Good Laptop for DJing/Producing

[lizzard187]

Im currently looking to purchase a laptop. Im trying to stay away from any apple products if possible. i know that may be hard when looking for something to support a lot of the stuff i want to do but basically im looking for something that can handle Traktor Pro, FL Studio, Reason 5, Ableton etc...... with out any hiccups in the system. Any suggestions would greatly be appreciated.


I found a article on Dj Tech Tools website would anyone agree with these specs?

1.) Buy a laptop with a powerful graphics engine and audio card. Most new laptops are equipped with graphics and audio that can comfortably handle DJing demands, but it is worth checking. You should be looking at a minimum of 256MB of dedicated graphics memory on the graphics card and a high-def audio card 2.0.

2.)Buy a machine with enough memory and a fast processor. Ideally, your processor speed should be 2.0 GHz or above, and you should be looking at 4GB of RAM

[dj c los]

well you can get alienware or a mac and run windows on it.

[Kreios]

Hi what is your budget?  Finding the right computer is my specialty!

But most important I would need to know how much your willing to spend as that will impact what you get!

[kievdog]

I think your #2 is more important- be sure you look at your software requirements

[tsmithou812]

I'm using a Toshiba Satellite with 4 gigs of ram and a 350 gig hard drive. I am running Vista, I didn't think this laptop would work, but I can say after 25 gigs I am still running without any problems at all. I am using VDJ 5 for now until I can afford VDJ7. I do have a 850 gig hard drive that only has about 50,000 songs on and no problems yet if that helps any.