256MB will be pleanty for audio recording, but if you're going to do any soft synth work with things like sound fonts, you'll want and probably use the 512MB. Cheers, Mark > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-audio-user-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:linux-audio-user-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Atte > Andre Jensen > Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 10:39 AM > To: lau > Subject: [linux-audio-user] how much ram? > > > Hi > > I'm now 1 small step from getting a laptop for music applications > (mainly live csound, but also some sequencer (muse?), some soft synths > (csound/PD), some sample playback + maybe HD-recording. > > I'm looking at 2 machines > > a)P4 2.4Ghz, 256Mb RAM, 20Gb HD, 1400x1050 > b)P4 2.66Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 40Gb HD, 1024x768 > > Since I'm comming from AMD K6-300, 256Mb RAM, 8Gb HD, I cannot judge if > a) is gonna be too small for my use? Every salesperson will tell you > that you *have* to have 512Mb RAM, since they're assuming you're running > WinXP, how true is this with linux. I don't see the smaller HD as a big > problem, although the bigger the better... > > Any thoughts are appreciated. > -- > peace, love & harmony > Atte > >
