So I'm planning to upgrade from my dell laptop which has been ye old faithful since 2012 and running strong. It's an inspiron 5735 with 8 GB ram and an AMD A8 Processor. I've mostly used Dell my entire life, save for macbook in college.. but I'm open to ANY brand and ANY price range so long as the laptop has a stellar CPU, over 1TB HDD well a lot of storage space but maybe it's smarter to get an external drive...and wonderful audio drivers... maybe this is asking too much but hopefully it could handle gaming.

I'd like some suggestions as I'm planning to buy a new PC soon. I'm clueless on what the best hardware is and how to transfer my FL studio along with projects to a new PC but I'm guessing (hoping) it's as easy as getting a flashdrive to transfer everything.. Anyway, please help as it's been years O.o

 

These are good PC's spec's however you have not given a price range so I am just guessing.

INTEL:
Motherboard: GIGABYTE X390 Designare
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15
CPU: Intel i9 9900k
Video Card: Your Choice
Memory (RAM): HyperX Predator Black 32GB (16GB Min)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G3
Hard Drive: Crucial P1 1TB 3D NAND NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD

AMD:
Motherboard: MSI MPG x570 Gaming Edge Wifi
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3800x (3rd Gen)
CPU Cooler: Arctic Freezer 34 eSports Duo
Video Card: Your Choice
Memory (RAM): Curcial Ballstix Sport 3200 MHz 32GB(16GB Min)
SSD: Samsung 860 EVO 1TB
Power Supply: Corsair TX650M
Non-Stock Fans: Arctic BioniX F120

You can also get it built by these people:

• Audio Desktop Computers (slickaudio.com)
• Video Editing Desktop Computers (slickaudio.com)

 

What would you consider for the Lenovo 5? I'm thinking about buying the legion 5 after browsing as it's within my price range (even though I really have no price cap currently, but 3k or more is insane and around 1k is reasonable. Gonna wait until cyber monday for a sale too but in terms of CPU or performance, what would you recommend for the legion 5, what model, memory, graphics card, or display... I'm clueless to a lot of this sadly. I saw a lot of "lenovo recommends" when browsing, but will these recommendations really make a difference or are they just to uptick the price.

 

I don't want to be a smartass but careful some people reported with nVidia RTX20xx and up cards sometimes interrupts the audio stream "glitches/dropouts" because of the nvidia drivers.
Go with AMD GPU

I'm running a Dell Inspiron 15 from 2016 with i7-6700HQ it works beautiful with audio production
The laptop's 1080p screen and a 25inch 2560x1440 external monitor.
You don't need a powerhouse 2-3000 USD investment.

 

Something that wont struggle to get work done. At least 16GB of memory. 8 cores are better for laptop gaming.

Legion 5 AMD® Ryzen™ 7 4800H Processor with 16GB memory
Legion 7 i7-10750H or i7-10875H model with 16GB memory
ASUS ROG Zephyrus G15 (2020)
ASUS ROG Zephyrus S17 (2020)

See this video. Mentions some of the above items along with some models that seem worthy of consideration.

 

Last edited: Nov 29, 2020

My current audio and gaming rig:

Ryzen 9 3900X (but you can go with a Ryzen 7 if you want to save some scratch)
MSI MAG X570 Tomahawk WIFI
32GB ram
Samsung 960 Evo m.2, Crucial P1 1TB m.2 (and a couple other drives not worth talking about)
MSI RTX 2080 Super Gaming X Trio
ASUS VG27AQL1A monitor (1440p)

Loving it for everything I've used it for so far. I do my gaming at 1440p.

I just bought most of my upgrades in like September, ish.. unfortunately (although maybe fortunately) before catching wind about the 3xxx series of cards. It'll take forever to get one of those, so I'm probably just as well off as is though. This is still a really good video card.