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    Default Low Cost, High Performance, Traktor Stable HP Laptop

    Hey guys, just wanted to share an awesome setup I just stumbled onto.


    First I bought an HP ProBook 4320s, with the i5 450m proc, and 4 gigs of ram, and a 500 gb hdd.

    It has 4 usb, HDMI, eSATA, no firewire...

    I picked it up for $500 new in box from an ebay store, and if I knew then what I know now I would have gotten the least expensive build with the Celeron, and small hard drive.

    For $130 I bought the fastest processor you can get this model with (Core i7 620M). The laptop is a breeze to disassemble, and I replaced the processor. Then I bought two 4gb ddr3 sodimm's for $80 on ebay. And the new Samsung SSD with TRIM support, 120gb for $150.

    So now I have a Core i7, 8GB DDR 3, 120GB high performance SSD all for $860, and I could have gotten the $420 flavor of the laptop and done it for $780.

    If you can find a laptop out there with those specs for $800 please, let me in.


    And the reason I invested in all these upgrades, is it is the most stable PC laptop I have ever owned with Traktor. And I have gone though A LOT. I bought this one as an upgrade to my ProBook 5310m (it was also remarkably stable with Traktor) just for the new i-processor.

    What I mean by stable...

    41000hz at 1.5ms latency (not a measure of actually total system latency, just the setting in the audio 8 dj control panel)

    96000hz at 2ms latency!
    (don't even use it here, but I did a couple gigs and pretty close to 20 hours of testing to finally decide I really couldn't tell the difference with my mp3's)

    This is all with the 2.0.15 Audio 8 Driver, not the newest one that breaks stuff.

    I also use a Kontrol X1, and am about to add two DN-SC2000's, and the USB's hubs have been up to snuff.


    Not to be a flame war started....


    But an equivalent MacBook Pro, with that i7, 8GB of ram, and a 120GB SSD is like $2600!

    Thats over 3 times the price!!!!

    You cant honestly sit here and tell me thats you get 300% more performance for that dollar.
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    Nice one dude
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    Wow nice. Even though at the 500 point you were still pretty good but not a bad upgrade def!

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    do the celeron mobile and i7 620m share the same socket size do they?

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    Nice mate, thats something to think about for all the MBP advocates.
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    Quote Originally Posted by josh@firestorm View Post
    do the celeron mobile and i7 620m share the same socket size do they?
    I doubt it...the i7 is 4 cores....but dont quote me on that

    And nice review...I should do something like this with my hp..but idk if i trust my soundcard that much lol
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    Quote Originally Posted by exokinetic View Post
    Hey guys, just wanted to share an awesome setup I just stumbled onto.


    First I bought an HP ProBook 4320s, with the i5 450m proc, and 4 gigs of ram, and a 500 gb hdd.

    It has 4 usb, HDMI, eSATA, no firewire...

    I picked it up for $500 new in box from an ebay store, and if I knew then what I know now I would have gotten the least expensive build with the Celeron, and small hard drive.

    For $130 I bought the fastest processor you can get this model with (Core i7 620M). The laptop is a breeze to disassemble, and I replaced the processor. Then I bought two 4gb ddr3 sodimm's for $80 on ebay. And the new Samsung SSD with TRIM support, 120gb for $150.

    So now I have a Core i7, 8GB DDR 3, 120GB high performance SSD all for $860, and I could have gotten the $420 flavor of the laptop and done it for $780.

    If you can find a laptop out there with those specs for $800 please, let me in.


    And the reason I invested in all these upgrades, is it is the most stable PC laptop I have ever owned with Traktor. And I have gone though A LOT. I bought this one as an upgrade to my ProBook 5310m (it was also remarkably stable with Traktor) just for the new i-processor.

    What I mean by stable...

    41000hz at 1.5ms latency (not a measure of actually total system latency, just the setting in the audio 8 dj control panel)

    96000hz at 2ms latency!
    (don't even use it here, but I did a couple gigs and pretty close to 20 hours of testing to finally decide I really couldn't tell the difference with my mp3's)

    This is all with the 2.0.15 Audio 8 Driver, not the newest one that breaks stuff.

    I also use a Kontrol X1, and am about to add two DN-SC2000's, and the USB's hubs have been up to snuff.


    Not to be a flame war started....


    But an equivalent MacBook Pro, with that i7, 8GB of ram, and a 120GB SSD is like $2600!

    Thats over 3 times the price!!!!

    You cant honestly sit here and tell me thats you get 300% more performance for that dollar.
    thats quite rad dude, i thought i had it pretty good with my hp dv9000 that i got on the equivalent of craig's list here in canada lol. I've always been a little skeptic with trying to open up my laptop and messing around with the insides......

    do you have online resources or are you actually a trained tech?
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    I'm getting very stable performance out of a gateway craptop with 2gb ram (maxed out), a dual 1.4 ghz processor, a 5400 rpm hdd and vista sp2. I have to stop some bad drivers from running to get it stable in traktor but that's about it. Just more evidence that spending g's on a macbook is wholly unnecessary.... but if you're a tech savvy person you already knew that. Why pay more for the same hardware?
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    Quote Originally Posted by exokinetic View Post
    I also use a Kontrol X1, and am about to add two DN-SC2000's, and the USB's hubs have been up to snuff.
    Nice find but good luck with that. I say so because LED feedback on the Denons cause all kinds of crackle/pops on Windows systems, especially when changing FX. Actually too much LED feedback/MIDI data sent to devices causes all sorts of problems on Windows.

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    as a mac fanboy i agree 1stly you got a top deal, and yes maybe the equivalent mac isnt 300% better , but i run a macbook 13" 2009 i picked up new for £599 and with a £50 ram upgrade its got 4gb, i think thats better value for money , its just the reliability of the system , i was constantly scared playing out on a windows pc
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