Fanless laptop to run Audacity

[waynedear]

I'm crossing my fingers and going to try and earn a bit of money doing voiceover work.
I have friends doing it with some success, they will show me how to run everything, I can not anywhere near afford the computers they are using.
I would like as big a screen as I can get, by all accounts I need at least..... Windows, dual process, 64bit, 8 gig ram, 128gb storage.
Intel i3, i5, i7.
Some of that I have heard of.
Now this may be the killer.... My budget is £300.
Any suggestions much appreciated.

[TheRainMaker]

Audacity will run on any old junk.

What do you need a fanless laptop for? Are you thinking of using that to record?

If you are, you would be better off using a Zoom recorder of some kind and editing on the laptop.

[thebraketester]

You don't need that spec to record 1 channel.

You could record voice over stuff using an iPad with an interface and microphone.

[Junglebert]

Choice of microphone and recording environment is far more important than laptop

[LunarOne]

TheRainMaker said:

Audacity will run on any old junk.

What do you need a fanless laptop for? Are you thinking of using that to record?

If you are, you would be better off using a Zoom recorder of some kind and editing on the laptop.

This. Get a specialised audio recorder and then edit the files in audacity on any computer. Doesn't need to be fanless as you'll be wearing headphones when you edit.

https://cpc.farnell.com/tascam/dr-05x/tascam-dr-05...

[xeny]

Presuming you've got at least some kind of computer, it may be worth (see how things go before spending the money) buying a bigger external screen for it and working on that.

[thebraketester]

Junglebert said:

Choice of microphone and recording environment is far more important than laptop

Absolutely 100% this.

[waynedear]

I should have asked here in the first place, brilliant, thank you all.
I am making a small studio in the loft, all surfaces will be soft, I like my removals blanket walls and free carpet tiles, rug was already up there.
A friend gave me her spare microphone, Samson q2u, in exchange for fixing her Dyson vac and tip runs, mike boom will be bolted to the desk that I made from osb I had left over from building stage boxes.