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Good choice on Dell, I purchased a Dell Studio 15 laptop with i5 2.93ghz and 4gig of ram, just waiting for it to be delivered. Also has an ATI 5470 with 1gb on it. Should be good enough to run VDJ on Win7, and only cost me bout 700 euros. Great value for money!
 
I bought a dell studio 1557, for half the price of a macbook pro and twice as good hardware! Don't give into the hype, just because it has a fancy OS and an apple badge on the back doesn't make it better. Granted, build quality is not so good on the Dell as my friends (flimsy lid, and it's plastic not aluminium which granted is very nice). However, in terms of hardware the Dell will outlast the Macbook. Besides, you can install snow leopard on these things if you're willing to do a bit of tinkering....
 
Tinnymin wrote :
However, in terms of hardware the Dell will outlast the Macbook.


Dell will NOT outlast the Macbook. Macbook has far better components which work well together. USB and Firewire speed on Macbook (which is much needed for DJ applications) will outperform any pc.

It's not the OS that makes it better (I run Windows on it) its the components.

You guys think you are saving money buying cheap laptops. You are not.
 
For me personally based on the venues where I play I would never buy a super expensive computer be it a Mac, Alienware or a Commodore 64 with TURBO BOOST. If I worked in a hermetically sealed glass booth with (2) bouncers and a MACK-10 for protection then perhaps. My peeps have access to ME and unfortunately close quarters to my machine. If some drunk fool takes out my machine it will hopefully be cheap enough their Visa card can handle the replacement.

(My computers have no bloatware nor virus protection, no need for EITHER.

:^)
 
I personally like the MacBook Pro and found it to be perfect for me. I think based on experience on having toshiba laptop and using virtual dj pro on it I had to configure more thing on it than my MacBook Pro. These are just experience on what I felt that MacBook Pro satisfied what I was looking for and I just have better luck with the Mac.
 
djfilosoff wrote :
Tinnymin wrote :
However, in terms of hardware the Dell will outlast the Macbook.


Dell will NOT outlast the Macbook. Macbook has far better components which work well together. USB and Firewire speed on Macbook (which is much needed for DJ applications) will outperform any pc.

It's not the OS that makes it better (I run Windows on it) its the components.

You guys think you are saving money buying cheap laptops. You are not.


These days manufacturers like Dell can't afford to use cheap hardware. Their laptops come with eSata, Firewire and SUB. My Last Dell notebook lasted me 8 years. And with todays specs of laptops, I bet money on it that a Mac won't outperform a pc.
 
I tried to stayout of this, but here is my 10 cents.
The main reason in the past(remember I said past) for the lack of Mac Virus is what hacker, writer would go after something with so few using. What claim to fame is that. Well here we are 2010 and I see more and more security updates for a Mac. All Mac users can thank the iphone (and now ipad)for this. Now the hackers have a target and I believe there will be more for the Mac than the pc soon enough.
Yes I have an imac, which does crash and freeze and thats using for what a Mac is made for Graphics, and I did buy internet security.
The reason the anti-virus for windows is a system hog is people use Norton/Mcafee. STOP get AVG.
 
Hi Chuck. yes i've got a Dell Inspiron and its great. nice and simple with a good screen thats plenty bigger than a net book or sumat like that. got it for only 200 ov your earth pounds and i'm well happy with it. hope ya new Dell fits the bill.

XXX
 
 
i have a macbook pro 13 inch, bootcamped with windows XP professional.
I bought it for quality and rugged components, battery life... and looks :)
But it's also the most stable and reliable configuration I have ever used.
Neither Windows OR Virtual DJ have EVER crashed, or even hicupped. It runs like a dream.
And because I know Windows XP backwards (as you should after so long), when I'm playing out and plugging into different types of controllers, I feel confident to know exactly what to do if something isn't working the way it should.

For the record, I did initially install Virtual DJ on the Mac OS first.
The wave display was jittery, there was some crap about agreggate devices; plus very little forum interaction compared to the Windows version.
And I was like..... nup. And put my XP Install CD in :)
 
oooh errr misses, i love the blue laptop wth the sexy, curvy screen(in the 2nd from above link)... very... eergonomic...!
and quite girly too.
xxx
 
Personally, I'm waiting to see what this works like....
 
 


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