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These days even entry level Laptops will do fine as long as you are using an external audio interface and not running loads of background apps. My Toshiba Satellite is 5 years old and was at the lower end of the market when purchased, however, Its handled Cubase for years with no noticeable latency. One thing that may influence your decision is the amount of live audio that you want to record concurrently. If you want to record, say, 5 live audio tracks at once then you may need a more powerful machine. If, like me, you are going to use it as a tool to record one live audio track at a time then i wouldn't worry too much about the spec. As a rough guide anything over £400 should be fine.
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Totally agree, we have been using Cubase on a 5 year old Asus laptop running Windows 7 to a Tascam 244 for all of our recordings, they have been good enough to get national airplay, if you get the best possible signal in then even an older budget laptop can deliver excellent results