components for audio editing?

What quality components should my notebook have if I want to do heavy-duty audio editing?

if I really want my editing to run smoothly and efficiently, is this enough?

Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 (2.4GHZ)
3GB, DDR3, 1066MHZ, 1 SoDIMM
320G HARD DRIVE, 5400RPM

thanks!

 

What I would do if I were you is this: Upgrade internal hard drive to 7200 RPM. That's optional I guess, but for sure you need an external eSATA hard drive. Internal for OS and programs, external for media. Your processor is fine and it wouldn't hurt to get 4 GB of RAM.

 

thanks bassflow, i'm thinking of doing an exchange: would you downgrade the processor to Intel Core 2 Duo T6500, (2.1GHz 800Mhz, 2M L2 Cache) and upgrade RAM to 4GB?

also, would having the external hard drive be only a question of space or would it speed things up as well?..

 

Well actually you could try selling your 1 GB of RAM and buy a 2 GB for what $20-$30? It's not exactly so expensive that you would have to downgrade your processor.
And the external hard drive is a question of speed. If you had an SSD it would be fine to have all you stuff on that drive but since their mechanical it slows everything down when it has to use tons of stuff. Make sure that with the external drive, it MUST be eSATA. USB is ridiculously slow.

 

cool, thanks a lot bassflow.. only thing is I noticed that with the model i'm getting i'm gonna be stuck with 3GB RAM for a while.. there's only one swappable slot, and 1GB of RAM is integrated somewhere else or something, so upgrading would mean buying a 3 or 4GB RAM which i'm not so sure i want to do..
also, nice specs on your laptop! looks like it meets all your suggestions

 

Oh yea that's not good well 3 GB will be enough once W7 comes out. And it's still acceptable on Vista. And thanks I have to photo, video, and audio edit with my notebook so I needed it. Granted, in a year I'll upgrade processor and RAM.

 

Also take a look at this thread: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=383302

 

uh oh.. mine should be worse than that i guess, because its a cheaper model... thanks, i'm gonna take a look at this

people seem to be writing that the whole Dell XPS series doesn't seem to work well with audio editing.. but does yours work well? if it does, i don't really understand why the bigger model would be having problems..

 

Well I haven't begun audio editing on my SXPS yet, what's your laptop? You should ask in the appropriate forum for somebody to test a similar or same model as yours with the tool in the first page of that thread.

 

thanks i'll do that.. hope yours works well!