![]() Whether or not you have 1 or 2 disk drives, shoot for either an HDD spinning at 7,200 rpm, or go for a solid-state drive (SSD), as their seek times are much zippier, though the data throughput is still limited to the SATA III protocol. I could have upgraded my Dell to 32 GB, but have not found memory to be a bottleneck, nor did I on prior laptops running with 16 GB.įor hard drives - ideally, your laptop would have support for 2 disk drives - one as a boot drive, and the other for your sample libraries, though this isn't essential, it IS VERY helpful to have 2 drives. You also will want a minimum of 8 GB, with 16 GB being a much better option. I have had laptops with i5 Intel CPU's work just fine, as well as some with AMD CPU's (don't recall the CPU model, but it was on par with the i5 Intel CPU), so something with that level of CPU or better, will work. ![]() Just thought I would indicate something from the upper end, for reference. Altogether, it ran about $3200 - you do NOT need something that over the top, to successfully run Cakewalk on a laptop. I also swapped out the original 1 TB HDD, and put in a 2 TB SSD. ![]() It was $1,999 prior to my upgrades to it, which included swapping out the original M.2 SATA III drive, and replacing it with a 2 TB M.2 2280 NVME PCIe drive, which transmits data ridiculously fast. ![]() It has an Intel CPU, 16 GB, and Thunderbolt 3 support and port on its back panel. My current laptop is way overkill - Dell Alienware 17 R5, with a 17" screen, M.2 SATA III boot drive, and a 1 TB HDD data drive.
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