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Hi all

Aerodrums on its way but am now looking for a laptop to run it on . I don’t have one at present as use iPad.
I’m aware that specs need to be windows 7 onwards and at least intel core 2ghz. How much RAM is recommended and can anyone recommend a decent budget laptop that will suit ?

Thanks

For one data point, I have Lenovo ThinkPad t450s with 8 GB of RAM.

Notes on performance:

I have been happy with this laptop, it runs Aerodrums without issues on AC wall power. I tried once with battery power, and there were frame rate issues at least in Aerodrums' normal graphics mode. I guess some power saving features of the laptop kicked in. Those could maybe be disabled, but I didn't look into that. I didn't experiment with other graphics modes in Aerodrums either, since I didn't need to run on battery.

I haven't tried running other audio software at the same time. I will probably at some point try using Aerodrums as a MIDI source on a DAW, which will put some more strain on the system.

At first I used the internal sound card, which had low enough latency in the Exclusive WASAPI mode (unusable in the Shared WASAPI mode). Now I use Yamaha AG06 as the sound card with ASIO drivers, which might have improved the latency even further, or maybe I'm just imagining.

It depends what you want to do, to play Aerodrums in 2D or in 3D. If it’s the latter you need a decent Gaming PC to run Aerodrums 3D in full resolution besides Aerodrums 2D! If it’s just to play Aerodrums 2D, any laptop should do it.
My first 2 or 3 years I was running Aerodrums (in graphic mode 3) besides Reaper with Addictive drums on a HP laptop from 2010 with 4G RAM and an Intel Celeron P4500@1,87Ghz but with an external USB sound card.

To use Aerodrums in my experience the most important part (for a Windows PC) is an external sound card. Most laptop sound cards aren’t optimized for making music. They come without a proper ASIO driver and for getting ASIO compatibility you need to install a generic wrapper like Asio4all.

My advice would be not to spend to much money in a laptop and to better invest in a good 44,1 kHz compatible USB sound card with optimized ASIO drivers by the manufacturer. Like this you will also have standard Jack and/or XLR connectors if you want to play with other musicians in a studio or live.