The Official Computer Survey Thread

[Nicadraus]

I have created a similar thread like this in DJF 1.0 and it was quite a busy thread.

The purpose of this thread is to survey and not a "Mac vs PC" comparison/flame war. So please do not post irrelevant replies that may lead to flaming.

1. What computer/laptop are you using: Brand/Make, Size
2. Specs: Processor, RAM, HDD/SSD, Video Card, USB ports (2.0/3.0?)
3. Advantages/weakness
4. OS
5. Programs installed, games, other softwares (non-DJ/audio)
6. DJ/Audio softwares used
7. Any problems experienced/occured (if there are/were)
8. How long have you been using it or purchase date?
9. What was our previous computer?
10. Why you purchased your current one?
11. Your other/secondary computer (if any)

:)

[Jason Cerna]

1. Mid 2010 MBP 13"
2. 2.4 GHz Intel Core Duo w/ 8 GB DDR3 ram, 500GB seagate hdd @ 7200rpm. External drives: 2TB western digital & 1TB seagate, both firewire 800
3. Advantage: Audio applications never crash & ease of use. Weakness: would like an HDMI port
4. OS: Snow Leopard 10.6.8
5. Sketchbook Pro, iLife, Gimp, Miro Video Converter, Open Office, Skype, Filezilla and a few minor applications
6. Traktor Pro 2, Ableton Live 8
7. Sometimes too many flash applications lockup firefox and I must force quit firefox.
8. Been using it since summer 2010
9. What was your previous computer? this replaced my 2004 12" iBook G4 and my 2009 24" iMac
10. I don't use Microsoft products anymore
11. None, I have no need for a desktop computer.

[sephi]

1. What computer/laptop are you using: Brand/Make, Size
Gateway P-7805u FX, 17". When someone makes a 21" laptop with a great graphics card, I'll buy that.
2. Specs: Processor, RAM, HDD/SSD, Video Card, USB ports (2.0/3.0?)
Core2Duo, 4GB DDR3, 1.28TB over two HDDs, 9800M GTS, paltry three USB ports.
3. Advantages/weakness
Dual drive bays, lasting gaming power, fast, big screen, desktop replacement, all my stuff on one box, cost-efficient.
vs
Big.
4. OS
Windows XP SP3 and Xubuntu. Will eventually try to get OSX on here like I had on my previous laptop.
5. Programs installed, games, other softwares (non-DJ/audio)
Steam, all kinds of games, development tools, VirtualBox.
6. DJ/Audio softwares used
Scratch Live, Acid, Audacity, iTunes, Google Music, FLAC decoder.
7. Any problems experienced/occurred (if there are/were)
Screen is slightly washed out and has mediocre viewing angles. Doesn't dispense high quality alcoholic beverages. Nothing else to speak of.
8. How long have you been using it or purchase date?
Over three years. Early 2009?
9. What was your previous computer?
ASUS F3SV and a custom shuttle-style gaming rig that cost all of $200 to build and laughed at Crysis.
10. Why you purchased your current one?
A falling 60" plasma TV beheaded the ASUS, and I wanted a laptop better suited for virtualization anyway.
11. Your other/secondary computer (if any)
My tablet and phone fulfill all of my "don't need a monster laptop" needs.


Should add: What do you think you will get next?
Something with even more unholy amounts of power at a justifiable price, but only when this machine starts to actually feel slow. Probably another ASUS.

[Chay]

Here's my computer set-up!

1. Samsung Q320 (1366x768)

2. Intel Core 2 Duo P8700 @ 2.53GHz, Samsung DDR2-800MHz (2x2GB), Seagate Momentus 5400 (500GB), Nvidia GeForce G105M, USB 2.0 (3x)

3. Advantages/weakness: More than enough for DJing/Heatsink fan gets loud, gets hot as well. Low battery life (2-3 hours)

4. Windows 7 Professional (x86)

5. WinAmp, iTunes, Denon DJ ASIO, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Security Essentials & Spybot Search & Destroy

6. Denon DN-X1600

7. Before the playing song would randomly play back in reverse... Although since I upgraded to Traktor 2.0.

8. 3 Years

9. Toshiba A100-SK900E

10. Overheating to 100c constantly (Due to playing computer games) cause it to malfunction.

11. KOS-MOS, my gaming machine.

[Phil Noize]

