Let me pick your brain for a second.

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Let me pick your brain for a second.

I’m thinking about selling my beast of a gaming desktop and picking up a second laptop for a completely redundant gear setup.

I already plan on getting a second Itch controller around the middle of next month. So that would have me rolling up at a gig with 2 laptops, 2 controllers, 6 usb cables, 4 power strips.

Should I do it? I dont game as much as I used to, and honestly, any time I spent gaming, I now spend dj’ing since I decided to push hard with my dj career this year.

So whatcha think?

If you have any questions before you vote just post em here and I’ll answer honestly rather than argue with people I asked advice from (i personally hate it when people ask for advice then basically argue with you since they already made up their mind before making their advice post in the first place. god that drives me nuts)..

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can I just ask why you want to turn up at gigs with such a truckload of gear?

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Guessing the duals are simply for backup. Incase something goes wrong, he has some gear to jump straight back on the set with.

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I’m assuming the purchase of some kind of Ford F-450 is planned too :stuck_out_tongue:

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nah my current rig fits in 1 backpack. so really, it would just be 2 backpacks.

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Sumfin’ like this:

Sorry for going off topic Xtianw!

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You could get some kind of insane liquid cooled gaming laptop…

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i had one, battery life is absolutely terrible on those things.

im a huge fan of the hp envy series. fantastic build quality, great battery life. and really decent graphics.

my envy 14" has a 1 gig ati 5650 (with switchable intel graphics for battery life).

hard to beat for an 800 dollar laptop.

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I’m going to tastefully avoid the mac debate :stuck_out_tongue:

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+1 :slight_smile:

i’d say you keep the desktop and use it as a production workhorse

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please do.

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I can run osx whenever i want on this laptop. im a big huge advocate for hackintosh setups. much better value for your money imo.

800 dollars in an envy, 30 bucks for snow leopard, and you have a macbook pro youd literally need to spend twice as much for to get comparable specs from apple.

i dont have a problem with osx. its how much apple charges for hardware that grates me the wrong way.

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What about keeping the desktop and getting a netbook that’s capable of running Itch to get you through the gig? That with a “borrowed” midi fighter from your friendly neighborhood Mexican and any piece of gear could go south and you could still get through the gig. That is if you can map enough controls to play with Itch I really should study up on Ich a little more. And when I say netbook I don’t necessarily mean a netbook, but just a smaller laptop to save on weight and the amount of gear you’re carrying around.

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since theres no official mapping in itch for midi, you have to use bomes to trigger whats doable on the keyboard.

which is this list…

766×758 89.7 KB

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Envy Laptops are pretty sick.

What about rebuilding yer desktop into a rack-mounted dj rig?

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I hadnt considered that.

it would be a pretty huge rework though, considering its curently in a corsair case with water cooling. (just the cpu)

im also concerened it would overheat in a rack mount case with that video card in it.

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Well then I vote second laptop to have doubles and be redundant.

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…Something nice and big, so the water cooling fits…

Slap a touch screen on top and a vga router for multiple video outputs, you got the dopest dj pc in town. :smiley:

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I like this idea to.

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i was the same as you… till i bit the bullet and bought a i7 macbook pro (i got mine on sale, it was $2750 AUD got it for $2475 i think). dont know why i ever wasted so much time on pc laptops and their shitty build quality/terrible battery life.

part of the selling point for me tho was it was one of the only laptops i could find with an nvidia graphics card compatible with the cuda/mercury hardware rendering engine for adobe’s premiere pro cs5.

the mac’s were one of the only brands with nvidia’s period in retail chains that i could find. everyhting is either intel hd or ati.

i doubt i’ll ever go back to a pc manufacturer for my laptops.

i’ve had dell inspiron’s and a HP dv6 in the past. the HP felt like i was going to break it from day one. flimsy keys.. crappy plastic shell. the dells were like tanks - but horrendous unless plugged into the wall. they all died tho eventually (all had a lifespan of less than 2 years)