Hey guys, in a few weeks i will get a new laptop for school, and i thought ‘why not also a dj laptop’. The school laptop is for computer science study and won’t be cheap, but i’m not sure about the DJ laptop.
Is it possible to get Traktro Pro 2 (no DVS, yes MIDI, maybe external mixing) running on a laptop around €300/€350? Which one do you recommend? I wil ONLY use it for DJ’ing, no producing. But i do want a NEW laptop, not something from ebay.
Sorry for another laptop question, but i really am lost in the world of laptops .
really if you can afford a second hand macbook you wont disapointed, but it is more than easy to find a few well know brand laptops that meet the specs. remember, google is you best friend
I’d never use a cheapskate laptop for gig’ing. You’ll find one that can run TP2 no doubt about it, but you can’t really expect something durable for that kind of money. And stability should be your #1 priority.
Either buy something you can rely on, or save up some money to buy it later. I’d target for the €500-zone if I were you (and do your homework, because most of the laptops in that price range are still utter junk).
Oh, and if you’re not taking it out of your bedroom, I don’t see the point in buying a separate laptop?
Thanks for the specs .
I’m not buying an 1200 euro MacBook, then i’ll rather buy an 1200 euro laptop .
And i am getting some more gigs lately, and my old Dell laptop really begins to fail me (huge latency). Which brands, beside Apple, do you think makes good laptops? I know i shouldnt go for packard bell. Acer has a bad name around here. But i hear lots of diffetent things about HP and Sony, some seem to think they make good laptops, others say the laptops are crap. I know MSI and Asus make good laptop but they are a bit pricey. And i also heard Dell is kinda crappy. But i really don’t know :s
I use a lenovo and i’d highly recommend it. it’s 4 years old and still runs perfectly. Core2duo 2.0ghz with 2gigs of ram and it runs traktor pro with midi perfectly (although it’s not good enough for traktor scratch). i’m sure you can get a much faster system nowadays for a fair price.
nah, just kidding, i’m simply from a mac family. i’m quiting interested in making a hackintosh though; it’d be interesting to see how it (hackintosh with specs around 2.4ghz, 2/4gig ddr2 ram, 250gigHD) would deal with traktor in comparison to my mac mini 2.4ghz.
Those laptops are not intended to make a hackintosh, there are others lying around!. the beat has two outs and traktor recognises them, so one to the speakers , 1 for cue. the outs are also loud enogh. xtianw has one.
The mid- to high-range Dells (I’m talking Latitude and XPS mainly, Vostro is okay too!) and ASUS models are good.
Whatever you do, don’t buy Sony Vaio’s, they’re crap and cost way too much. Acer isn’t DJ stuff either.
Lenovo used to be highly reliable too, but apparently they’ve worsened (although they are undoubtedly still in the top tier)
I’d say get an Dell, Asus or lenovo that meet the requirements. I am using a Dell XPS 16 but have also run traktor + live on a machine I built for about 300$ US. If you clean out unnecessary services you’ll be fine. Try running game booster on your pc, it will make traktor run great.
I’m currently looking at the XPS 15z or an HP ENVY. HP should have great deals on the 14" Envy right now because the line is expected a refresh and they need to clear stock. If you read the forums at notebookreview.com you will find awesome deals for the 14"–maybe around 750USD(!). Plus I believe you may still get one with the i5 and reduce your chances of heating issues.
I’m debating getting a 17" version Envy or the 15z since i’m traveling a lot now and need a desktop replacement. For a dedicated DJ laptop the 14 would do fine though.
Good luck and don’t skimp.
i wasn’t planning on using that particular laptop for a hackint0sh, but build something from scratch myself. the fourth post was quite interesting, but at the end of the day it’s down to the OS which i know and love. i still use windows because in a lot of cases, windows provide an application that mac simply doesn’t have a decent alternative. although this kind of situation is becoming less apparent more and more.
however the mac OS has always made so much more sense to me than windows xp, vista and 7, and probably 8. and if i can build a budget (but decent) hackint0sh, then that provide a viable solution for me as a skint student.
you can only legitimatly dual boot macs, buying a windows machine and trying to boot it with osx is possible, but it will take a lot of effort as you’ll have to find custom drivers for things like wifi, bluetooth, speakers etc. but its not imposible.
Haha i did not say i would buy a mac (a). I really think those laptops are over priced . I probably will make the laptop dual bootable and make one version very clean (one user, only high priority drivers, etc)
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