What kind of recording will you be doing? Rock bands? EDM? Soundtracks with a bunch of orchestral sample libraries? Makes a huge difference as to how much you’ll be stressing the computer. It was counterintuitive to me when I was starting out, but just recording audio is one of the least demanding. It’s the processing, especially synths and sample libraries, that really hammer the computer.
What kind of recording will you be doing? Rock bands? EDM? Soundtracks with a bunch of orchestral sample libraries? Makes a huge difference as to how much you’ll be stressing the computer. It was counterintuitive to me when I was starting out, but just recording audio is one of the least demanding. It’s the processing, especially synths and sample libraries, that really hammer the computer.