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    MOD EDIT: Original post is below this one.
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    Yes, I know, I've always been one of those 'you don't need a macbook to DJ' people, and have railed against people buying them when they only surfing the web, expecially when they use the 'but Macs don't get viruses' bullshit line, but recently I've been considering getting one as a gig laptop.

    Why? I still think they're fucking expensive for what they are, but recently I've had some hiccups with my PC laptop during gigs.

    To keep my DPC latency low, the ACPI Battery monitoring has to be turned off, as the driver causes some really bad popping issues - this has led to two occasions in the last year where I've been playing, and I've lost power and hence sound (largely caused by plugging my laptop into a non-working plug socket in a club - no indication that the socket doesn't work, and Traktor is indicating full power as the system battery monitoring is off)

    It's either a mac or someone recommending a PC where the latency is low enough without having to turn off battery monitoring.
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    just get a 13" or 15" mbp and call it a day.
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    Oh, and at the moment it'd probably be a secondhand mac, as my first kid is incoming - what's a reasonable minimum spec? A good mate of mine rocks Serato on a black macbook (so its virtually an antique in mac gearwhore terms ...)
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    oh and steve told me no major updates for the macbook pro line up for the next 9 months
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    Quote Originally Posted by JesC View Post
    oh and steve told me no major updates for the macbook pro line up for the next 9 months
    tbh - I'm more than happy with getting a slightly older one - the scottish heritage makes me loathe paying loads of money for something, so latest/greatest ain't necessary really ...
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    i would say get a re-rub from the apple 13" 2.4 ghz 4gb ram, they come with a 1 yr warranty
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    Last edited by photojojo; 05-11-2011 at 06:24 AM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MaxOne View Post
    it's posted my answer to the top of the thread!? wtf?
    completely threw me when i looked into this thread, i assumed i was on page 2 or something haha...
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    Quote Originally Posted by paulmac View Post
    completely threw me when i looked into this thread, i assumed i was on page 2 or something haha...
    haha me too!

    Sherlock, I'm sure you've read a few posts about it here and there but basically you don't want less than a 2GHz Dual core intel processor and more RAM is always better. Also, keep an eye on what the hard drive capacity is. You want to have space for everything! That said, it's pretty easy to swap in a new hard drive and they cost nothing these days.
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