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Jeff G

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  • July 3, 2016 at 6:15 am in reply to: Retina v. Non-retina MBP #2415091
    Jeff G
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    Yea you’re right, I was thinking of the older 15″ model (and there are plenty out there in good condition). I’d say the 13″ for weight reduction and price. DJ Vintage did make a good point, though. You could probably find used 15″ Retinas (eBay for one) at great prices, and honestly the price you’d pay for a 13″ could give you a quad-core 15″ Retina laptop, that’ll outperform the 13″ just based on raw CPU power. ALWAYS get a quad-core if you can afford it. I honestly wish they’d stop making dual-cores for anything that’s not a tablet or a phone, and even a lot of phones are quad-cores now (except the iPhone but that dual-core CPU is a monster).

    July 2, 2016 at 8:54 pm in reply to: What mixer with rekordbox dj DVS #2415041
    Jeff G
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    If you’re comfortable with MIDI mapping, you could buy the DJM-S9 and MIDI-map the pads to your liking. idk if the DJM-T1 (assuming you can even find one) is mapped or not.

    July 2, 2016 at 8:52 pm in reply to: Best laptop for dj'ing ? (besides apple) #2415031
    Jeff G
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    Want a good laptop that’s not a Macbook Pro for DJ’ing? Look at the gaming-oriented laptops. Fast storage, quad-core i7, dedicated GPU. You really don’t have any other options besides those.

    Just to name a few off the top of my head:

    HP Omen (my battery isn’t holding a charge anymore…weird)
    Dell XPS 15 9550
    MSI Ghost Pro
    Origin EVO 15-s (more expensive version of the Ghost Pro with faster storage & I think more RAM)
    Razer Stealth/Razer Blade 2016 (neither will work well with Serato visually due to poor scaling at those >1080p resolutions)

    July 2, 2016 at 8:45 pm in reply to: Retina v. Non-retina MBP #2415021
    Jeff G
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    Well for one, your storage won’t be as fast as the Retina because it uses a proprietary PCI-e SSD. It’ll boot up insanely fast, but unless your workload requires it, you won’t notice it. And if you don’t even understand what I’m talking about, chances are you won’t need it.

    The non-retina is 1400×900, so unless you want that IPS screen (as gorgeous as it is) and the high resolution, you’d do better going with the non-retina and installing the RAM (supports up to 16GB of DDR3, idk about the speed though so Google it) and whatever storage you want on your own.

    Oh, and get the i7 😛 Even though it’s a dual-core.

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