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  • September 6, 2013 at 2:17 am #43831
    Lamid45G
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    IPAD RULEzZz !!!

    September 6, 2013 at 3:21 am #43833
    Dj Emazing
    Participant

    Sony Vaio, I’m very happy and in love with it.

    September 7, 2013 at 9:42 pm #43861
    Terry_42
    Keymaster

    MacBook Pro 15” 2008 and MacBook Air 13” 2013 Modell.
    Love both. Never let me down.

    September 8, 2013 at 5:56 am #43884
    Edwin Alvarez
    Participant

    mbp. very happy.

    September 8, 2013 at 6:16 am #43885
    Steve (k-rex) Richman
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    Whatever you’re most comfortable with – for me, that’s a reasonably new MacBook Pro. Apple’s near dictatorial approach to hardware/software works to my advantage in terms of stability and Linux/Unix background is very well documented. Nothing against Windows, use it regularly, but very willing to pay more for Mac.

    Like the old joke goes – Why us a divorce so expensive? Because it’s worth it 🙂

    September 8, 2013 at 9:52 am #43892
    Terry_42
    Keymaster

    Steve (k-rex) Richman, post: 44042, member: 12411 wrote:
    Why us a divorce so expensive? Because it’s worth it 🙂

    When you get to my age, you will know: This is no joke 😉

    September 9, 2013 at 2:11 am #43913
    Daryl Northrop
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    I started out on a windows laptop. All the specs exceeded what serato and my controller required, but I still had serious stability issues. So, I bit the bullet and went with a macbook pro – no problems at all since! It is more expensive, but the reliability is a must-have.

    September 10, 2013 at 7:13 am #43975
    DJ Vintage
    Moderator

    I have no qualms about using a Windows laptop for DJ-ing. When installed and configured correctly they can be as stable as any platform. And I have done just that for many years.

    Recently I have bought a (used 15″ 2011) MacBook Pro though and for a number of reasons:
    1) metal case. just better at handling on the road abuse, period
    2) magnetic power supply connector! It’s the most breakable part on just about any regular laptop and when they break usually a very expensive fix (often entire motherboard replacement since the connector in the laptop is soldered to the motherboard!). The apple method, if you bump it, you break the magnetic bond, but nothing else happens. Stick it back on and good to go.
    3) latency. Due to windows issues, you can’t get the latency as low on a Windows machine as you can on a MacBook. And in audio bizz, the lower the latency the better.
    4) sound card drivers. Or rather, the absence of them. Plug and play. Aggregrate mode (while doable on a windows machine with some tools) is native to the Mac and allows you to combine multiple sound devices (say your controller and two modern CDJ style players) into one device recognizable from your software.

    I don’t use it for anything else but DJ-ing. All my office production gear is still PC/Windows laptop. But for DJ-ing it is worth some extra money. If the choice is between a new Windows laptop and a 2-year old macbook, I’d probably opt for the latter.

    Greetinx,
    C.

    September 10, 2013 at 10:16 am #43976
    Charles Sue-Wah-Sing
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    Long-time Mac user. So without a question I knew where I was going. So I bought a refurbished MacBook Pro 13″ from the Apple online store and saved a couple of hundred dollars. Never let me down.

    September 11, 2013 at 7:46 pm #44032
    Stazbumpa
    Participant

    Dell e5520, hi res DJing goodness @ 2ms latency and a third of the price of a Mac.

    September 12, 2013 at 3:31 pm #44075
    DJ 2-Easy
    Participant

    Mac…….that is all i have to say about that! 🙂

    September 26, 2013 at 4:37 am #44654
    dj moetec
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    hello guys, Im buying the Pioneer DDJ SX this weekend. I have have a big question. I am going to buy a Toshiba with:

    • [COLOR=black]Intel® Coreâ„¢ i7-4700MQ Processor (6M Cache, up to 3.40 GHz) with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology[/COLOR]
    • Windows 8
    • [COLOR=black]12GB DDR3L 1600MHz SDRAM (8GB + 4GB)[/COLOR]
    • [COLOR=black]1TB (5400rpm, Serial ATA)[/COLOR]
    • Integrated Graphics DVD SuperMulti (+/-R double layer) drive

    do you think that will handle it or do I need to go Mac. I wanted to do an Alienware but they are expensive as hell.

