Advice need - interface audio for weak CPU

[Jimmy B]

I didn't know that it was your business laptop. Obviously, you can't mess with it. A couple of suggestions:
1. Refurbished business laptops are available for not much money these days from Dell themselves and others and they can make a very decent music computer.
2. There a lots of ways of making good recordings without a low latency system. One way would be to split the guitar output (using a DI box) so that you are playing through a practice amp and the signal is also going to the audio interface. There are lots of good articles on this website, dating form when powerful computers were not obtainable.

[James Perrett]

1. Refurbished business laptops are available for not much money these days from Dell themselves and others and they can make a very decent music computer.

Indeed, the Dell that I use is available from a refurbisher on Ebay for £120 although if I was buying now I would prefer to go for something newer from the same range around the £250-300 mark.

[Jaworrr]

Guys, at the end of the story I end up with new laptop
I created one song using previous one, but it was taff task.
Recording guitar at 10ms overall latency was possible but every other tracks has to be muted. To keep responsivness of Reaper when wiritting drums, bass and mixing the buffor settings goes to 1024 samples.
The laptop then was hot as hell (I figured how to engage 3,5Ghz turbo boost), fan works on max RPM making a lot of noise. Software ocasionally poping and craping and doesn't react for fundamental stop/play function...

So now I get Asus vivobook laptop with Ryzen cpu 6 x 3,3Ghz (4,2 at turbo boost) 24GB a bit faster ram, works at 3200Mhz bus. I keep laptop on Whispering mode, so it's dead quiet, fan is not hearable from sitting position. Also I do windows configuraction for DAW (as same as I do on previous one).
I can do now everything describing above at 64 samples buffor (6ms latency) without any glitches or noise.
I think I can recommend this piece of hardware, especially cpu wchich works just perfect.

[Drew Stephenson]

Glad you got sorted, thanks for the update.