1. What computer/laptop are you using: Lenovo ThinkPad W500 (15.4")
2. Intel® Core™2 Duo processor P9400 (2.53Ghz, 6MB L2, 1066Mhz FSB), 8GB DDR3 RAM, Western Digital Scorpio Black 320GB 7200RPM HDD, ATI Fire GL M86-GL (512MB) Video Card, WSXGA+ (1680x1050) Screen, 3 x USB2.0, 2 x USB3.0
3. Advantages - shock mounted hard drive, magnesium alloy roll cage technology, spill resitant keybord. Weakness - Windows!
4. OS - Windows 7 Ultimate (x64)
5. Programs installed - FreeRIP, VLC, Avast, PowerISO, MS Office 2010, Limbo.
6. DJ/Audio software - Traktor Pro 2, Ableton 8.
7. Pretty reliable.
8. Been using this for about 6 months.
9. Previous laptop - Panasonic Toughbook CF-72
10. Got this because old single core machine was starting to be a bit too slow.
11. Your other/secondary computer ....

11. What computer/laptop are you using: Lenovo ThinkPad X200 (12.1")
12. Intel® Core™2 Duo processor P9400 (2.53Ghz, 6MB L2, 1066Mhz FSB), 4GB DDR3 RAM, 128GB SSD, Integrated Intel® X4500 HD Graphics, 3 x USB2.0, 2 x USB3.0
13. Advantages - very small & light, very fast robust SSD, magnesium alloy roll cage technology, spill resitant keybord. Weakness - small hard drive, no optical drive, Windows!
14. OS - Windows 7 Ultimate (x64)
15. Programs installed - VLC, Avast, PowerISO, MS Office 2010, Limbo.
16. DJ/Audio software - Traktor Pro 2
17. Pretty reliable.
18. Been using this for about 4 months.
19. N/A
20. Bought this as a computer to use around the house, but it has become my backup and sometimes main machine when I don't want to carry my heavier W500, although I do have a smaller music collection on this one.

[NickJames]

1. What computer/laptop are you using: 17" Toshiba

2. Specs: Dual-i3, 8GB RAM, 750GB HDD, 3xUSB, IntelHD Graphics (booooo)

3. Advantages/weakness: Graphics suck and the processor could be better. Other than that it's a good machine.

4. OS: Windows 7 & OpenSUSE

5. Programs installed, games, other software: Photoshop & Illustrator

6. DJ/Audio software used: Serato Scratch Live, MixInKey, and MP3Tag.de

7. Any problems experienced/occurred: No but I always carry CDs just in case.

8. How long have you been using it or purchase date: About a year.

9. What was our previous computer: A Dell Inspiron Something, an Apple MacBook Pro, and an Apple iBook.

10. Why did you purchase your current one: Always looking for new hardware

11. Your other/secondary computer (if any): 15" Compaq will similar specs.

[DJ A.Blatch]

1. What computer/laptop are you using: MacBook Pro early 2009 15"
2. Specs: 2.66ghz C2D, 4gb ram, 320gb HDD, 2xusb 2.0 (audio8dj and traktor x1) and fw800 (500gb external HDD)
3. Advantages/weakness: It is what I am used to using, so it does everything i need it to. however it is getting a little bit old now, slower to start up and gets "confused" every now and then
4. OS: OSX Snow Leopard
5. Programs installed, games, other softwares (non-DJ/audio): MS Office, iLife, Cinema 4D, Final Cut Studio, Adobe CS5 master suite.....
6. DJ/Audio softwares used: TSP, ProTools, Logic Studio, NI Absynth, Ableton, NI Massive...
7. Any problems experienced/occured (if there are/were): Nothing yet *touch wood*
8. How long have you been using it or purchase date?: Bought it early 2009, month before the newer models..*shakes fist*
9. What was our previous computer? This is my first laptop, before that just a crappy Desktop PC
10. Why you purchased your current one? Was a gift from my parents for making it into Unitveristy
11. Your other/secondary computer (if any): My partners 13" MBP current generation.

