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Topic: Looking for recommendation on laptop choice

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HELP. I am about to make the switch full time to a laptop. Any recommendations on a reasonably priced yet fully capable of playing 5 hours a night 5 days a week. What to get, what to avoid. Mac v PC What say you? I am time coded CD with Numark AXIS 9s.
 
Inviato Wed 14 Nov 07 @ 9:35 am
What is your currency and what is your budget? There are a wide range of good laptops to buy, for different reasons. I bought an Alienware some time ago and I love it and use it for everything: programming, video production, audio production, djing, vjing, gaming & office. My wife bought a Dell XPS-1330 and its okay, good specs but cheaply built as is most dell machines (fortunatley alienware being bought by dell has not been affected yet by their de-engineering policy).

I have a Packard Bell for work which is decent, and I have excperience with Toshiba laptops which I rate very strongly as they are well built

But again, your budget is crucial to what you can buy.
 
I would recommend you to have a look at the Toshiba range. I've got a mid price Satellite pro, it's been good to me and they are built well, I would try and stay away from the cheaper Dell laptop's as I see alot of people writing on the forum who are having problems with them.

Have you considered Mac's yet. Went shopping with my girlfriend at the weekend, in one store they had a range of mac's out on display and they do look awesome, especially now you can run windows on them now, with their new Leopard OS.

Jimmy b


 
With all the Vista issues I keep hearing about, It looks like I'll need a Macbook and have XP SP2 installed. A guy at the Apple store says the best and fastest computer running windows is a Mac!
 
Yeah they've got this bootcamp program on where you can partion some of the harddrive off, so you can install windows OS on it. And then run windows off it

Good idea don't you think.

BTW some guys are abit touchy when you mention anything about Apple here, you might get jumped on. I did when I mentioned the Iphone

Jimmy b

 
Well I built my own with a compal barebone system since all the systems I compared were too expensive (plus I like tinkering).People cant believe my
1.83 Ghz Core2Duo with 2 gigs ram, 120g hard drive, fingerprint reader, webcam, Geforce 7600 video card (great if you into video mixing) wireless and bluetooth for about $1400.

I got mine from http://xoticpc.com/ but it is also available from http://powernotebooks.com/ this one is similar to mine. http://powernotebooks.com/configure.php?special=352

Btw dell now owns alienware but alienware uses clevo notebooks and you can find them all over slightly cheaper at other sellers sometimes under the sager brand.

 
jimmy b wrote :
I would recommend you to have a look at the Toshiba range. I've got a mid price Satellite pro, it's been good to me and they are built well, I would try and stay away from the cheaper Dell laptop's as I see alot of people writing on the forum who are having problems with them.

Have you considered Mac's yet. Went shopping with my girlfriend at the weekend, in one store they had a range of mac's out on display and they do look awesome, especially now you can run windows on them now, with their new Leopard OS.

Jimmy b




I have been using a mid grade toshiba for several months now and love it. NOT ONE ISSUE with the computer.
 
djtonyidol wrote :
With all the Vista issues I keep hearing about, It looks like I'll need a Macbook and have XP SP2 installed. A guy at the Apple store says the best and fastest computer running windows is a Mac!


That is correct djtonyidol (THREAD STARTER).

Here is PCWorld Magazine's article on that:

The fastest Windows Vista notebook we've tested this year is a Mac.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,136649-page,3-c,notebooks/article.html

Why buy a windows only computer when you can buy a Mac and run both 100% natively if you find you need to, all on a Mac? The question really becomes, do you need windows?

Do you need it for anything more than Office or VirtualDJ? Office Mac has always been available and soon we'll have VirtualDJ Mac as well. You'll probably find like so many others have that you don't need windows at all. Usually it's just Office that's needed and the psychological tie-in to microsoft windows is quickly being realized and overcome as people start coming to terms with the fact that although microsoft develops both, windows is NOT Office.

The MacBU at microsoft does an EXCELLENT job of developing Office Mac if that's all you need like 90+% of users, and Atomix will soon deliver the best digitaldj/turntablist software, VirtualDJ (Numark CUE), on the best OS, Mac OS X.


- VT ConQuest
(Visual Turntablist)


jimmy b wrote :
BTW some guys are abit touchy when you mention anything about Apple here, you might get jumped on. I did when I mentioned the Iphone

Jimmy b



Indeed, and completely uncalled for. An iPhone is NOT a Mac, and with almost half of the iPhone's international user base being windows users, that topic in NO WAY should have been moved to the Mac forums considering that it was not addressing "Mac issues" in any way, shape, or form... or had anything to do with VDJ Mac, CUE Mac, or Virtual Vinyl Mac. It was simply jimmy b's experience with a product that works with BOTH platforms.

Also, if a registered VDJ Pro user like this threads originator " djtonyidol" is asking for laptop advice and he himself has already stated that he is looking into both windows computers and Macs, then he should be able to hear both sides of that argument and advice in the GENERAL DISCUSSION forums.
 
I currently have a 2 year old dell, 2 gig ram and a single 1.6 ghz processor. I have not had a single problem once V5 came out. I can't do video with it, but that is why I ordered a duel 2.2ghz 4mb cache 800mhz FSB, 2 gig ram, 256meg video. I DJ 4 nights a week from 4 to 7 hours and it has never gave me a problem.


DJ Jimmy J
www.SubZerosounds.com
 
www.zepto.com
Cool, cheap and fast
 
This is an Italian Monster-Machines seller:
http://www.dpctech.net/

If they're excellent with games, why shouldn't they be good for "simpler" applications like VirtualDJ? ;-)
 
Aside from the brand and specs I would highly, highly reccomend you get the lightest and smallest laptop you can find (with decent specs).

I bought a 17" Dell, pimped out to the max because it was replacing my desktop PC, and 1 year on I am trying to get rid of it.

I use mine for gigging in Sydney and trust me man, the weight and the size makes all the difference when you have to lug it around town, and when you are looking for some precious real estate in the otherwise jam packed dj booth.

Personally I am looking at one of these: http://www.sagernotebook.com/product_customed.php?pid=22903

11.8" (w) x 8.7" (d) x 1" ~ 1.4" (h) and under 2 kgms, also so you can choose what specs you want so ideal I would say.

Only problem is I hear their customer support is crap so you take a risk with that. Still you'd be hard pressed to find another laptop that small and that fast for 1000 bux!
 
Not bad but I would not recommend a system with on board video this shares/steals memory from your ram and can create bottle necks if you plan to do a lot of video or karaoke.
 
The new dell latitude xt tablet is available on DEC 11. Don't know the price yet. This is a 12" tablet with a multi touch display that can handle 5 simultaneous inputs on the screen.
 
This is what i bought and i get alot of gigs all the time. I have a dell inspiron 1501 specs are AMD turion 64X2 at 2.0 ghz 2 gigs of ram and a 256 MB video card Radeon express 1150 i spent 629 plus tax and this machine has never frozen on me at all. I had windows vista and upgraded to Xp and i dont have any problems at all. Ive used my laptop at weddings, clubs, and private parties.. Next week i have 3 gigs and each gig will have crowds of 1200 plus people and i trust my machine to work flawless.
 
Hi Caliente123

How did you manage to upgrade to XP from Vista. I have tried everything to get rid of the damn thing only to find that my XP don't recognise the sata drive so had to reinstall Vista.
 
If the XP CD doesn't recognise the SATA controller and you can't get a floppy disk hooked up for the driver, then you can use nLite to modify the XP CD image to include the drivers :)
 


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