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Old 10-30-2011, 11:41 PM   #1
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Default who runs reaper on old laptop or computer?

I'm looking to purchase a laptop for portability purposes, to take with me on the road. I don't have much money and was wondering what kind of performance to expect with this?

http://support.lenovo.com/en_CY/deta...ID=MIGR-4JRMN8

Someones selling it for 45 bucks
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Old 10-31-2011, 12:41 AM   #2
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Well, I don't know if this helps, but I've been experimenting with REALLY low powered rigs lately. Here's the current winner of my "Lower the Bar" contest.


Reaper V4.02 running on a 495mhz AMD Duron laptop with 256m ram and a 5g hard drive, running xp home SP1.

It's running a multitrack project with 11 24bit 48k wavs glitch-free, with an instance of ReaEQ and ReaComp actively working on every track.

That's with no Reaper tweaks. Fresh install. Straight out of the box.
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Old 10-31-2011, 01:32 PM   #3
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Default old presario

I am using Reaper on a ten-year-old Compaq Presario (AMD Sempron processor) laptop running windows XP SP3, but I have a big hard drive in it. I run my M-Audio FastTrack into it by USB, which gives me mic and guitar. I run up against performance limits every day, but that reminds me to keep things simpler and focus on the core elements. Doing basic recording, and doing MIDI composition, I have no problems at all, as long as I don't choose fat VSTs.
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Old 10-31-2011, 01:52 PM   #4
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I use an old Lenovo T61p for remote work. It's rock solid with R4.

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Old 09-09-2014, 01:52 PM   #5
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Using an 11 yar old HP ZV5000, with Windows 8 and Yamaha n12. So far looks great..:-)
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Old 09-09-2014, 04:20 PM   #7
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Few moments ago i installed Reaper on my friends old netbook, i didn't look at the specs, but then we try to record a simple 4 tracks recording session with it's built-in mic. Did some basic mixing with stock plugs... Everything works fine as i remember.
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Old 09-09-2014, 11:19 PM   #8
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Old 09-10-2014, 05:15 PM   #9
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I use an old Hewlett Packard Compaq dc5800 Core2Duo circa 2008 and it works just fine with old hard drives. But to increase it's performance, I put in a new hard drive with a decent cache made in 2013. I think it helps. The system has 4GB of RAM, and I might add more in a few months. But my OS is only 32-bit so maybe not.
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