Hey there!

I'm thinking of buying a laptop for music production and came across one with an Intel 6-Core i7-9750H 2.60GHz Up to 4.5GHz CPU and 16GB of RAM, expandable up to 32GB. Before making the purchase, I wanted to investigate the specs and make sure it will meet my needs.

I'm mostly interested in producing electronic music and hip hop, which means I won't be recording acoustic instruments. I have heard that the CPU is one of the most important factors in music production and I don't want to have any limitations or slowdowns while creating music.

So my question is, is this CPU good enough for the kind of music production I am interested in? Any thoughts or advice on this would be greatly appreciated. I want to make an informed decision before making the purchase.

This is the laptop

 

At $1,299 U.S..No!

 

if you can, buy a pc... you can get more performance per dollar.

 

I'm going to disagree with the others here and say that if portability is important to you, this is a good laptop from a reliable brand and it will be more than adequate for you to produce music. You can always freeze your tracks if you start getting audio glitches.

 

In fact, I'll buy it for $700. I posted the Amazon link just so you guys can see the laptop. Thanks for the advice though.

 

Thank you very much for your reply. Yes, to freeze the tracks is very important. I'll keep that in mind.

 

I want to do that next year actually.

 

I have the predecessor to this, being the Asus ROG GL503GE with the i7-8750H CPU with the RAM upgraded to 32GB. It's what I use for most of my techno, tech house, and film scoring music making needs. I picked mine up for about £450 in the UK about 3 years ago and not let me down since.

 

The most important factor is a quality audio interface, IMHO.
I'd also go with 32 GB of RAM.

 

For a little bit more money. You can get a 8 core Mac Mini M2 with 24 GB of ram and 1 TB of storage. And heres a bonus, your fans will be dead silent

 

Is i3 12100f good for music ? I know that it is very good for gaming.

 

One thing to take into account: gaming laptops can get loud, which is not so much of a problem when playing games, but it is when making music. I'm not aware of the noise this specific gaming laptop makes, but you might find some info on the web on it.

 

Thats a very good choice for a budget build and it'd work quite well for music production, lots of DAWs prefer fast single core speeds. Once you get into making massive projects tho the multicore performance may be a limiting factor down the line but it should still hold its own there.

 

I actually got it for 700$ because it's already a used laptop. The owner used it for a year and it is in excellent condition in its original box. He's selling it because he built a much more powerful gaming PC and no longer uses the laptop.

 

my 2017 MacBook Pro is i7 and just about the same comparable specs. plus or minus around 100$ you did good at 700. You might do some bouncing and freezing depending on the size of your projects, but it is certainly manageable for electronic music. But, you will also notice it if you are mixing and pile on a lot of cpu-hungry realtime audio fx plugins.

 

why a laptop?

if i was going to buy a computer now i might try one of the new micro PC's with a Ryzen 7 or 9 in it.

otherwise, shop for the CPU first, and then motherboard second, and a big m.2 drive that's fast as blazes.

laptops are kind of rubbish unless you are constantly moving around.

 

I agree with livemouse regarding the desktop computer you're going to buy to consider Ryzen7 5700X or 5600X, or even 5700G (with VGA). Ryzens give you more performance for the money than Intel. Having said that, I do like Intel CPUs up to 8th generation, even 9th (i7-9700 8c no HT) - without hyperthreading, they can be had for very reasonable prices 2nd hand these days and they are very powerful for making music.

It feels great having both laptop and desktop as you can use them at the same time. 2 good CPUs is always better than 1.

 

We'll just continue shopping for a few more pages now.