Funding Goal (continued) - an update (Patreon)

Once again, thank you everyone.  

I wanted to update you about my Patreon goal, which has not changed and remains the same, in that I want to put all that I can into this.  

The next investment will a computer that can process my audio tracks, more quickly and with better quality.  At the moment I am using a borrowed DELL Precision Laptop, which is ok but has a limited sound card.  I do have a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 (thanks to Lewis for the tip), which has improved the process of transferring the audio to the laptop. 

I could use some more advice if anyone can offer this to me.  Online experts say that I should be using something with at least 32GB of RAM, Multi-Core Processor like an i7/i9 equivalent and with a lot of storage (at least 2TB).

I do not have a lot of hardware experience, specifically for Audio & Visual work, so please if anyone can help and give me some advice I would really appreciate it.

I would like to continue with Audacity for editing, I know this program well.  But I do have Ableton Live (with no clue how to use it), and of course my *assistant* uses bandlab which is online and a more Apple Oriented application.

So, please if you can spare some time - please can you help?  Do I go Apple, Dell, HP or Microsoft? Or, something else? I just don't know, and there is the cost too which I need to keep as low as possible, and so I know how much to save up :-). 

Thanks in advance x

Chanel