How many DJs use windows?

[MrPopinjay]

used windows for years the got a macbook. cant believe i didn't switch sooner.

What about a mac really does it for you?

[calgarc]

So just out of interest, other than the HP envy and sony vio, what other window based laptops do people recommend? I've heard good things about IBM thinkpads, I used to have one and there pretty much indestructible.

Toshiba laptops are amazing for audio. my quad core Toshiba is able to run 50 tracks of ableton without breaking a sweat, also they seem to ground their motherboard properly so i get no noise or hiss coming out my monitors. they are also fairly cheap, i think i paid 600 for mine which came with a 1.6 amd quad 500gb hdd and 4 usb ports

[MrPopinjay]

some Toshiba laptops are amazing for audio.

FTFY.

Shouldn't generalise broski

[calgarc]

Fuck yeah linux! except I can't fucking work out how to get tf2 and diablo 2 working on my desktop. Oh well I guess I'll make use of the windows 7 licence I have as soon as I can find an install DVD.

go to winehq.org and check out your programs there, they will tell you how you can get it working, i also have tutorials and loads of data on ableton and cubase i put up there

[MrPopinjay]

Yeah I've done that and no one seems to have the same problems I've having. It's all a bit odd really. Doesn't matter though, I'm just waiting until I can get my hands on a windows dvd for my desktop. No point having a machine with a half decent graphics card and not using it.

[Grifff]

used windows for years the got a macbook. cant believe i didn't switch sooner.

I've used my mate's macbook a few times and it's convinced me to never get one haha, it used to irk me so much

[nem0nic]

Word thanks. Seems like a great, legit mac benefit imho.

So wait...

If ASIO is for Mac, it's advantage Mac. But if it's for Windows, it's still advantage Mac?

I smell a Mac user. If you don't know what the technology does, or what platform it runs on, how can you have a valid opinion either way?

[ellgieff]

So wait...

If ASIO is for Mac, it's advantage Mac. But if it's for Windows, it's still advantage Mac?

I smell a Mac user. If you don't know what the technology does, or what platform it runs on, how can you have a valid opinion either way?

I think you'll find he was meaning "ASIO is native on mac, but needs a thirdparty driver for Windows" in the first place.

Still not correct, but not having to run additional drivers in order to get low-level access to the audio hardware is an advantage to Macs.

*disclaimer* I run a Mac, now. I've used every version of windows since 3.11 (I even had a copy of 3.0). I've run various flavours of Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD. I build a proper keyboard for a ZX-81 in the early '80's. I've used a range of CBM machines from the Vic-20 all the way up to Amiga 2000's.

The only thing I've never done is fed a punch card directly into a mainframe (although until quite recently, some of my profession involved software that was running on a genuine old-school mainframe). I'm entitled to an opinion

[PartyMcFly]

Yeah OP, I'm not sure where they get all this money either.

Although iTunes kind of sucks for anything Traktor related on PC. If you're obsessed about making it work, it will though.

Bottom line for me is that my rig is at worst $500 cheaper for using a Windows 7 system. I don't do anything to it that will break Windows or botnet zombify my machine, and that pretty much gains me the same perceived benefits of using an Mac.

The industrial design and the feeling of inclusion in Apple userhood is lost to me because I have the sacred gnosis of not running Windows in idiotic ways. I'm also a graphic designer by day, not mad at all.

I'd hate to drop the kind of money Apple asks for their hardware and only use it for DJing in smoky clubs and house parties full of drunk strangers and flying beer. Maybe someday because I do like OSX for more than a few reasons.

[mSolace]

Use windows because all my music is on a NTFS drive and mounting a network drive on my mac to use in traktor caused problems. And I have so many devices I didn't trust a power hub ona 3 port mac vs a windows pc with 9 usb slots.

7ms setting on windows 7 pc btw

only problem I have is, windows doesn't always like my s3700 and messes up my pitch fader... and I hate Itunes and i wish i could delete it from my mac ^_^




edit:
brother in law runs windows on his mac (boot camp) and traktor inside windows that way.