MAC VS PC FOR THE COMPUTER DJ

MAC VS PC
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[oOADROo]

Mac for DJ? That's a joke. Old skool Dj's have been using PC laptop for years.

Aril Brikha uses a old Laptop to make his live music. I think you saying mac's because they look good but to be all honest they not good for handling audio as Windows that's from my experience

[mike71flores]

@oOADROo find any top club dj and you will find a MAC...

[mike71flores]

@oOADROo I found two videos in the last 5 minutes on Youtube with Aril using a MAC...He has one video using a dell, but he's just using it for Ableton LIVE....that's pretty much a sound sequencer with drops....

[mike71flores]

Its based upon experience, once your in a large crowd you will realize how critical stability is when using software to run on your laptop. Another big one is running music videos. If you understood how the UNIX operating system works vs standard PC , then you would go with a MAC in a hearbeat.

[Stinkyfeet1995]

hey, im not a dj but i love lights! i have a mac and dont know what software to use! any recommendations?

[mike71flores]

MEGASEG DJ SOFTWARE for the MAC

[patcism]

Once again....

the Mac wins.

[whamma]

I use Serato Itch on a Macbookpro w/4gigs RAM and a Vestax VCI-300 controller. A Western Digital 2TB drive holds all the music, but I have that built in under the laptop in a hardshell case. This setup woks well for me as a Wedding DJ, but I do a ton of Karaoke shows as well, thus the need for the large hard drive. Virtual DJ did not work out because of it's lack of search for CDG files on a Mac formated external drive. So if you don't do karaoke, than it's fine. PC just won't cut it, never did.

[davesmusicmania1]

I use media player 9 and LOVE IT

megaseg looks great but wow what and investment. Hey im a DJ/musician which means im basically poor

[davesmusicmania1]

all of this talk and no true answers...ok Mac has Megaseg what do PC owners use?? is there anything out there equivalent??

[panacioo]

@oOADROo mac is based around music, videos and photos

[SolDiosEntertainment]

@DjShredderbeat your right, they don't care, but they will if it randomly crashes during the night

[BaggyBies]

@mike71flores Probably just because of the "style" I think

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[LinnWin]

To all commenting on Mac vs. PC, it's absolutely a matter of preference, they're very different animals. Mac is a closed, proprietary architecture. Therefore it is MUCH more expensive and requires less tweaking. Windows on the other hand runs on a HUGE range of PC hardware which is why it requires a little more tailoring depending on what you want to use it for (like audio). Since we've done a lot of mac vids at Dubspot we made this to show some love to our Windows user fans.

[djinthemixx11]

Been djing for 17 yrs ,,started vinyl,,then cdj,just went to video mixing,,I use a PC tower with huge video card ,Serato with cdj 1000s ttm57sl board.. PC has I5 Intel processor 8 gig of ram...Runs like a dream,,no probs at all,For videos u need high end vid card and no macbook or labtop for that matter could keep up with a built PC tower loaded ..Good luck guys