How's the Windows Client Doing?

[MisterMoleyMole]

People are far to quick to blame windows for problems when most of the time it's some driver issue with some fancy feature a laptop has had added .... Just strip it back to bare essentials ... Dual boot or xp hardware profiles... I've got a dell latitude, You know the dell laptops that everyone seems to think you just can't run traktor on due to latency spikes .... Not on my watch! It runs fine apart from with the new vci mapping that's just doing far to much with on single button presses. That appears to be a fault with pro though as it's been ironed out in pro 2 apparently.

Basically if your not willing to put in some hard graft reading and tweaking you need to throw a bit more cash down and get yourself a mac but if you can spare time and effort then a windows pc with a half decent spec will do you well and cost quite a bit less.

Happy s4 buying!

[smiTTTen]

I could not have said it better myself.

I am still consistently stunned that people are prepared (and financially able) to dump a perfectly good Windows laptop and rush out an buy a Macbook over these issues. I am also sick to the back teeth of the "NI can't/don't/won't" BS that is perpetuated by individuals who patently have no clue.

I use a tri-boot machine with each boot running Win7. One for day-to-day, one for music/gfx production and one dedicated to Traktor. Each boot is optimized for the task at hand. One of the most common issues that people run into is the that fact they want their machine to do everything, school/work stuff, web, gaming, whatever. Trying to accomplish all those things means installing a large number of apps and drivers which compete for resources and often conflict with each other. Separating out the boots means you only install what's needed to the purpose.

Unfortunately people hear "dual-boot" and run for the hills because they think it's out of their skill-set but it's incredibly simple. It used to be a little more tricky back in the day but these days its an extra 5 five minutes telling Windows how to divide up the disk and the time taken to repeat the install process.

If you are in the market for a new machine, have only very basic PC skills and are going to use your next machine primarily for A/V - buy a Mac. You won't have to put the work in and the machine will work great for you. If however, you have a Windows machine that is in spec, have a couple of hours to spare, can read and follow directions - stick with it. You'll save a fortune!

Anyway, must go. We found a leaky tap in the bathroom so we are moving house.

[JonathanBlake]

@ Rhysk - Smitten's sticky on this forum is invaluable - he deserves a medal. Use it - it will save you HOURS of anguish and fortunes in tranquilizers.

@ MisterMoleyMole - well said - I totally concur.