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ittigger said:
Do it! Don't think about it, just do it!
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I'm in a stretch of 10 days with 5 events right now... just trying to keep my head above water. I'll re-evaluate when I get through it.

But my other goal which will take a bit of time is to use the opportunity to reallllllly clean up my library. I normally just copy the old machine to the new one. But after several generations of that, I've got a lot of junk floating around on my DJ machine. I want a clean build where I only transfer Mp3 files into a single flat folder and then rebuild the Serato library from there.

It can certainly be done, but isn't an overnight project.
 
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ittigger said:
I've been watching these also - it's a new 'gizmo' / feature. While it is cool looking, I'm not sure it'll gain traction among normal users. Also, the difference in screen sizes may eventually cause driver issues and while the size difference may be a minimal hit, it is an increased load on the system itself.
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Now you should know I don’t want things normal users want, lol. Most are coming in looking for the cheapest. I had one guy me if a $99 Celeron powered laptop was good for video editing. After I picked myself up off the floor I tried to formulate a answer. The newer Intel powered laptop can do up to 4 displays. My wife setup with 3 displays now. I have my son doing all the IT work in the house since computers is his thing now. I have to ask ASUS how they have the video configured. I Probably find out at CES next year. This year even Intel wasn’t at CES, along with a bunch of other major manufacturers. But BMW was there and I got a chance to drive one of new EVs, almost didn’t want to return it. But I’m sure they had the tracking on so just a extra lap.
 
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Albatross said:
I'm in a stretch of 10 days with 5 events right now... just trying to keep my head above water. I'll re-evaluate when I get through it.

But my other goal which will take a bit of time is to use the opportunity to reallllllly clean up my library. I normally just copy the old machine to the new one. But after several generations of that, I've got a lot of junk floating around on my DJ machine. I want a clean build where I only transfer Mp3 files into a single flat folder and then rebuild the Serato library from there.

It can certainly be done, but isn't an overnight project.
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Totally tracking. I painstakingly went through my library in the not too distant past.
 
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adj2ent said:
Now you should know I don’t want things normal users want, lol. Most are coming in looking for the cheapest. I had one guy me if a $99 Celeron powered laptop was good for video editing. After I picked myself up off the floor I tried to formulate a answer. The newer Intel powered laptop can do up to 4 displays. My wife setup with 3 displays now. I have my son doing all the IT work in the house since computers is his thing now. I have to ask ASUS how they have the video configured. I Probably find out at CES next year. This year even Intel wasn’t at CES, along with a bunch of other major manufacturers. But BMW was there and I got a chance to drive one of new EVs, almost didn’t want to return it. But I’m sure they had the tracking on so just a extra lap.
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Likewise, I'm not looking for the cheapest. While some laptops 'can' power up to 4 displays, unless these are dedicated video cards, you're really making that machine work. Additionally, if these screens are at different resolutions, it has to work harder yet. People think screens are not a big load - but the system has to draw and refresh that screen constantly - and that can be work. For multi monitor (more than the lid screen +1 external), desktops are really where you should be - for the amount of cooling and space that they offer. Additionally, you will get MUCH more out of a desktop performance GPU's than a laptop performance GPU. Also, you have room for expansion and upgrading. Other than memory and hard drive, laptops can't be upgraded.
 
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ittigger said:
Totally tracking. I painstakingly went through my library in the not too distant past.
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Me too. Transferred all the files went through them one by one re-tagged and re-typed a bunch of them. Picking at it it took me close to three months
 
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JP_HTX said:
I'm still rocking a 2012 MacBook Pro. Last of the Mohicans... lol....
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Still using a 2007 Dell. Bought 2 new ones this year it's still my weapon of choice
 
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My XPS15 had started having some issues so decided to pickup a Apple MacBook Pro M1 today. Got the 14in, with 1TB, and 32gb of ram.
 
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i was browsing overclockersUK the other day trying to prove to my support staff there are some impressivly expensive laptops available,and i fell in love with a £30,000 laptop. sorry i cant remember the spec but obviously as you woud expect with that price it was kitted out with water cooling,RGB lighting, multiple GPUs that have been overclocked, the CPU massively overclocked etc,huge RAM etc. its basicaly future proofed for a long while at least.

i bought my current laptop in 2021, sorry not sure what it is in dollars but it was £950 off ASUS via amazon. its gotr a ryzen 7 4000 series CPU,2 graphics cards-1 dedicated (RTX 2060) and 1 onboard (some radeon onboard GPU), my brother in law installed 32GB of kingston fury RAM in it for me early this year as it originaly came with 8GB, this laptop was a definite step up for photoshop, lightroom, hefty gaming (it can run FORZA 5 and cyberpunk 2077!) ,music production and DJing and it boots a memory hog like windows 10 and 11 super quick. you also dont notice memory leaks like you woud on a allrounder/ lower end laptop.

i personaly woud pay £30,000 for a laptop if i had the spare cash as im a computer geek, im big into music production and photography,design,linux, raspberry pi handhelds and PCs,etc.

i do remember years ago a laptop and PC brand (now owned and sadly butchered by HP) in the US called omenPC sold laptops of the same price (to the value of £30,000) and there was no way i coud afford one,but i loved tinkering with the build a laptop setting to see how fancy i coud make it. :)
 
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The Lenovo I bought works great for what I do. I don't use it for showing videos. I get online and DJ with it. That's it for me. The old one I put to backup is used to play Monopoly and to DJ with. That's it. I have my music on portable HD'S.
 
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That's the first time I saw one. No problem if someone wants to spend that much for a laptop. What I find is some people can't afford certain things and yet will cause themselves hardship because they have to struggle to pay for a thing.
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I've been buying used boat anchors (aka old towers) as my last few computers. I make my living on the computer and am perfectly fine working with my 10 year old machine because most of my work is done server side. All I really need is a text editor and terminal window. Sure, I edit some photos and work with video once in a blue moon; but right now I wouldn't spend 3k on a computer.

Not because I'm cheap but because a computer like a van is just a tool to get a job done. My boat anchors serve me well because well I can get a desktop with an i7 and 32GB of RAM just to run virtual machines in for < $400.

When I buy a used tower and add in an extra SSD and 2 screens I'm good to go for a few years. :sqcool:
 
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