How much power do I need

I'm buying a use 1.5 GHZ G4 17" with 1 gig ram powerbook. Will this be enough to run project with 40 tracks of audio?
This is just audio, i'll worry about plugins later.
Thanks

hi allan, yes, it should do the job, provided you use a second drive for the audio.
have a client with same and he records live gigs, no problem.

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