DJ Music

Laptop DJing differs from conventional DJing in that all you need to DJ is  a laptop, a sound card and an output (speakers), all your Dj music, and DJ mixing ‘equipment’ is data contained with int he Dj laptop, making it highly functional, multi tasking, and unbeleivably portable.

If you plan on DJing on a laptop then you need to consider a few things before going out any buying a DJ laptop, these factors affect your Djing, music quality and costs.

First you want to consider the size of your Dj laptop- size affect portability and screen size, if the screen size is too small you might have challenges looking at and menipulating your DJ programs.

consider the size of the DJ laptops hard drive, whilst you can get external hard drives, really the larger the hard drive of your DJ laptop the more storage space you have for your msuic and programs.

Next you want to look at processing power- this is the pentium processor, go for the top spec.  Also have a look at the RAM or random access memory, for DJ laptops you want to have one that is at around 2 GB, this is critical as this determinse how smoothly your dj software runs and certainly if you’re going to Dj music with a Laptop at a DJ gig, you don’t want your software to crash mid set.

Now that you have whittled down the number of Laptops open to you you can start thinking about look and operating system. there are two main operating system for you to choose from, MAc and PC windows, personally I reckon Mac is better and the software is designed to cope with media heavy applications, however Windows PC are cheaper and have a larger variety of programs available, really it depends what you are more comfortable using…go for a Mac, when it comes to looks its really up to you, but you’ll want to think about somthing thats sturdy and able to take a few knocks.

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