Yves Creten

@ Terry_42

Whoops, sorry about that! 😀

@ DJ Paramor

Did you see my crack comment? (I thought it was funny and it’s good advice) 🙂
Also:
– No X-rated websites
– No dodgy websites (crack etc)
– Clean desktop
– Enough free space on SSD
– Don’t install things you don’t need
– Restart your laptop once in a while

But if you’ll only use it for Dj-ing that should be fine.

==> Make sure it’s your laptop: don’t let anyone else use it :p

I think you have to look at it like this:

If you could buy a mac for 400 € it would be more or less equally crap compared to a same value windows laptop.

If you buy a windows laptop for the same price (and with the same specs as a mac) it can run about as smooth.

I’m not speaking out of dj-ing experience but out of a normal user experience. Until last year I always had a windows laptop (always hp). Last year I bought a mac because I needed final cut for my studies etc…

I really like how my mac works, but then again i’m almost 100% sure that I would have the same love for a windows laptop running the same specs.
(battery performance included: My macbook really lasts forever “until now”. Don’t underestimate this but battery life = longer life for yourself cause you stress less 🙂 )

But I live by one strict rule: Don’t do bad things to your laptop

I’ve seen really slow mac’s, crashing their browsers and so on…
Likewise for pc’s (and maybe a bit more but that’s just because you have a wider variety of configurations for windows based laptop’s).

It’s actually really simple and you could compare it to humans: the more crack you use the worse you’ll get.
– Don’t click on things you don’t know <=> you don’t eat things you think could contain a virus
– Don’t use cracked software (I know, it’s really hard not to) <=> I advise you not to use crack
– Don’t use your laptop for everything and if you do keep in mind that the more you’ll make your laptop work, the more load you’ll give: the more services it will keep running and the slower it will get <=> Try working 24h/24h
🙂

and so on

To give you an example: my desktop is always clean, the only programs running are the ones I use, I don’t have programs installed that I never use, I make sure I have enough space left on my SSD etc… (I did the same with my windows laptops: I never used an antivirus or firewall cause I really didn’t need it)

I also think that almost every laptop is replaceable after 4 years (mac and windows)

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The os is different and works different, you have to know that windows gives you more tweaking possibility’s and thus gives you more to go wrong…

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If you do want to use it for everything (like using it to flatten your pizza dough) just know that in the end both systems will fail (and knowing that windows is more vulnerable due to the fact it was/is more represented it might be it’ll fail faster…)

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Besides that, and without being pro apple (I wish I could buy everything for 1€ and think the Iphone is overpriced for it’s specs), I really like how my Mac works.