[KLH]

1. What computer/laptop are you using: Dell Latitude D630 laptop

http://i.imgur.com/z5iqr.jpg

2. Specs: Intel Core2Duo 2GHz, 1GB , 7200RPM 300 GB HDD, Intel onboard vid, USB 2.0

3. Advantages/weakness - Advantage is that it's an older laptop so drivers are optimized

4. OS: Windows XP sp3

5. Programs installed: iTunes.

6. DJ/Audio softwares used: Traktor Pro v2.x. Dedicated to DJing.

7. Any problems experienced/occured: On initial release of S4, had to install ASIO4ALL to address latency issues. New S4 driver was released so I removed ASIO4ALL.

8. How long have you been using it or purchase date: Since 2009. Used for work, but switched to DJing.

9. What was our previous computer? Desktop. Lesson learned - Don't use a desktop for DJing.

10. Why you purchased your current one? Laptops are the way to go for DJing. Self contained portable computers.

11. Your other/secondary computer (if any): None.

[Hippie]

1 Self built PC
2 AMD4200+, Asus A8N Premo, 2G RAM, 7800GTX, RAID5 SATA sys drives, lots of other drives, Tagan PSU all in a big Lian Li case with dual 24 and 21" monitors.
3 not very portable but it is easy to upgrade
4 Dual boot XP and OSX
5 MP3Tag, Trainspotter, Traktor SP 2, NOD32, Bomes Classic, Stanton DaRouter, RTPmidi, TouchOSC editor and hundreds of other programs as it used to be my main desktop (and I'm lazy like that)
6 Traktor Scratch Pro 2
7 Had to move my desk/stand out a couple of inches to house the big Lian Li case and installed OSX to work around the old send monitor state Traktor bug in TSP 1
8 Most of it was purchased in 2004, upgraded the processor from a 3700+ in 2011
9 AMD 3700XP and a HP 1.8 Centrino lappy
10 Originally built as a gamer and all rounder
11 Desktop connected to the same 2 monitors, Q6600, 4 Gig, Gigabyte 73PVM, lots of storage drives
Under the telly, an Acer Revo 3610 and another 1T of storage
IPad for controlling Traktor, posting on forums and controlling XBMC on the Revo

[silentsounds]

Note, my current and only computer is one I bought in a hurry just before I made my move to the States.

Laptop - Toshiba Qosmio X500. (Bought it open box. Price was too good to say no to)
Screen - 18.4" - Yeah, this thing is huge. Too bad there's not a single laptop bag to fit this thing out there in the market, lol.
Processor - Core i7 740QM - that's 1.7GHz quad core, so it's far from the greatest out there. However, it does the job.
RAM - 8GB DDR3 1066
HD - 2 X 500GB - 7200RPM
Sound Card - In-built - Very average.
GPU - nVidia GTS 360M - This thing has managed to do decently with the few games I've thrown at it.
Screen - 1980X1080 - HD native resolution.

1. What computer/laptop are you using: Brand/Make, Size

A: See above

3. Advantages/weakness
A: Big screen and meant to be somewhat of a desktop replacement. Picked it up only for the decent price I got on it. Weak processing power. It does the job, but it can be slow every now and then. Running a clean install of Windows 7. Hate all the bloatware that comes loaded stock. It is very heavy for a laptop. While it has good resolution, I feel the screen brightness isn't great. A laptop that accepts multiple drives is an advantage. I'll eventually jump on the SSD bandwagon.

4. OS

A: Windows 7 Home Premium

5. Programs installed, games, other softwares (non-DJ/audio)
A: It is my primary computer so it has games on it, CSS, FIFA, etc. Photoshop and productivity apps.

6. DJ/Audio softwares used
A: Ableton, VDJ, Traktor

7. Any problems experienced/occured (if there are/were)
A: The processor is a little on the slower side, though I've never encountered issues with crashing or lagging (bar the rare one here and there) with any of the programs I have installed)

8. How long have you been using it or purchase date?
A: Picked this up early 2011


9. What was our previous computer?
A: Wasn't doing much DJ related work with software before. It was an HP desktop that had an upgraded PSU, GPU, RAM, etc. AMD dual core processor, 2 GHz. As slow as this desktop was, it never skipped a beat and I took great care of it.

10. Why you purchased your current one?
A: Needed a laptop as I was moving and had no final destination at the time.


11. Your other/secondary computer (if any)
A: None at the moment

[ezelkow1]

1. Custom
2. i7 2600k, 16gb ram, 3TB hdd, radeon 6850, 4 2.0, 2 3.0, liquid cooling, silent fans, NI AK1 sound card

3. Advantages/weakness
Advantages - everything, super fast and silent, great for production

4. OS
win7x64

5. Programs installed, games, other softwares (non-DJ/audio)
Steam and some various games

6. DJ/Audio softwares used
Ableton, FL studio, energyxt, studio one, various instruments

7. Any problems experienced/occured (if there are/were)
None

8. How long have you been using it or purchase date?
6 months

9. What was our previous computer?
Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop

10. Why you purchased your current one?
Needed more horsepower for production. Also had wanted a desktop machine again for a while and finally got the space for a desk

11. Your other/secondary computer (if any)
Dell inspiron 1520, 2.4ghz c2d, 4gb ram, 500gb hdd

[Nicadraus]

Many of you have monster specs.

Here's mine. Nothing monster but gets the job done.

1. Dell Inspiron 14R (N4010), 14"
2. i3-290m 2.67Ghz 6gb RAM, 640gb HD 7200rpm, 3 USB 2.0 ports
3. Advantage: It's light and powerful enough for my needs. Weakness: It had a lot of bloatwares when I bought it. I re-formatted.
4. Win7 Home 64bit
5. Photoshop, Google Earth, Pixresizer, Firefox
6. TSP, Kore, Ableton 8.2.6
7. Problems were the bloatwares when I purchased it. Re-installed Win7. They're gone now.
8. It's been with me since Sept. 2011
9. Dell Inspiron 600m
10. I bought a newer one because the 600m was aging. I had it since 2005 and worked with me for 6 years with no problems at all.
11. My secondary is the 600m.

[Karlos Santos]

1. Apple Macbook Pro
2. 2.53 /8GB / 750HD / NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB graphics / 2 x USB2.0
3. Advantages - Reliability / Weakness - None
4. OSX Lion 10.7.3
5. Chrome / MS Office Mac Edition
6. Traktor Scratch Pro / Guitar Rig 5 / Maschine / Kontact / Reaktor / Serato Itch / SSL / Ableton Live / Xtreme Mapping / TouchOSC / OSCulator / Logic 9 / Audacity
7. None
8. November 2009
9. Apple Macbook Pro 2.16 / 3GB / 500HD
10. Because I only use Macs and I only gig with Macs that have Apple Care. I buy a new gig Mac every 3 years.
11. Macbook Pro / Mini Mac / iBook

[g-sep]

My workstation:
1. Custom
2. i7 2600k, oc'd to 4.3; Quadro 600 GPU; 8gb RAM; CM Hyper 212+ CPU Cooler; 1tb WD HDD; ASUS Sabertooh P67 MOBO; OCZ 800W PSU
3. Runs fast, pretty quiet with big fans, looks mean
4. Windows 7, 64bit
5. Solidworks 64bit, AutoCAD, Revit Architecture, PRO Engineer, SKYRIM!!!
6. Native Instruments Maschine, Komplete 8 Elements, Ableton 8
7. None
8. 8 months
9. 17" MBP, 2006 (Still us it)
10. Because Macs suck ass to run any type of engineering design programming, even through bootcamp or a mac version of the software
11. 17" MBP, 2006

My DJ Box:
1. Apple MacBook Pro, 17", 2006
2. 2.16 GHz, 2gb DDR2 RAM lol, small ass HDD
3. Works with Traktor no problem, she's on her way out, so not really reliable
4. 10.6
5. Nothing else
6. Traktor Scratch Pro 2, Maschine
7. Unstable because of age, hardware is on it's way out. Used to crash a lot when using Maschine until i reinstalled the OS
8. Summer 2006
9. HP Deskcrap
10. Thought I was cool
11. Custom Workstation Monster that was listed up top :argh:

[k4hn]

1. Custom Desktop
2. i5 2500K, 8GB Ram, ASRock Z68 mobo, 1tb HD, nvidia 460GTX 1gb, 800w Seasonic PSU, USB 3.0
3. Advantages - Powerful and relatively cheap, also a snap to upgrade. Weaknesses - Not portable.
4. Win7 64bit
5. Steam, Mediamonkey, CellDNA
6. Ableton 8, Traktor Pro 2
7. No problems here.
8. I built it about 4-5 months ago.
9. Lenovo R61 laptop
10. My Lenovo kept overheating and I wanted a more powerful production/gaming setup.
11. Said Lenovo.

[mostapha]

1. What computer/laptop are you using: Brand/Make, Size: Early 2011 13" Macbook Pro

2. Specs: Processor, RAM, HDD/SSD, Video Card, USB ports (2.0/3.0?): 2.3 dual-core i5, 4GB, 120GB Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD, who cares about the video card?, USB2.0, FW800, Thunderbolt

3. Advantages/weakness
Advantages: OS X, CoreAudio, CoreMIDI, zsh, macports, Devloper Tools, vim, ssh, easy access to compilers/interpreters for anything, Spaces, Expose, multi-touch, balls easy screen caps (photo and video), Apple Care, firewire

Disadvantage: it wastes space and weight with an optical drive that I don't use and the screen is too big (11" would be perfect)

4. OS: OS X Lion (10.7.2)

5. Programs installed, games, other softwares (non-DJ/audio): Developer Tools; a lot of unix utilities; a lot of compilers, interpreters, and debuggers; clamXav; Disk Inventory X; Firefox; Chrome; iProcrastinate; Keynote; Pages; Numbers; MacVim; Vico; Quicksilver; Seashore; TrashMe; VLC; Silverlight (ugh…stupid netflix)

6. DJ/Audio softwares used Logic 9; Pro Tools 10; Serato Scratch Live; a handfull of synths; Reason; Renoise; Maschine; Mixlr

7. Any problems experienced/occured (if there are/were) I think it had a DOA opitcal drive. I didn't notice for ~6 months and haven't cared at all.

8. How long have you been using it or purchase date? May 2011.

9. What was our previous computer? '08 Macbook 2.16

10. Why you purchased your current one? The Macbook was getting close to the end of its warranty and I had the money.

11. Your other/secondary computer (if any)? I gave the MacBook to my girlfriend for christmas, but I have an old PowerPC G4 that still works.

[epik1]

1. Desktop: self-built. Laptop: MacBook Pro 15" (Winter 2011)
2. Desktop: CPU:E8400 @ 3.8GHZ -->Zalman 9700NT HSF
GPU:XFX 5870 1GB OR SLI EVGA 560 1GB each
HDD:150GB Raptor,WD500GB,WD1TB BLACK
MOBO:Asus Striker 2 Formula
RAM:OCZ HPC REAPER 4GB 1066mhz pc2-8500 (5-5-5-15)@2.2v
PSU:Silverstone Strider 850W
CASE:Silvertstone TJ07
SOUND:Auzentech X-Fi Prelude
Keyboard:Logitech G15 V2
Mouse:Razer DeathAdder
Case Cooling:2x92mm exhaust,2x120mm exhaust, 2x120mm Ultra Kaze(3000RPM)intake.
Running:Win7 64-bit Ultimate
MacBook Pro:
CPU:i7 2.2GHZ
GPU:AMD 6750 1GB
HDD:750GB Hitachi, 1TB WD External HDD
RAM:Crucial 8GB SDDR3

3. Desktop hardware needs some i7!!
4. Win7 Ultimate, OSX Lion
5. Too much other software, games, photo and video editing software, drafting software,
6. Serato, Traktor, Logic, Live, FL9...
7. Desktop, had issues because I kept overclocking =P, MacBook 13" screen kept dying.
8. Desktop, I've been upgrading and building for about 6 years, this year will be it's 7th. Macbook 13" black has been retired and given to my dad. MacBook Pro 15" since November 2011
9. Black 13" MacBook purchased in 2008/09?
10. Last purchased one was my MacBook Pro, cause I needed it for school; in my program we used OSX-based programs
11. My desktop, and my old black 13" MacBook

[peterwo2e]

lenovo 15" edge 500gb hd/8gb ram /win 7. works great with serato. but making a move to video might force me to go with a mac. lets see how it goes.