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Good laptop specs for Digital djing?

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  • March 6, 2012 at 10:49 pm #16250
    shr3dder
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    Suprisingly little.

    Anything with a minimum of a i3 and 4gig of RAM should be more then enough, tho I’ve ran Traktor on a Core2Duo with no problems.

    March 7, 2012 at 1:28 am #16260
    KidNatural
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    What about Macbook Pros? Does it matter if its a 2.2 ghz or 2.5 ghz? If they both have 4gb ram. Are the older models just as good?

    March 7, 2012 at 2:42 am #16273
    shr3dder
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    I’ve run Traktor and a DDJ T1 on a 2008 Macbook with no issues at all…. So yeah that’d be ample.

    March 7, 2012 at 6:18 am #16299
    Pär Hessler
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    Any macbook/macbook pro with Intel processor will do the job.
    2Gb ram is OK but the more Ram the better and HDD should be large enough to
    contain Mac os + your software (traktor?) and your music……

    I run a Macbook Pro 2008 with Intel dualcore 3Gb ram and 500Gb HDD with no issues

    March 7, 2012 at 7:57 pm #16386
    DJ T3ch Hu5ky
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    DJ Hessler, post: 16381, member: 537 wrote: Any macbook/macbook pro with Intel processor will do the job.
    2Gb ram is OK but the more Ram the better and HDD should be large enough to
    contain Mac os + your software (traktor?) and your music……

    I run a Macbook Pro 2008 with Intel dualcore 3Gb ram and 500Gb HDD with no issues

    sorry buddy. no macs. born and taught pc. but i did find out that my netbook can run virutal dj and all my equipment at top performance. so i think i my have had this whole issue taken care of.

    March 8, 2012 at 6:21 am #16427
    Pär Hessler
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    DJ T3ch Hu5ky, post: 16468, member: 721 wrote: sorry buddy. no macs. born and taught pc. but i did find out that my netbook can run virutal dj and all my equipment at top performance. so i think i my have had this whole issue taken care of.

    Sorry to hear that about the Mac but you might come to your senses some day hopefully 😉
    Nice to hear that your issues are taken care of 🙂

    March 8, 2012 at 8:22 am #16431
    DJ T3ch Hu5ky
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    DJ Hessler, post: 16509, member: 537 wrote: Sorry to hear that about the Mac but you might come to your senses some day hopefully 😉
    Nice to hear that your issues are taken care of 🙂

    Not to start a mac vs pc thread but to me a 2000 dollar pc that cant bse upgraded and forces you to toss out your old hard ware and spend 2000 more dollars on one with more ram is a huge ball buster for me.

    March 8, 2012 at 9:05 am #16432
    atom
    Member

    MAC OS IS FAR BETTER FOR DJ
    CORE AUDIO IS VERY STABLE
    BUT IF FEEL WELL WHIT WINDOWS OS CHECK THE SAMSUNG SERIES 7

    March 8, 2012 at 9:23 am #16433
    Arbite
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    The only issue is that there are some really good programs on Mac that Aren’t on PC (traktor mapping, Osculator etc.)

    If you can get a decent second hand mac it would be decent, but there are no real issues with PC. In fact my PC has proved more useful in more situations than my old mac.

    March 8, 2012 at 1:45 pm #16437
    Tero Nousiainen
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    I’d get a series-old thinkpad or any other laptop thats rugged and originally sold for business use. They gradually have better quality in parts. Then just make an install of win7 with -everything- taken out except the things you really need – and keep it that way. Then pc might hold without constant tweaking. “15 yrs with pc, mac since -07”

    p.s. Specs are really not that important. Anything 2 years old or newer can run todays dj-software if the os is light enough. I’d put my money on SSD drive.

    March 8, 2012 at 6:44 pm #16455
    KidNatural
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    2 gb ram vs 4 gb ram on the macboook pros. Are the differences noticeable runnin traktor and serato?

    March 9, 2012 at 12:03 am #16463
    DJ T3ch Hu5ky
    Member

    atom, post: 16514, member: 908 wrote: MAC OS IS FAR BETTER FOR DJ
    CORE AUDIO IS VERY STABLE
    BUT IF FEEL WELL WHIT WINDOWS OS CHECK
    THE SAMSUNG SERIES 7

    Good advice but please sir turn down your capslock, you dont need to yell. 🙂

    March 9, 2012 at 5:59 am #16475
    Pär Hessler
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    KidNatural, post: 16537, member: 1650 wrote: 2 gb ram vs 4 gb ram on the macboook pros. Are the differences noticeable runnin traktor and serato?

    You can never get too much RAM
    But you will be fine with 2Gb.
    You will notice if/when you ever use more than 2Gb Ram
    as the computer than uses HDD space as viritual RAM.

    But Mac as I know it uses less RAM than a PC for OS and less other things that needs to run in background.

    March 9, 2012 at 7:52 am #16481
    atom
    Member

    DJ T3ch Hu5ky, post: 16546, member: 721 wrote: Good advice but please sir turn down your capslock, you dont need to yell. 🙂

    sorry for the caps

    March 15, 2012 at 9:24 am #16790
    Phil Morse
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    Arbite, post: 16515, member: 654 wrote: The only issue is that there are some really good programs on Mac that Aren’t on PC (traktor mapping, Osculator etc.)

    If you can get a decent second hand mac it would be decent, but there are no real issues with PC. In fact my PC has proved more useful in more situations than my old mac.

    To be fair, there are some good programs on PC that aren’t on Mac too – I miss a really good MP3 tag editor on Mac.

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