I want to use the laptop almost exclusively for small events as a DJ platform for example "Traktor" or "Ableton". As favorable as possible, because I finally put together an expensive computer. It has often happened to me that my last laptop or even all the equipment in the club has come to harm and me constantly needing to replace a high quality laptop is not worth it.
The laptop I'm looking for so only such programs can play clean and of course in the possession of appropriate sockets for DJ controllers, etc. His.
For such tasks, it does any older laptop… Even from XP times. As long as you do not want to go online to do online banking or Amazon shopping, I would take any old one.
There's always the misconception that these things would have to know this and that… But in such simple applications as audio shoveling you should already be sufficient with XP, a memory of 1GB; he does not have to do anything worth mentioning anyway… Only the sockets have.
Actually, he does not need much for the audio. When the effects can then be hacking something again if you're unlucky. It would be important to have a clean latency of the system. If the hardware has problems with each other that is bad. (Or the drivers) I would look that I get one with SSD and SATA disk. So SSD for Windows and programs and SATA as a data disk. It's not that easy, but look.
Take a look around in computer repair shops, which often offer cheap reprocessed devices.
This is unfortunately absolute nonsense.
Of course this is completely nonsense and strangely people always mean that they need big computers to run simple applications on it. Inasmuch as you do no resourchauffordernden things with it… And that is certainly not audio… Then it's no problem even for an 8-year-old device. However, if you then have tens of other software on it, which is started with the same at startup, you should not be surprised. Best still the small program with the white umbrella in the red box AND then the big wonder.
If you "like" a calculator for something, then there's nothing on it except what you need then. That would not be the only computer that does something like that and if your computer is not enough, you should probably deal with the registry and msconfig. Why do you think a WindowsCE is as big as it is and even runs in a small box called Navi?