Is my laptop adequate

[Angelo DiBraccio]

Hi

I have a desktop computer by StudioCat as my main DAW.

I want to use my cheap  laptop  to track vocals and product/arrange sketches with light soft synths/ Kontakt w light sounds while traveling.

Is this laptop adequate or should I look for laptop with a more powerful CPU?

• Dell Inspiron 15 3567

• i3 7100U  2.4 GHZ

• 16 GB ram.

• SSD 500gb.

• Focusrite Scarlett 2i 4

• Sennsheiser 421 microphone

• Kontakt, Massive, Zebra, Dune 3, Sylenth 

Thank You

 

 

 

[Gswitz]

yes. 

[Angelo DiBraccio]

Thank You for the response

Yes... My laptop is adequate

or

Yes...  I should look for laptop with a more powerful CPU?

[Hillmy]

It is adequate. The CPU is minimum specs. Everything else is above minimum. As long as you are not doing anything that consumes high CPU cycles, you should be OK.

The only way to be 100% certain is to try ?

Edited August 25, 2020 by Hillmy

[John Vere]

I just used a W7, duo core 2.5 - 4GB of RAM Sony laptop from 2008 to record 16 tracks of audio. I have logged over 30- 50 hours of this without a hick up. 

I also have a W8 i3  Acer POS laptop with 8 GB RAM and it handles just about everything I do. I have about 6- 10  Midi tracks, lots or VST effects and around 10 audio tracks get recorded. We have recorded 80 song to the SSD drive.  It never seems to break a sweat.  More RAM is better but 8 gets a lot done. 

[Angelo DiBraccio]

Thanks to y'all for the comments.

 

Regards

[Michael McBroom]

You've got quite a bit more horsepower than my old laptop, which is handling my workload fine, so i think you should be good.