

but i only get the odd drop out/crackle once maybe here and there and then nothing for hours and hours it runs flawlessly so it's a non-issue for me, i think turning the Internet off actually helps a lot also with any issues audio wise. It actually is not perfect for audio production as it has audio latency issues according to latencymon testing. Its really a cheap laptop at aporox £500, it's light and looks sleek. I just bought a lenovo ideapad 5 AMD Ryzen 5 4500, only paid about £500 and its great, it makes zero fan noise for 90 per cent of the time its operational, its completely overpowered for just running vsts, but is so quiet and easy to use, i love it. But if there's a nice, proven plug and play solution on the PC side, I'm willing to listen. Is there anything else I should be considering? I'd honestly prefer not to have to deal with choosing some el-cheapo laptop, and finding out it has really obnoxiously loud fans, requires certain OS versions that work with ASIO drivers, and in the end discover there's manufacturer firmware that cripples audio latency. Plus, I can take a gamble that if Garritan ever recompiles Aria player for ARM, it'll get even faster. That'd be pretty small, simple, and no extra audio interfaces or anything else needed. So I was thinking maybe a Mac Mini M1, set it up to open CFX on bootup, mount it under/behind the DP without a monitor, and just reboot the machine anytime something goes wrong (with my MBP, after more than 60 days uptime, CFX would sometimes stop outputting from the right speaker). So while I've been thoroughly enjoying the native sounds from the NV-10, for the first time really, I'd still like to get back to CFX, and I want to do so in the easiest, no-nonsense way, with as little setup/hassle/maintenance as possible.

But I've switched jobs and that computer had to go back.

I'm a big fan of Garritan CFX, and ran it for years on a spare work Macbook Pro (record uptime: over 100 days!).
