crundyy Posted July 14, 2011 Posted July 14, 2011 Alryte boys, when i get my tax moneys (hopefully around $1800) im gona try buy myself a laptop/serato) all i want/need is a laptop that will ONLY run serato so i dont need some fancy $10,000 soldios mac supercomputer Quote
crundyy Posted July 14, 2011 Author Posted July 14, 2011 also, can a man hook serato up with this mixer????http://www.stantondj.com/stanton-mixers/sa3.html Quote
CapFive Posted July 14, 2011 Posted July 14, 2011 Ill recommend some good lappys for you tomorrow crunds... not sure about the mixer though, I don't see any USB ports to controll serato with Quote
crundyy Posted July 14, 2011 Author Posted July 14, 2011 cheers bruz! im pretty i can hooke that mixer up with serato cos that mixer was my mates n he did it,, ill wait n see, i wouldnt mind getting anew mixer. Quote
Jaz Posted July 14, 2011 Posted July 14, 2011 i think most people will say mac...but if your going to use it for serato and music storage only...just get something with a good hard drive and mad Ram Quote
SolDios Posted July 14, 2011 Posted July 14, 2011 Yeh get a mac pro 13"good thing about em is that you know when you press the power button, you know there going to turn on! Quote
imadje Posted July 14, 2011 Posted July 14, 2011 i been running itch in a macbook pro i got from refurb store. Been nealry a month now and it;s rock solid and reliable.did your mate run serato with the sa3 by using a seperate serato soundcard/interface? Quote
wazza Posted July 14, 2011 Posted July 14, 2011 I'm running serato + Ableton on a hp dv6 ...i5 with 4 gig off ram...4 midi devices , 2 for serato & 2 for ableton 2 gig video card with HDMI & VGA video outputs ....video mixing with vsl is verygoodpayed $1400 at the start off the year ...pick them up now for about $995 Quote
fackedd Posted July 14, 2011 Posted July 14, 2011 if your budget is $1800 deffs get a mac, if under $1000 get a pc.I've got a pc because i only allocated around $700 to it. Quote
CapFive Posted July 14, 2011 Posted July 14, 2011 http://store.apple.com/au/product/FC724 ... jIwMTAxNjcRefurbished MacBook Pro 2.7GHz dual-core Intel i7 - $ 1,449.00 (link won't embed...)this is a refurb, but apple are notorious for as new refurbs, the machines run perfectly come with warranty etc..Originally released February 201113.3-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen display, 1280-by-800 resolution4GB (2 x 2GB) of 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM500GB Serial ATA @ 5400 rpmIntel HD Graphics 3000 with 384MB of DDR3 SDRAMbut with the money you have...if you were to go PCHP PAVILION 15" NOTEBOOK - $ 1,497.00This thing is a beast, HP are a good brand and it's got a bit of a leg up on the mac as far as ram and HDD go... 2nd Generation Intel Core i7-2630qm 2.0ghz With Turbo Boost Up To 2.9 GHz CPU 1GB Graphics Memory ATI Radeon HD 6770M with 1GB Dedicated Grahpics 750 GB HDD 8 GB RAM 15 Inch Screenit's a hard one bro, the mac's are meant to run more efficently, because the OS is much cleaner... but with that said, if you haven't used one, they can be confusing, long run i would prolly say the mac, but the PC has higher specs... and windows will get more efficent as time goes on... plus bigger hard drive on the PC... Quote
eggssell Posted July 15, 2011 Posted July 15, 2011 crunds, you can hook any mixer up with serato. the rane box plugs into your lappy and is in essence the sound card. then you just plug your mixer outs into the sound card Quote
lloydc Posted July 15, 2011 Posted July 15, 2011 mac or bust, no driver issues, no fuss^thisand those mixers are supposed to be mad scratch mixers Quote
eggssell Posted July 15, 2011 Posted July 15, 2011 mac or bust, no driver issues, no fuss? really. didnt the issue of driver issues disapper with windows 98? other then updating firmware (which i know essentially has the driver in there, which is mainly plug & play anyway) i dont think ive heard of a driver issue since i bought a desktop back in 2001 where a video camera i had said it wasnt compatible with my win 98 OS, and i just hit OK on every pop up and it still worked fine. Quote
Gandy Posted July 15, 2011 Posted July 15, 2011 mac or bust, no driver issues, no fuss? really. didnt the issue of driver issues disapper with windows 98? other then updating firmware (which i know essentially has the driver in there, which is mainly plug & play anyway) i dont think ive heard of a driver issue since i bought a desktop back in 2001 where a video camera i had said it wasnt compatible with my win 98 OS, and i just hit OK on every pop up and it still worked fine.still have the issues bro, for non tech heads macs are just easier, plus they're the industry standard Quote
CapFive Posted July 15, 2011 Posted July 15, 2011 ^ this is true, PC's are ok if you know you way around all the little things, MAC's just... work Quote
fackedd Posted July 15, 2011 Posted July 15, 2011 yo cap I think those i7's are bit overkill lol, especially for serato.i5 laptop either pc or mac with 4gbs of ram is way more than enough.dont forget people were running traktor and serato years ago on min spec shitty laptops (compared to the ones out now) and it's been working fine. Quote
fackedd Posted July 15, 2011 Posted July 15, 2011 yeah good point, guess that's what it comes down too lol. Quote
lloydc Posted July 15, 2011 Posted July 15, 2011 yea but he has $1800 to spend i think he meant $1800 including the serato Quote
crundyy Posted July 15, 2011 Author Posted July 15, 2011 all up ill hopefully have around 1800 maybe more. Quote
CapFive Posted July 15, 2011 Posted July 15, 2011 how much is serato? so i can budget accordingly Quote
crundyy Posted July 15, 2011 Author Posted July 15, 2011 http://www.djwarehouse.com.au/shop-by-brand/serato.html Quote
wazza Posted July 15, 2011 Posted July 15, 2011 Grandy is right ....but he only has 1800.not $2500serato sl2 new $550 + Stanton mixer new $250 + new inno cross-fader $220 (the crossfader will shit itself after 4 weeks off hard scratch on that mixer ) & a mac book pro $1300...thats $2000 +or you can go Rane serato ttm 57sl mixer new for $1300 & a cheep ASUS i3 with 2 gig off ram nw for $ 695thats under +$2000and a way better set-uphave been testing this cheep ASUS i3 & it works good ...it will not run the TTM 57 & my dicers at the same time ....but works good & stable with just the serato mixer Quote
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