who runs reaper on old laptop or computer?

outkastaliens · Messages: 3,473 Registration: 02.26.2001

I'm looking to purchase a laptop for portability purposes, to take with me on the road. I don't have much money and was wondering what kind of performance to expect with this? Someones selling it for 45 bucks

darkhart · Messages: 149 Registration: 12.05.2003

Well, I don't know if this helps, but I've been experimenting with REALLY low powered rigs lately. Here's the current winner of my "Lower the Bar" contest. Reaper V4.02 running on a 495mhz AMD Duron laptop with 256m ram and a 5g hard drive, running xp home SP1. It's running a multitrack project with 11 24bit 48k wavs glitch-free, with an instance of ReaEQ and ReaComp actively working on every track. That's with no Reaper tweaks. Fresh install. Straight out of the box.

///M3N · Messages: 648 Registration: 06.03.2003

old presario

nicom3 · Messages: 823 Registration: 02.28.2002

I am using Reaper on a ten-year-old Compaq Presario (AMD Sempron processor) laptop running windows XP SP3, but I have a big hard drive in it. I run my M-Audio FastTrack into it by USB, which gives me mic and guitar. I run up against performance limits every day, but that reminds me to keep things simpler and focus on the core elements. Doing basic recording, and doing MIDI composition, I have no problems at all, as long as I don't choose fat VSTs.

bmwe30is · Messages: 57 Registration: 09.03.2001

I use an old Lenovo T61p for remote work. It's rock solid with R4. Win7 7200 rpm drive RME Babyface

ETA fro · Messages: 162 Registration: 12.08.2003

Using an 11 yar old HP ZV5000, with Windows 8 and Yamaha n12. So far looks great..:-)

RayDuck · Messages: 291 Registration: 05.10.2001

I recently earned the necropost award.. now I gratefully pass the baton

phae1017 · Messages: 497 Registration: 03.24.2002

Few moments ago i installed Reaper on my friends old netbook, i didn't look at the specs, but then we try to record a simple 4 tracks recording session with it's built-in mic. Did some basic mixing with stock plugs... Everything works fine as i remember.

DuckMuck · Messages: 52 Registration: 03.16.2001

Old Computers Still Work

AdOb0y · Messages: 43 Registration: 04.26.2003

I use an old Hewlett Packard Compaq dc5800 Core2Duo circa 2008 and it works just fine with old hard drives. But to increase it's performance, I put in a new hard drive with a decent cache made in 2013. I think it helps. The system has 4GB of RAM, and I might add more in a few months. But my OS is only 32-bit so maybe not.