Tascam FW1804 + which laptop?

[lhama]

Hello. This is my first post here, so please be kind

I play in a four piece band and we have decided to have some kind of daw to record our new demo.

The setup I would like to sugest to my band is a Tascam 1804 with a Behringer ADA8000 to a laptop. All this laptop has to do is record 16 tracks at the highest, and then playback. All effects will be done on my music computer at home. The reason I want to use a laptop is to do the recording different places. The drums, bass and guitars will be tracked at rehearsal, while vocals, clicktracks, keyboards... will be done somewhere ells.


What kind of laptop (pc) do i need to do this? I have been thinking about a dell inspirion 9300 (Intel® Pentium® M-processor 770, 256 MB DDR2, 60 GB3 Ultra ATA-100-harddisc). Is this enough?

 

[cawhite12]

I used a Tascam 1804 for a while with a Dell Inspiron 8600 with a 2.0Ghz Pentium M. It worked fine almost all of the time. However, there were a few times where the Interface would get out of sync for seemingly no reason, even with a TI firewire chipset. The computer specs you have would be fine except for the RAM (DDR2). You would want 512 MB minimum, and a Gig would be preferable. With the high track counts you will want a 7200 RPM hard drive as well, or record to an external hard drive.