MacBook Pro with boot camp

Yeah, there’s really no point worrying about what he uses unless you’re plugging into a Serato Certified mixer (DJM-900SRT for Ex.) and you’re trying to do flawless DJ swaps. Besides, I’ve noticed people tend to like those breaks between DJs as it lets them get a drink or what have you. (Could also be an American thing)

To answer your question though, that should be more than capable of doing a bookcamp setup. Just don’t forget to limit the stress on the CPU and what have you by following the basic optimization steps like turning off your wifi card and keeping the background stuff to an absolute minimum. You could probably also tell Windows to open into a “Perfomance” (I.E. super Optimized) mode all the way to the command line but you need to be super comfortable with doing that kind of stuff before you do it as you don’t want to have windows crashing all the time, even it would even work at all. But that’s only if you decide to do the bookcamp route.

By the way, I understand I didn’t address the plugin issue. Depending on how big a part of your workflow those plugins are, that might bring the swing vote towards getting a really nice windows laptop instead of a mac. BTW, be prepared to pay something similar as you would on a Macbook if you want a top of the line laptop.

While I use a Macbook now, I started with my windows laptop with Traktor, then when I left Traktor for Mixvibes Cross. Never did I NOT get a gig because the software wasn’t Serato or the laptop wasn’t an Apple. If only because the people booking/hiring know what they talk about and let the music speak and know that gear is irrelevant or (more commonly) they are totally clueless about the gear you are bringing. Stick a glow in the dark PEAR sticker on the back of your windows laptop and smile, I say.

Seriously Steve, I can not imagine a club owner saying you can bring a laptop and controller but it needs to be a Macbook with Serato or you won’t get the gig.