Dennis Mount Joy

I am wondering, can I get professional and clear audio recording from my labtop. I have upgraded the heck out of my labtop. I have a Dell Inspirion E1505 with windows XP Media Center. I have 3GB’s of RAM, a 320GB 7200RPM Western Digital harddrive in it, and Intel Core Duo 1.66 processor. I will be using Cakewalk Sonar 8 Producer Edition, and will be using a Presonus firepod 10 for recording through firewire, I have some nice monitor speakers and plenty of shure vocal mics. I will have later a 500GB portable Harddrive. I am planning on recording full bands so that means alot of tracks, probably around 30 to 40 tracks max. Can that core duo 1.66 processor handle that when mixing and editing. What do you guys thinks. Can I get great recordings. I really don’t want to spend money on getting a desktop when i did all this to my labtop. I want to start a recording studio and be able to produce recordings that sound like they came from a decent studio. what do you think. Thanks

I think it’d be better with a faster/better processor. Also your audio card will play a major roll in how good the quality will be