Which laptop do you use / recommend?
I’m in desperate need of a laptop as I can’t haul my tower to the club every week haha, it’s almost not worth it!
I was wondering laptops the lot of you prefer. Please note what hardware (i.e. VCI) and software you’re also using to DJ.
Macbook Pro 15.4" / 2.6 Ghz / 4 gig ram
Audio Kontrol 1
Remote SL 25
Turntable (ammobox soon! omgyay!)
Running Ableton.
Personally i’d say mac all the way, except you have to buy the software if your a pirate then probably not for you (although you can install bootcamp - parallels doesnt work so hot for audio stuff). Also MBP are fkn expensive ($4k). A macbook is easily enough for you, i got a MBP cos i’m a graphic designer. But i love mine, its sooo pretty.
Dell Inspiron E1505/ 2.8 Ghz/ 2 gig ram
X-session pro
M-Audio oxygen
Ableton live
I love my dell it works fine running ableton and all my effects. But I am thinking about upgrading to a mac book pro to use strictly for music. Cause I use my dell for school and also internet.
honestly bro, unless you need the 15.4" screen over the 13" dont spend extra $1500 to get a MBP, its not really worth it, a macbook can run everything musicwise sweet.
Alternatively Unless your really buying for the look..
Acer aspire 3110 1,6 Ghz,2Gb ram
Xponent
Traktor
the Acer is not realy good,the qality is a little bit less good.but it does the job realy well.
So i will in a few months change to an Toshiba satellite
CDuo 2.2/15.4/4GB/400/i hope with Xp
Just bought myself a
DELL VOSTRO 1000
German: Computer, Monitore und Technologielösungen | Dell Deutschland
US:
Computers, Monitors & Technology Solutions | Dell USA
(seems to be more expensive)
because they are really cheap at the moment and as someone said very stable. You can buy them cheaper as a Business, so the price is 329€ instead of 370€ (i bought the middle one).
I use a Dell, it works fine. Just take care of it. I have enough screen space for Traktor to be clear, and everything works fine. It doesn’t need to be a Mac, trust me.
my new Dell xps m1530 is only 1280x800 resolution. i’m so pissed.
so i’m selling it.
my old dell works fine still…that’s 1280x1024. i love small.
Get a macbook !!!
Best quality price ratio out there !
Powerfull, best OS, light, really portable, sexy, fast…plus tons of little extra that are soooo cool ( finger scrolling, huge trackpad, battery cable…)
As you were asking, here’s what i got
macbook 2 ghz, 2go ram
vestax vci
presonus firebox
Dude, buy your software! You get support, updates and documentation. It’s worth it.
Seriously, do it today.
(DJTT Editors: can we make a strong statement against cracked software on this site? I think it needs to be stated clearly and from the top.)
Macbook man!
Dell Inspiron 6400/2.0Ghz/2GB ram
2*XP5/UC-33e/BCD2000
Echo AudioFire 4
Traktor/VirtualDJ/Ableton Live(beginner)
everthing no problem.
hi orca, you should do a check on the native traktor forum for toshiba notebooks before you buy one as the have a few proplems with running traktor.
My backup notebook is an Acer 5050(amd turion 2ghz),
i originaly bought it for carrying around as it is small,light and very cheap, it ended being my main notebook i use for dj-ing, video production,graphics and performing live with my band.
Dell Inpiron 1720 - 2.5ghz 45nm Penryn - 4gb RAM - 1920 x 1200 17".
VCI-100 + Midi Keyboard.
Id highly recommend it.
As for software, thats up in the air at the moment as i am exploring some different possibilities 
Which midi keyboard?
Sony Vaio 1.8ghz, 2 Gig Ram,
MAudio 410 , Terratec 24Fw (BackUp)
Kontrol DJ 500, Maudio O2..
Thanks a lot for the advice i’ll check it!
it vould make me sad,this TOSHIBA is an excelent machine.
I had problems wit my motherboad and now is a problem vith the HD(i’m helples ewerything checked annd i still hawent found the exact problem).exept this i like it!it runs 1,5 years Djing,performing with my band 
,and homework…
i heard that toshiba is top quality but if it should not run good with the soft i use it would be a pity…
Dell E1505 2.0GHz 2G Ram XP SP2
Torq 1.04 Rewired into Ableton 6 / Xponent, Midi Keyboard, ect…
The Dell is pretty solid, has your normal PC quirks. I gig with it and do my normal daily tasks on it. Haven’t had a problem playing out with it. The next comp I buy will be a MAC Book, but that’ll probably be a long time down the road since the Dell has treated me very well thus far.
Mac All the Way!!
Hi guys, i use a :
2.4GHz macbook pro 15"
M-audio Firewire 410
Vestax VCI-100
Traktor 3.3
and if i want to, i add my trigger finger or 25 key midi keyboard.
In my opinion, all PC laptops no matter what brand you get are all the same. No matter what, even if you take extra steps to take care of it and call it your “DJ Only Laptop”, there will always be little glitches.
PC laptops just dont compare to Mac because mac is a whole new world. With a mac, You can Check your email, be online, DJ with Traktor, and even buy music on itunes all at the same time during a gig! its pretty crazy!
For sure on a PC youll get some kind of lag when trying to do those things. Trust me ive been a PC user for years and hated mac, but once i saw what mac could do, i switched over. I really did all the tweaks and made sure my dell laptop was running perfectly, but i would still be worried. But with a mac, i hardly worry about anything. i just make sure i have a backup in case something goes wrong.
as per my post on the Native-Instruments forum:
Asus F3SC
Traktor
BCD3000
[QUOTE]any laptop pc with some decent specs should work fine.
By decent specs i don’t just mean greater than the recommended requirements of traktor in the cpu/ram department.
I mean, dedicated video ram, decent mainboard chipset etc.
e.g. I have an Asus F3SC, this has a 2GHz core2duo, 2GB Ram, nVidia 8400M graphics with 128MB of dedicated video ram and the mainboard chipset is intels 965 express. It came with Windows Vista installed and on top of nvidias stupid turbo cache system ram allocation a fresh boot gave me about 600MB of ram free.
I formatted it to a nice clean XP install and was left with ~1.8GB of ram at my disposal.
By comparison a cheaper laptop would have an intel 945 chipset or worse with intel X3100 integrated graphics, stealing 128MB of system memory and slowing down the memory that was left for windows/traktor. While this is still sufficient, it’s not awesome and the difference it boiled down to for me was around $300 - and the cheaper option had 1GB of ram not 2.
With this setup i can keep key lock on constantly and run maximum time stretch quality and deck caching in traktor and have plenty of cpu/ram headroom.
It’s up to you what brands you prefer (based on your experience or others) or what is more available. I happen to work at a computer store and we stock mainly Asus, I purchased this particular model knowing there are XP drivers for every single component.
The above mentioned Dell M1530/1730 range would definitely be suited - even more so if you have the option of ordering it with windows XP. Vista is a waste of time and microsoft has basically acknowledged this themselves by pushing forward the next version of windows release date to 2009.[/QUOTE]
P.S. you mac fanboys are ridiculous.
I’m not saying macs are crap, i’m saying PCs aren’t