Cayden:
In your initial post to this forum, you stated " I play Irish Whistle, am a habitual listener of Irish Traditional Music, and seek to make recordings of myself and friends playing music.
I just recently purchased a Zoom H4N recorder to get started. I will also be looking to purchase a laptop / DAW that can be used somewhat dedicated for audio recording / editing, and for limited home use of emailing, surfing web, etc. I have prior experience with PC, none with Mac, but am open minded to suggestions."
I presume you posted your inquiry regarding an ADK laptop as a follow-up to your "quest" --
Looking at the ADK laptop website, it seems that the selling point for these laptops is that they have good/stable firewire interfaces that enable them to be used with a variety of multichannel recording interfaces to record a large number of channels at once. Other than that, you appear to be getting a pretty standard laptop (without any recording software) at what seems to me to be pretty expensive price.
My first question for you is what you intend to record and how elaborate you intend to get.
As stated above, you're looking to get into studio "audio recording/editing" and are currently using a zoom h4n, an all in one recorder with a built-in stereo mic. Studio recording can be as simple as recording an ensemble from a distance using a single mic (or stereo pair) can progress to having a separate mic and channel for each musician you're recording, and can culminate in recording discreet tracks (eg a bass or drum track) and then playing that track back while recording other tracks. Each of these variations could/would involve different hardware and software requirements.
At the cheapest/easiest end, you can use your existing zoom to digitally record your playing and then transfer the recording to a basic 2 channel editing program (audacity is free) on a basic pc (i.e. a basic office depot, best buy, etc. special) and use the program to cut out unwanted portions and adjust volume/eq.
At the most expensive/complex end, you'd be using a variety of microphones to record individual instruments, and would be connecting each microphone to a intermediate preamplifier/analog>digital converter, feeding the digital audio into your computer and capturing/manipulating a number of tracks with the computer. This would require purchase of appropriate microphones, preamps, a mixing board? and a powerful computer that would work with all of this.
So, before you pick up an ADK laptop, be sure you're clear on what else you'll need to go with it and confirm that it is, in fact, what you need to realize your goal. To me, it sounds like you're looking for a more basic/universal laptop/computer at this point and would not benefit from the ADK . . . .
Each of these permutations involves different options and $$$$$.