Should I??....

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Here is the equipment:
Computer: HP Pavilion 80 GB Hard drive 1 GB of memory, Fire wire external Hard rive 180GB Hard drive, USB external Hard drive 200 MB
Software: Adobe Audition 2.0, other plug-ins including Waves and Amplitude.
Sound Card - Mackie Onyx 1640 fire wire.

Here is the scenario I've got 50 tracks on a project that I'm ready to start mixing down and adding effects to. The tracks are already skipping and I'm sure will get worse when adding effects. Considering I've already read every article on making the computer ready for DAW, defragging, etc…. should I.


A. Go ahead and try to do more with less - like 25 tracks instead of 50.
B. Take off every other software program and see if I can squeeze a bit more power out of the laptop.
C. Put myself into debt and in the dog house by buying a new computer
 
We need what speed your cpu is to help with that. CPU and Memory are going to be your most important assests, more memory cant hurt.
 
I'll vote for A. more with less.
50 tracks is alot for any project.
A laptop running Windows may never have enough for that large of a project.
Maybe you can submix some tracks, or archive some to take the strain off.
 
AMD Athlon XP-M processor at 1.86 GHz with 1 MB of RAM and a 40GB HDD.
 
Well, concidering you are playing all of these tracks from the same harddisk at once, you could try changing or spreading files to other hard drives. The internal HD probably spins too slowly to read all the files at the same time. The external hard drive might be fast enough if used with firewire. If you put 25 tracks on one external drive, and the other 25 on your second external, maybe your computer will be able to pull it off. If not, you can increase the buffer size of your soundcard driver conciderably (since you won't be tracking anymore on this project anyway), which should reduce the loud conciderably.

In the end though, you may still need a faster CPU and (more) ram. I know my comparable desktop PC could probably pull it off though.
 
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