    September 26, 2013 at 4:59 am #44656
    DJ Vintage
    Moderator

    Slightly overkill … but it should do … DUH!

    You know how many DJ’s (especially our young starting friends) would kill to have something this strong?

    There are several reasons to go to mac, but if you have this, none of those reasons are pressing in my opinion. If you are gonna use it primarily for DJ-ing and budget allows and you think you’ll be doing this a lot, I would invest in a Mac (since this doesn’t exactly seem like a budget laptop either, so the budget might not need to be much higher).

    If you’r getting the Toshiba, my advice (it’s been uttered in other places too) is to make it dual-boot though and preferably with Win7 (or by tearing out the Metro GUI and bringing back the startbutton and homescreen). That way you can have a very clean and uncluttered (trow out everything you don’t need for DJ-ing) environment. Try to keep internet access limited in both time and visited websites and your virusscanner off when you are not online. Switch of search index services and such.

    If you have an IT buddy (and who hasn’t these days), tell him what you need and he can probably do it for you.

    Good luck and greetinx,
    C.

    September 26, 2013 at 5:25 am #44661
    dj moetec
    Participant

    THANKS!!! SO MUCH THANKS!!! i actually picked everything out and wanted to have high everything. i did call my tech buddy and emailed him 3 computers not mac with what i customized them with and he said that this is the strongest and i should have no problem with software.

    I will be djing in clubs with this and in the future possibly get a mac, but if i can build one to be as good as it and still go pc, then im happy.

    I will surely pass on the advice to him about the other stuff you said. by the way can i have Toshiba just put windows 7 on there and make it a dual boot through? what is that anyways?

    IM ONLY USING IT FOR DJING, NO WEB ACCESS, NO DOWNLOADING ONLY DJING & UPLOADING. honest. Ive already heard the horror stories about the other stuff while djing.

    Thanks for you advice man.

    September 26, 2013 at 5:42 am #44663
    DJ Vintage
    Moderator

    dj moetec, post: 44818, member: 15782 wrote: … I will be djing in clubs with this and in the future possibly get a mac, but if i can build one to be as good as it and still go pc, then im happy …

    Being anything but a Mac fan (my main PC and laptops are all windows and I make a decent (part of my) living working on windows pc’s, I would seriously have you consider Mac for the following reasons:
    1) full metal casing. It helps on the road!
    2) standard backlit keys. It helps in the dark!
    3) a brilliant power connector, it’s magnetic so if you hit it, it falls off, just stick it on and you are back in business. No fear of power connector on the laptop breaking off (which they do regularly and often with the only fix being a motherboard swap!)
    4) very good screens for use in dark environments (obviously especially with the new retina’s – I still have the pre-retina one and it’s very good already)
    5) very low latency. Latency is bad. Low latency is good. Due to several reasons, Mac has that part down MUCH better than windows
    6) less driver problems, especially sound drivers.
    7) aggregate driver option. although available in windows, it’s a bitch to link several devices together to form one virtual sound device. Standard on the mac.
    8) If you are sensitive to that kind of thing, image.

    I will surely pass on the advice to him about the other stuff you said. by the way can i have Toshiba just put windows 7 on there and make it a dual boot through? what is that anyways?

    Dual boot is where you essentially split up (a part of) your hard drive into two partitions, one has your first operating system (say win 8) and on the second you install a new version of a (the same or different) of an operating system (say win 7). When you start your computer, you get to choose which operating system you want to start up (say you call them office and dj respectively). The computer will then start into that install and function as usual. It’s like having TWO computers in one casing. Both installs are totally independent, you can crash/trash your office setup and just reboot, pick DJ and go out DJ-ing.

    Toshiba won’t install squat and officially Win7 is no longer supporter, expect for corporate/enterprise customers

    IM ONLY USING IT FOR DJING, NO WEB ACCESS, NO DOWNLOADING ONLY DJING & UPLOADING. honest. Ive already heard the horror stories about the other stuff while djing.

    Dual boot would solve that particular problem, no need to have an expensive piece of equipment sit iddle if you have other things you can use it for.

    Greetinx,
    C.

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