What’s the most important features to look for on a new laptop
I have an Acer laptop at the minute, and i find it works well with traktor. But my other laptop broke and im due to get it replaced anytime now, so i want to know which features do i need to really look at more than others, i know i want one with at least 4g ddr3 ram, and the higher the processor speed the better, i reckon il have a budget of around £500 to spend so no macbook pro for me lol..so hit me with your recomendations guys, this new laptop will solely be for traktor. Also if ive registered traktor already on this laptop, will i be able to put it on my new one too? or will i have to cantact NI and inform them? also i want maybe a 500gb hard drive to eliminate having to use an external hard drive, and i feel 500gb would be plenty…
For Traktor, any average laptop will do, as far as CPU power is concerned. RAM: my guess is that 2 Gigs would be enough. More RAM can’t hurt, and it’s cheap.
What’s most important in my opinion is: Get something rugged. Any laptop that has something even slightly flimsy to it will break sooner or later, and chances are it will happen before or at a gig.
I guess this is probably out of reach for now, but I also highly recommend to save some money for an SSD drive. Not so much for speed reasons, but because they’re more or less vibration-resistant. It happened to me once that a DJ booth that was set up on a group of stage elements was vibrating so hard from the bass that the HD actually crapped out. Turntables were jumping all over the place, the only thing that worked reliably was the CDJs. Not a nice experience.
As far as the Traktor license is concerned, as far as I know you can install and register it on two computers, but you might want to contact NI anyway so they can delete the registration for the old computer.
As far as I am concerned it just takes a snapshot of a Device ID unique to your computer. Whether they encrypt it or not is beyond me, but I doubt there are any DJ/Hackers so I am willing to bet they dont. Try opening the offline registration file, or .nfg or whatever, with a binary decompiler and reading what it says. I am willing to bet I am write. In which case you can just copy and paste your device ID into the required field, upload, and then activate.
I have on of these. I got a refurbed Mini 10v from Dell for 220.00 and the Snow Leopard disk was 30 bucks. For 250.00 I have a neat little portable Macbook and Traktor Pro runs on it with NO issues at all. I’ve done a 4 hour set with it. Only downisde is that it takes a while to analyze tracks.
Haha just round the corner then, i think or would have thought a 13" one would be too small, id prefer at least a 15" screen tbh. im looking at macbook pro’s on ebay but its a lot of money to spend on summat 2nd hand that could fook up on me in a month or so lol… do u gig anywhere around here then? or is it just a hobbie dj’ing?
Just a hobby to be honest man, bedroom DJ at the min.
About the screen size though, I think a lot of people on here get on with Traktor fine on a 13", I know what your sayin’ though I went for the 15" but when I see me mates 13 it looks perfect. Kinda wishin I went for the smaller size.
i shall watch that one then see how it goes, i used to dj in town here, ive done Breeze bar, Brannigans (helping out) tiger 2 and did Mr Smiths for a year on a sat night, also worked in macauleys in bolton for about a year 2…just a hobbie for now again tho, just gettin back into it all after a few years away from it all…gone all digital now tho
