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Here's a good hint: At the Live forum there is the standing thread "LIVE 8 PERFORMANCE TEST - Results Here". https://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=111880&start=0&hilit=best+laptop+for+live All these questions are answered there and people post the spec's of their boxes. Per On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 11:10 AM, mark francombe > <markfrancombe@gmail.com> wrote: >> I guerss Im talking memory AND CPU? > > > Why needing to know the "Minimum Spec PC"? Are you planning to by a > ten year old lappy? :-)) Just make sure its graphic memory isn't > shared with the system and any new dirt cheap win-lappy will work > great with live. The latest Live version (upgrade last week) supports > running the system at 64 bit and the good thing with that is that more > than 4 GB RAM can be used. So you might as well look for a cheap > corporate deal on a laptop that ships with 8 or more GB RAM. > > I'm receiving mails every week from Dell and everyone else that offers > me a cheap deal through my company... must be the same in Norway. Look > for the deals labeld "powerful media laptop", "presentation media > workhorse" or similar, but try to avoid deals on laptops that come > with pre installed stuff that is targeting "home media center" users. > Oh, and Vista is a no-no ;-)) > >> When it says i3 or i5 or i7... is i3 good enough? > > i7 does better in tests with typical music applications. > > Greetings from Sweden > > Per Boysen > www.perboysen.com > http://www.youtube.com/perboysen