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    Sounds like the reason i quit using Ubuntu and went back to wintel, ease of use, support and familiarity.

    Use what works best for you when everything else stacks up, but dont dismiss one system as more reliable/ better then any other. That gap/ advantage that Mac OS had in the past has rapidly been closed with the introduction of windows 7
    Again my only bone of contention is price point. If a similar spec Mac did the same job as the Thinkpad for around the same amount of cash then it would be a very tough choice indeed, and may come down purely to familiarity

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    removed my prior comments since no point arguing this on a thread that asked "that is a good laptop for djing" everyone has their poison and prefers what they can afford/ like... imo go with a mac
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    There is no harm in explaining WHY you like your choice DJAttacZ, it helps the OP form a more rounded judgement

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    Quote Originally Posted by U-31 View Post
    There is no harm in explaining WHY you like your choice DJAttacZ, it helps the OP form a more rounded judgement
    well in that case..
    macs just work.. best way to say it.. you dont need to "optimize" a mac to dj. open the box install the software and needed controller driver and start rocking the house.. that simple.. I have spent alot of time in studios and even interned for a summer on a music tour and never saw one pc.. everything was apple except for the one panisonic tuff book that was used to handle lighting.. the time machine feature is amazing if your comp were to break u can with in an hour have ur machine back up and running on another mac(granted u backed up frequently). notice how traktor has itunes integration built in and not ms media player.. use an iphone or ipad instant integration between all of them for contacts photos music and everything. plus if your spending a grand or more dont you want a machine that is visualy pleasing? as a dj i just want things to works and having not to worry about my laptop means i can focus on the music. the work flow is clean and easy to use and designed for a visual person(ie how when u minimize a page it leads your eye to its location, i personally hate messy desktops and being able to color code files to find them easily is nice. also the track pad is a very cool feature and guestures makes using the computer more like an ipad then ever before. swipe pinch scroll its all very intuitive.. there is also a mode that inverts the color so when im playing in a club insted of the bright screen i can make it black witch makes its less obnoxious when looking out over the dance floor.. i would defiantly go for a 13 inch if your using it to preform with its simple enough with the money saved to by an external display for home use.. 15 inches is just more then u want to carry around..
    Last edited by DJAttackZ; 01-12-2012 at 04:48 PM.
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    In 2008 I embarked on the digital DJ path. I purchased an ASUS gaming PC running XP for $1000. Macs were for fanboys and people who were blind to technology.

    In 2009, after a year of constant crashing and multiple sound card purchases because of dropouts, I bought an HP for $1200 and chalked up my mishaps to a bad build.

    In 2010, after a year of more of the same, I bought a 13" MBP for $1300. Since then I've tripled my gigging, I've never once had it crash during a set and that includes running WIFI during my gigs.

    That's all I know about my experience of PC vs. Mac.

    I cannot run WIFI on the PC while running Traktor, but I can on the MBP. This is important to me since I typically mix at bars.

    I plan on DJ'ing with the MBP for a very long time and I recommend them to everyone.

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    If I had to choose. Stear away from MAC since all your paying for is the Brand Name.

    You can get a 17" Asus with a great Soundcard, Video card, and tons of Ram fo that price.

    let's compare two laptops.

    Laptop #1

    13-inch: 2.8 GHz
    2.8GHz dual-core
    Intel Core i7
    4GB 1333MHz
    750GB 5400-rpm1
    Intel HD Graphics 3000
    Built-in battery (7 hours)2
    $1,499.00

    Laptop #2
    Intel Core i7-2670QM (2.2GHz) Processor
    12GB DDR3 Memory
    17.3" HD (1600 x 900) Display
    500GB 7200 RPM
    Nvidia GTX 560M 3G GDDR5 Graphics
    Blu-ray-enabled DVD±RW/CD-RW Drive
    802.11BGN and Bluetooth 3.0 Connectivity
    8 Cell Battery
    2.0M Pixel Webcam

    $1,300.00

    Laptop #1 is a Macbook Pro, Laptop#2 is the Asus G74SX.

    You get a faster HD, More than overkill memory, Lighyears ahead of the MAC replaceable Graphics card. Larger Screen size means better work space.

    With the Asus you can use it for more than just music since the graphics card is a monster. Gaming system hell yeah, Music production Hell yeah tons of memory on it. Film editing hell yeah graphics card and memory can handle realtime video effects.
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    Quote Originally Posted by hrtbrkd View Post
    Larger Screen size means better work space.
    Nope, larger screen size means less portability
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    Quote Originally Posted by U-31 View Post
    Sounds like the reason i quit using Ubuntu and went back to wintel, ease of use, support and familiarity.
    That makes literally no sense to me.

