Advice on a Laptop

[DonaldM]

Would appreciate some advice on getting a new laptop as my old Dell Latitude E5530 is beginning to disintegrate.



I will NOT be using this for anything related to mixing or recording with Pro Tools. Besides personal and work related use (mainly, MS Office stuff), I also use it when I play live with my Church's band. I need something powerful enough to run Reason, Omnisphere, and/or Falcon 2 for sure. I use fairly elaborate set ups sometimes with multilayered sounds and/or multiple controller splits. The Dell often runs into CPU issues, so I have to scale back the layers or splits.



We use a Yamaha MOXF as the main controller via USB connection. This allows all the audio from the laptop to pass through the MOXF out to the sound system with a separate gain fader on the MOXF for that. I often mix, say, Reason rack set ups with something from the MOXF as well for example, using the MOXF's Master Mode to set up everything. Switching sounds and setups is a matter of pressing 1 button!



I'm thinking 1TB SSD, i7 Intel Core, 16GB DRAM. Any suggestions on make/models I should consider? My budget for this is probably $750 Max.



Thanks for any suggestions.