just ordered my first mac! how do i get ready?

[keeb]

First, go to Apple's website and look for the "Find out how" videos (http://www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/). They're a good way to transition over, especially if you have a fair background in Windows. Also, if you have external storage (flash drives, USB, etc.) you need to have a look at what format you want them in. If you're just using them with OS X, leave them HFS+. If you're using them with OS X and Windows, you can either download third party software to let you use NTFS or HFS+ on both machines (which has some reliability issues) or you can format as FAT32 which lets you read and write from both OS's easily but has a max file size of 4GB or so.

As a bunch of the people in here have said though, not much tweaking is required. I practice DJing with 15 tabs open in firefox, my wireless card on, outlook and 6 or 7 other programs running as well as Ableton for recording... And the mac handles it fine. On my Windows laptop if I even had my wireless card running it could cause audio dropout issues. Welcome to Lazy Island. We're glad to have you.

[keeb]

Ok a genuine tip:

Shift + CMD + R = show in finder in itunes for drag into traktor.

Find i need that a fair bit

You can't drag direct from itunes in traktor/serato on a mac like you can on a PC.

My one mac gripe

Why not just use the itunes file tree in Traktor...?

[MaxOne]

Why not just use the itunes file tree in Traktor...?

I do mostly but I listen to and organise my music in iTunes. Also I like the artwork and just find iTunes easier to browse sometimes. Often I see a tune in my iTunes and want to drag it into traktor... The shortcut helps

[keeb]

Fair enough. I just wouldn't want to be swapping back and forth between the two during a set.

[Karlos Santos]

Its not an issue. I browse some playlists in iTunes rather than Traktor cus i know my iTunes really well and i hate having the Traktor Browser tree open for like 9 miles long.

Also, at my Top 40 gig i sometimes buy tunes from iTunes and refresh the iTunes node to import them. Yes i do this mid-gig. Never had an issue.:eek: