Dazmax
I have VDJPRO installed on both a laptop (which i use at home) and a self built PC that I use for gigs.
My feeling is that you can put together a high spec pc baced system which is far more flexible than a laptop for less cash. Rack mounting industrial pc cases are available for as little as 75 pounds and you can put together a realy bomb proof machine. You dont need loads of USB stuff hanging of them and the upgrade/maintenance is easy. I also find that a lower spec of PC (ie 3Gig sinle core pentium with 1 gig DDR1)can easily out perform a Dual Core DDR2 based laptop, when running VDJ.
I have just upgraded my PC To a DualCore 2.66 with 4gig of DDR2 memory. I already had the case power supply drives and so on from my older machine. So I now have a higher spec machine for a fairly modest outlay. The only USB device I have is the Numark DMC2 all the hard drives and sound card are protected inside the case.
Lots of djs use laptop based systems, I am just interested as to what you guys find the benifits are.
Daz
My feeling is that you can put together a high spec pc baced system which is far more flexible than a laptop for less cash. Rack mounting industrial pc cases are available for as little as 75 pounds and you can put together a realy bomb proof machine. You dont need loads of USB stuff hanging of them and the upgrade/maintenance is easy. I also find that a lower spec of PC (ie 3Gig sinle core pentium with 1 gig DDR1)can easily out perform a Dual Core DDR2 based laptop, when running VDJ.
I have just upgraded my PC To a DualCore 2.66 with 4gig of DDR2 memory. I already had the case power supply drives and so on from my older machine. So I now have a higher spec machine for a fairly modest outlay. The only USB device I have is the Numark DMC2 all the hard drives and sound card are protected inside the case.
Lots of djs use laptop based systems, I am just interested as to what you guys find the benifits are.
Daz
Posté Mon 16 Jun 08 @ 12:18 am
lamont76
agreed with all you say. but the reason i still use laptops are because of their portability and ease of setup...
when i didnt have a lappy, i lugged my ONLY computer, an old dell pent. 4 with 760mb of ram... lol it worked FLAWLESSLY, better than my 2 yr old laptop single core with 1gb of ram. but the usefulness of the laptop just makes it my choice. If i had the time, resources, etc necessary to make a gig desktop box, i would....
but short on cash lol
when i didnt have a lappy, i lugged my ONLY computer, an old dell pent. 4 with 760mb of ram... lol it worked FLAWLESSLY, better than my 2 yr old laptop single core with 1gb of ram. but the usefulness of the laptop just makes it my choice. If i had the time, resources, etc necessary to make a gig desktop box, i would....
but short on cash lol
Posté Mon 16 Jun 08 @ 12:27 am
Dazmax
I hear ya on the cash issue. It realy dont grow on trees. If you had had some previous experience with the laptop you now use would you still have bought it for the portability factor?
I have a theory regarding USB. I found that music loaded more slowly when using the lapy with an axternal usb drive. I presume that this is down to the slower speed of the USB interface when compared with IDE or SATA2. So much of the reduction in performance is not because VDJ runs any slower but more because external USB devices simply cant feed the data into the software as quickly.
The PC i have built has motherboard connectors for hooking up external SATA2 devices. Have these appeared on laptops yet? If they have I think a considerable performance improvement in track loading speed would be noticed.
Daz
I have a theory regarding USB. I found that music loaded more slowly when using the lapy with an axternal usb drive. I presume that this is down to the slower speed of the USB interface when compared with IDE or SATA2. So much of the reduction in performance is not because VDJ runs any slower but more because external USB devices simply cant feed the data into the software as quickly.
The PC i have built has motherboard connectors for hooking up external SATA2 devices. Have these appeared on laptops yet? If they have I think a considerable performance improvement in track loading speed would be noticed.
Daz
Posté Mon 16 Jun 08 @ 1:04 am