i make all my beats on my asus laptop which i copped in december, shyt has been great so far. i7 processor and 8 gb ram for around 800 bucks. i think lenovo also makes cheap laptops with good specs, dunno bout reliability tho. before i had a toshiba laptop which was just
performance-wise, ableton lagged like hell when i had more than 10 or so tracks. but yea if u concerned bout budget i'd recommend the asus/lenovo models, if u got cash (unlike me
) then im sure there are better models.