How many tracks to you plan to record at once?
To give you an idea, I'm only doing 1 track via a Rode Podcaster on a Lenovo S10 Netbook (Atom 1.6ghx/2GB/160GB HHD). I'm able to definitely record at 24/96 with around 50-60% CPU usage through Audacity. All in XP with A/V et al resident softwares running in the background.
So depending how many tracks you need to do at once, you may have to pony up big dollars for basically a portable workstation lol
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