suitable minimal laptop for Pyramix Pro (Anubis/DSD)

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A mac user I need to get a PC laptop solely to run Pyramix Pro. Wish to spend as little as possible whilst also having something portable (airline carry on - for use with Anubis for DSD recording). Am totally ignorant about PCs so any up to date recommendations would be much appreciated. Thanks!

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An excellent question made more essential with the demise of Bootcamp. I'd certainly be interested in what you learn.

However, this forum no longer gets much traffic, so I'd recommend that you check out the Pyramix Knowledge Base. Here's a good place to start: https://merging.atlassian.net/wiki/search?text=laptop

[r8954]

Hi Frank, thanks for getting back on this. Following your advice spent time staring at the specs table:

https://merging.atlassian.net/wiki/spac ... MBINATIONS

I didn't really understand what I was supposed to glean from it but it struck me that the processors were in general nothing amazing. I was also concerned that it might be somewhat application-specific. For example, in the application guide for DSD:

https://www.merging.com/uploads/assets/ ... _Guide.pdf

merging say, rather worryingly "you need to have a very powerful workstation in order to work with DSD/DXD properly and without issue". Well perhaps they mean 36 track DXD but nonetheless it's not clear.

Anyway I asked my dealer to check with them if a Dell XPS 13 i5 laptop(windows11 family, 16GB RAM, 512 SSD) would be OK (that's a lightweight 13 inch laptop, good for travel) for my application (recording DSD, prob not much more than stereo...). The response came back to get the i7 version of the same laptop and consider that a minimum. So that's what I'll do!

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Thanks for your update, and I'm glad you found a suitable machine. If you are planning to use the Native version, or non-native, but without MassCore, you need more speed than cores, as Pyramix without MassCore runs on a single processor. I'm thinking that might explain the recommendation for an i5 machine...?