New laptop to DJ with?

Upgrade to a Mac ….
No drivers to hassle with, stable platform, takes a beating….
There is a reason why most music professionals use them.

My crappy Acer laptop, 2009 vintage, still runs traktor with no problems at all. Macs are nice, expensive for what they do though and I’ve yet to see Mac do anything a PC can’t. Work out your budget and factor things in like weight and build quality, you will be gigging with after all. As the learned gentleman above pointed out, leave Windows 8 in the mid term at least, Win7 is plenty good enough and we all know it works. I too am in the market for a new lappy, currently assessing refurbished stuff on eBay. The only must have I would say is RAM, 4gigs of it is the minimum I’d have.
Good luck 🙂

Get a copy of windows 7 install it on to the Dell Inspiron 1525 and see how it runs. 4 years (IMO) is not very old Unless your looking to get a faster laptop then ignore what i said.

Be aware that your drive format may need a plugin to work on a Mac or you will have read only access. The additional cost of a Mac puts me off as most Windows laptops are easily capable of running DJ software.
When my last laptop died, the hd drive went, I had to purchase one qucikly so bought a Dell Studio 15. I stripped out all the extras diable any unwanted hardware so it’s configured to be used strictly for DJing and music. I then repaired the old one by replacing the drive and that’s used as the general internet horse.
If your looking for a dedicated DJ windows Laptop rather than an everyday work horse you can have them pre-configured for audio, custom built or configure it yourself (there are guides on Youtube) Illuminated keyboards help. I’d certainly go for as much RAM possible 2Gb minimum, prerably 4Gb to 8Gb (as above stay away from Win8 for now). As you’re running external HDDs the in built one may not matter but SSDs are the way to go.Like you I have a large collection, just under 2Tb but to be honest I could carry off any mobile gig playing music for all ages and taste with 50Gb to 100Gb of music and if I was doing a 4hr club set I’d use a 64Gb flash drive.

You’ve either got a lot of WAV’s or enough Mp3 music to play back to back for well over a year : )

After 25 years in the wonderful world of the computers few weeks ago I’ve got a Macbookpro.
Honestly bigger anti-apple person than me is hard to find but when I decided that I’m gonna move away from my desktop and make a dj stand and everything, I said “why not go on a huge trip at the same time?”.
25 years with DOS and Win…..25 years as computer programmer and tech……I am ashamed to say but hell I needed to google how the ***** find programs I’ve installed on this mac. It wasnt fun to be next to me for a few days cause I had a bad temper. 🙂
1 thing for sure: I can make things on this laptop that I cant on my desktop. Having my session broadcasted through camtwist to webpage, at the same time broadcasting the audio to a web radio and having 3 other programs open to send the metadata to twitter and the shoutcast server, recording the video in quicktime and recording the audio in traktor……and the cpu meter in traktor not even moves a milimeter (for US ppl…..milimeter is very-very little). My dekstop would have gone on strike since long time ago.
I still hate apple but I’m getting used to this laptop at least.
PS: if you switch to mac…dont be scared when things you take granted in windows actually cannot be done on mac without installing a program for it!
Ah and my Microsoft Lifecam works better with mac than a mac certified web cam….wonderful world of logic…isnt it? 🙂

Living Legend Colm G, post: 28609, member: 11 wrote: …Is that a case of just having two different users set up?

Just make sure when you install a new program you only install it for the user you need to.