friketrike

If you want to go really quiet and cheap (about $200, reaper included) but don't mind the performance hit (a basic editing machine), you can get an old lenovo t60 on ebay and swap out the hard drive with a 128 gb ssd; install tpfan (to bring fan noise down) and reaper and you're good to go. Sturdy little machines. I did that so I could put in a PCMCIA Multiface I had lying around and record in the studio without my DAW's fan noise and it works just fine, as quiet as you can go. You can also gut out the cd-rom and put in another ssd with a cd-bay caddy off of ebay so you'll have one system drive and one recording drive and you're still under the $300 mark.