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Laptop recommendations for Music Production? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/pcmasterrace

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Hi there, am looking for a new and powerful laptop that can handle music production quite well, but am not sure what to get. So far I've understood that its important for this laptop to have:

32GB RAM (DDR5 preferably)
Top-notch processor
Good graphic card
at least 1TB of SSD Storage, planning on buying external ssd later.

Anyone have any good recommendations for this? The budget is around 2,250 USD / 2,137 EUR.

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[–] nnullzz 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I get that this is the pcmasterrace community, but I would highly suggestions considering a MacBook Pro for any kind of media production. You can find refurbished ones with warranty within your budget. It’ll handle any track out and plugins you throw at it like nothing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

While true, and it is great hardware, but... MacBook is just completely off the table. For numerous reasons but won't go onto that rant here.

[–] junderwood 2 points 1 week ago

Maybe we can keep all the 'whubout macs' comments contained as replies to this comment 😆

I've used a little M1 macbook air since they came out for music production stuff and they're just so unreasonably good. That and Reaper will get you very very far. Audio stuff isn't such a heavy lift that you need crazy hardware like gaming or other graphic intensive workloads. Mine is finally starting to show its age when really piling up the more modern VSTs, so I'll probably get an M4 air when they come out.

I use a UA Apollo X6 as an interface, but I'd probably go for one of the more capable MOTU ones if I got another one. The MOTU M2 is a great little interface that I use on both my mac and PC as well, and I'd highly recommend it.