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.

    • @Vinny_93English
      1•4 days ago

      For some things, the i7 works a bit more efficient than the i9, the i9 is a beast but that also makes it bulky. And power hungry.

      32 GB RAM is solid, I wouldn’t go for 16.

      And for the graphics thing, well… If it’s photo/video editing and you don’t plan on using an external display as a default, you might want to consider the 3rd option for a screen. DCI-P3 is much broader than sRGB.

      Edit: oh and I don’t know what the upgradability is on this thing but you might wanna go for the 1TB drive just in case.

      And if I can give you a bit of Windows advice: see if you can chop up that disk in two partitions before you start installing stuff. Keep your Windows partition, the part of the disk where you only keep Windows, at around 120GB. This will cause Windows not to create tens of gigabytes of cache files on the disk, freeing up space for more content. And something I always immediately do is turn hibernate off (powercfg.exe /hibernate off) in order not to get a hiberfile.sys the size of your used RAM.

      • Sips'OPEnglish
        1•4 days ago

        Great tips - appreciate it a lot! The display tip especially as it wont be connected to any extra displays most of the time. The PC also won’t be for any photo/video editing. Strictly making music but also the occasional games here and there - nothing too heavy, but enough to require a discrete card.

        • @Vinny_93English
          2•4 days ago

          sRGB is fine for gaming and your DAW, DCI-P3 is only useful if you want very accurate colours. The DCI-P3 one has higher frame rate, but it’ll have more latency. You could go for the HDR variant, but HDR is mostly bad on laptop screens. Apart from that it uses a lot of battery power.