor too. Personally I use the MS Surface Book or sometimes my wife's MS Surface Pro. Not had any issues. I didn't consider HDD size to be too important as files are saved on the NAS or in "the cloud".

For the older CW versions Sonar I used Roland/Edirol interfaces and they were solid performers. Nowadays I use M-Audio. For recording I use the M-Track 2x2M. For pure mixing & monitoring, when no recording is required, I use the M-Audio SuperDAC II. I also have the M-Audio MicroDAC 24/192 as it's nice & portable. All have dedicated ASIO drivers and are rock solid with CW, and various other DAWs such as Ableton or ProTools.

Check all your Audio Outputs are ticked in the Preferences.

I thimk it only matters when you've not got a lot of RAM installed. Having said that... in every version of CW/Sonar I've had, I've never changed it from whatever the default is .