    I really don't get what you and people like nem0nic see in Windows. Maybe we do very different things with our computers, but I just plain don't understand how you get anything done. And it's not because I think Windows computers are always broken. I mean…the vas majority of the ones I've used in the past 8 years or so are, but they're also owned by government or corporate offices, and they don't have a clue what they're doing.

    Businessmen can break any piece of technology given enough time.

    Anyway…OS X with quicksilver and developer tools is just so damn fast to do anything that matters to me…linux with gnome-do is at least as good, but it can't run Pro Tools, Logic, Maschine, Traktor, Ableton, or SSL. Add in very good package managers to OS X with repositories almost as good as those for linux, and I don't see how people use Windows anymore.

    Does Windows have a better scripting language than batch yet? Does that even still work since they abandoned anything like a real shell?

    I was annoyed about having to javadoc some code last night for a project. I use vim and haven't found a plugin/script to generate the stubs like Elcipse and NetBeans do and mentioned it in passing to a friend that I was annoyed at having to choose between downloading an IDE that I hate or typing them in manually…and went to bed. The next morning, there was a perl script in my inbox waiting for me that generates the stubs. Apparently it took him like 20 minutes and cost me a beer the next time he's in town.

    It convinced me that I need to actually learn perl instead of relying on bash, but…that's half my point. Every Apple computer can run like 10 scripting languages as soon as you get it. When I got my first one, I copied most of my dotfiles off an old linux backup…and apart from a few small tweaks, things just worked. Despite switching from bash to zsh a couple years ago (thus having to re-write a crap ton of it), I'm still using a version of my .(bash|zsh)rc file that I started in 2004. I'm still using the exact .screenrc that I wrote in 2005.

    I'm such a fucking geek…I really don't get how people can stand Windows.

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    if youre used to windows or not, you CANNOT go wrong with a high spec windows laptop ! you could get a serious spec for half your budget !

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    Quote Originally Posted by hrtbrkd View Post
    If I had to choose. Stear away from MAC since all your paying for is the Brand Name.

    You can get a 17" Asus with a great Soundcard, Video card, and tons of Ram fo that price.

    let's compare two laptops.

    Laptop #1

    13-inch: 2.8 GHz
    2.8GHz dual-core
    Intel Core i7
    4GB 1333MHz
    750GB 5400-rpm1
    Intel HD Graphics 3000
    Built-in battery (7 hours)2
    $1,499.00

    Laptop #2
    Intel Core i7-2670QM (2.2GHz) Processor
    12GB DDR3 Memory
    17.3" HD (1600 x 900) Display
    500GB 7200 RPM
    Nvidia GTX 560M 3G GDDR5 Graphics
    Blu-ray-enabled DVD±RW/CD-RW Drive
    802.11BGN and Bluetooth 3.0 Connectivity
    8 Cell Battery
    2.0M Pixel Webcam

    $1,300.00

    Laptop #1 is a Macbook Pro, Laptop#2 is the Asus G74SX.

    You get a faster HD, More than overkill memory, Lighyears ahead of the MAC replaceable Graphics card. Larger Screen size means better work space.

    With the Asus you can use it for more than just music since the graphics card is a monster. Gaming system hell yeah, Music production Hell yeah tons of memory on it. Film editing hell yeah graphics card and memory can handle realtime video effects.
    this cracks me up.. how much does the asus weigh? like 10 lbs or something yea not something u can easily slip in a backpack to take with.. want to video edit.. how much EXTRA do u have to pay for decent softwear that is standard on the mac. and you see that little number one next to the hd spec on the mac u can select a 72k drive if u want to.. or buy one and do it your self.. 12gb of ram? ever think how much it cost them to put that in. maby what 10 cents more then 8gb.. google the costs of building a pc laptop vs a macbook..
    people seem to over look the fact that an apple can THE SECOND YOU TAKE THE LAPTOP OUT OF THE BOX has tons of great programs ready to use.. i will give it to windows if gaming is something u want from ur computer a mac is limited can still run most games but graphic heavy games not so much.. but thats why i have an xbox..

    Havok how about you give some specs your looking for in a laptop.. size weight battery life what besides djing you want to do with it(any current laptop can run djing softwear)
    Last edited by DJAttackZ; 01-12-2012 at 08:25 PM.
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