I'm looking for a new laptop for professional music productions. The problem is that I have only 600 euro available. I know, of course, that professionalism also has its price: / However, I hope that there's some noname laptop (maybe also PC) that is designed to meet these demands.
Maybe someone of you knows one and can help me there.
This is a bit difficult as I think it also depends on the music you want to make. In any case, I would recommend a sound card. In addition to this a laptop which is equipped with a neat memory and powerful processor. I do not know if you want to store your music directly on the laptop or on an external hard drive, you need either a large memory or an additional external hard drive. The built-in hard drive should be as fast as possible. Also (depends on what you do) is a decent RAM (32 instead of 4 GB) of advantage. The brand is not necessarily the important thing in your laptop, you should just pay attention to the mentioned hardware parts.
The professionalism is more about you than on a device for amount X. It's not like you would even need a laptop or PC to produce music.
However, a more precise description of your project can't hurt. It certainly makes a difference to record the vocals and guitar of a singer-songwriter and to do relatively little in post-production, or to get a hundred and twelve tracks into the calculator, pop every track with VSTs, and then get some software tools computed,
The trend; A fast CPU is helpful; several cores definitely help. A lot of RAM helps a lot and a fast (!) Hard drive, or SSD or a hard drive network also help. In the field of laptops, the internal sound solution probably does not matter - because you would probably use external hardware that meets your own requirements.
A point that does not smell quite interesting for music applications; The computer should not come with the cheapest power adapter. Since this can lead to noise. Also, the device should be as quiet as possible. Sitting in front of a box that sounds like she's about to take off is rather bad for working with sound.
If the computer does not necessarily have to be mobile, you can get a similar configuration with a home-made construction - Many computers on the market are rather simple office products or tailored to gaming.
The main areas that the laptop has to cover are: recording vocals and mixing them.
I use the program FL Studio
