a good hardware config to run usine

[XpiR]

Hi geeks
It's getting harder and harder to run Usine on my light eeePC 1215N, even with all the suggested system optimizations I often reach the CPU limit...
I'm planning to buy a new laptop PC, I found this :

Intel® Core™ i7 3630QM 2.40 GHz ~ 3.40 GHz
DDR3 1600 MHz SDRAM, 4Mo (can be extended to 16Mo)
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 660M 2 Go GDDR5 VRAM
750 Go 7200 tpm

880€ reconditionned

What do you think ? It's far far better than my eeePC but isn't it "too much" ? (it is sold as a gamer laptop)
Do you run a cheaper config without any problem ?

Thanks

[drakh]

my opinion for music - if you are using lot of realtime processing it is never too much at least that laptop will serve you for longer time without need of updating it. i'm running similar configuration and sometimes i can reach 80% of CPU in usine in my most complex workspaces. but my notebook is used as worksation ... premiere/3d modeling/programming/anything.../gaming..... My main reason was not power of that machine, but that it has firewire (i am using firewire soundcard) the power - and by that the time that notebok will be able do all the tasks i n need for longer time was secondary reason.

[Clearscreen]

My laptop is pretty much the same configuration and it's great! I'd say quicker is better if you can afford it. I have managed to push it to max cpu at times, but I find workflow will expand to use up what's available fairly quickly....

[XpiR]

OK, thanks for your feedback, I'll go for this kind of config