iMac late 2008, 250G, running OSX 10.6

[mariner9mike]

This machine is starting to show signs of age, thinking about replacing it soon.
Question is, when I do, will this machine be able to handle running a music recording software, such as Cubase? If I strip it and use only for this purpose?

 

[mariner9mike]

specs

Running OSX 10.6, 4G ram, 2.4 GHz processor.

 

[dyt1983]

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