new laptop

[JR]

had an old dell free off a mate 6 years ago, 1st computer i owned. It was falling apart by now so i invested in this:

http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/s...Id=1500002901&langId=-1&searchTerms=MSI+CR640

It's in Which? top 35 laptops rated 66% With the top score of 86% going to the mac book pro at £968

20% less score for £592 less is ok with me

got 10% off and put it on credit over 9 months, very pleased with it. Especially compared to the old one which had a 30gb memory and .386 of ram...not to mention a screen that needed propping up dead battery and keys that'd fallen off!

 

[Larry]

i never heard of this brand at all, looks pretty good though

 

[Wicked Neo]

bought myself a new Sony Vaio a couple of months ago just for DJing with and a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 for internet stuff, no point in bothering with a desktop PC any more.
Cost for both was £900.

The Vaio is connected to both the CDJ2000s and to the Mixer, the decks and mixer control the software on the laptop to enable me to DJ with any music file format, mp3, wav, acc, CD, DVD etc etc.
The Vaio is also connected to my HD monitor via HDMI cable and I use a laser wireless mouse to scroll through music files that are stored either on the laptop, SD cards on the decks, external harddrives and also whilst at home, its mapped to my NAS Server on which i have over 200,000 music files
All of this can pack neatly away into flight cases for gigging, you can see a couple of them in the background.

 

[Neal R19]

MSI is a well known brand in PC components, particularly motherboards and graphics cards, with a good reputation for quality.

I'd do away with my desktop except I use it for games.

I do have a ~10 year old HP centrino laptop for sitting on the sofa browsing the net. It's a bit like trigger's broom now with most bits having been replaced.

At 15.4" screen, it's still got a higher resolution than most new ones (1680 * 1050)

 

[Chris H]

as Neal said MSI are well known for mother boards.

I need to get a better processor for my laptop, I recently took it up to the maximum 2 GB of ram which helped immensely running pro engineer etc.

However a faster processor will help greatly watching movies etc on it.

Need a bigger hard drive as well tbh.

I have a Compaq Presario V4110EA which is about 5/6 years old.

I hate laptop keyboards and the mousepad, I normally just use a usb mouse on them.

 

[Neal R19]

I have a spare pentium M here Chris, 1.6GHz, 1 meg cache. SL6FA.

I think that's a bit quicker than what you have, not by much mind.

I was going to turn it into a keyring but you can have it if you want.

 

[tattyoldvan]

MSI are great, Used to sell their higher end game ones, and the case was a bit of an old design, but bloody solid. MSI Mboards are in plenty of branded PCs and nobody complains

 

[The T.I.B.]

These days I treat laptops as disposable, I'm lucky to get a year out of one before something breaks so I buy nearly-new, chuck it around and don't worry too much

I only have the laptop for web browsing at home and the odd bit of CD ripping, I have a decent desktop at work for most other things.

The laptop I got at the start of the year I chose because it has an HDMI port, I haven't used that once, ever :lol:

 

[Chris H]

that would be grand Neal, santa is here on retro!

My 1.4 ghz one wouldn't overclock with the pin mod, apparently some do some don't.

So a boost to 1.6 may not be amazing but every little helps.

 

[Neal R19]

no worries... santa's gonna be late though - wont be sending it until the new year

 

[Chris H]

thats fine mofo, I pm'd you