Laptop

[simo]

Hey guys any advice would be great:

I am about to buy a new laptop. The only thing I need this laptop for is:

- internet for buying my music

- I tunes

- a good burner to make cd's

- run reason 4.0

- use a midi keyboard

So pretty much it will be only a djing laptop. I have a external hard drive where i store all my music. If I get some money I might get Serato to use live. Any ideas on what I would need. Im looking to only spend around $1000, is this possible or do I need to spend more.

Thanks

[Cupe]

you just need a basic laptop.

get an external soundcard and spend big on that.

[simo]

Thanks mate, any idea on what is a good external soundcard? brands?

[Cupe]

nah, i don't have any tech knowledge with external soundcards, sorry.

someone else will though

[wazza]

here in OZ you could get a ASUS Eee PC & a mixvibes pac

( comes with 4 in-puts & 4 out-puts USB sound card + mixvibes DVS software + 2 v2b time code vinly & time code C.D's )

all for about $1000 if you shop around

Here a vid off how good mixvibes works with the Eee PC

http://www.mixvibes.com/site/pageeng/pa ... demo_eeepc

[DjDennis]

wazza and you use a eeepc lol I wouldnt even give it to a 7yo

its a 4/10 rating

keyboard is small

the screen is small

runs on linux (limited on what you do)

there is no DVD burner

there is no actual Hard drive (only a flash solid state drive 4GB

dont you look at what people say ...

no thanks

and using a laptop just for music then DONT use it for anything else

either buy something that is decent and LOTS more in price or buy a desktop

all you will do is slow the whole system down

have a nice day

[CBG]

If you plan to buy a laptop thats gunna run Reason 4.0, and serato..1.9. your gunna need some processing power. Gd luck getting that for under $1000. And ur gunna need a decent audio interface. Probably with MIDI in, cus laptops dont have that many USBs.

As dennis said, big dollars need to spent if you want all this in a laptop form...

[CBG]

If you plan to buy a laptop thats gunna run Reason 4.0, and serato..1.9. your gunna need some processing power. Gd luck getting that for under $1000. And ur gunna need a decent audio interface. Probably with MIDI in, cus laptops dont have that many USBs.

As dennis said, big dollars need to spent if you want all this in a laptop form...