Desktop PC for music production

If you looking for new, you probably need to spend £350.
You will get Ryzen 5 5600g or i5 10th gen for that

uk.webuy.com/pro…=25

Consider this if you OK with used.
This CPU release Q1 2022, this PC is about 1 year old.

May I ask what sort of music production? 8Gb of RAM is not a lot for many DAW's, you might want to increase it or at least buy something that allows future upgrade.

I also have to ask why Windows? My daughter's doing music production at Uni, and the 'standard' seems to be Apple. I realise it's probably twice your budget, but would an M1 Max Mini be a better option?

Oh, and a decent sized SSD for either Windows or Mac would be a good idea, my daughter is battling against 256Gb of storage simply because a handful of sample libraries takes up a huge chunk of it.

A Mac Mini would be better suited for music production - the software has a free trial: apple.com/uk/…ro/


That video demonstrates a 2012 Mac mini is still useable today - it can be had for around £100, the latest Mac Mini is around £600, however you can get a slightly older model well within your budget (although going PC or Mac you still would need to purchase the production software which would be about £200 + plug-ins) (edited)

You could place a bid on this, I've searched the serial number and it still has over 2 years of manufacturer warranty left: ebay.co.uk/itm…660