I'm currently in the market for a new labtop and am really only considering a PC. I'm wondering if anyone can give me an idea of what speed/ram you need to have a non-lagged ableton expereince. Any real life experience would be great.

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How is this not the normal stuff?

How about heading to their website and seeing system specs. That would be the obvious idea, no?

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Originally posted by [NFC]Wave How is this not the normal stuff?

normal stuff = how do you warp tracks

[NFC]wave: there's very often massive differences between min and suggested requirements and what will actually run the program well. I had checked the site, and I was trying to ask people who'd actually used it on a labtop for realistic feedback before I drop my very little expendible income.

Anyone with a real answer?

Mine works perfectly with no issues and I have a 1.8ghz intel with 1gig of ram... I am sure thats quite standard with most lappys these days, Ive noticed ableton isnt really process intensive compared to a heap of other programs out there like it. Just don't go running a billion things at once.

the more the better. and lag will be generated by the latency of the audio interface you are using instead of too little ram. if you are dead set on a PC id look into the emu 1616. since its a pcmcia interface, it will have the least amount of bandwidth bottleneck. it will give you lower latency than anything in USB or firewire. and its got an onboard DSP with lots of cool VSTs that you can use in ableton too. having the onboard DSP will take the strain off your CPU when using those pulgins and increase your processor overhead = better performance. i just wish it was mac compatable.

i was running ableton on a 1.2 ghz p4 with a 400mhz FSB and ! g pc100 ram and it worked fine. not much processor overhead, but it got the job done. basically the highest numbers you can get in terms or GHZ, FSB, RAM, RAM speed, and HD RPM, the better you will do.