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Forum: VirtualDJ Technical Support

Topic: looking to buy a new laptop need advice on what works for you guys
Hi Dj Jamm Here Its time for a new laptop, Mine runs great but times are changing, I do Video and use ddj rev7 and numark ns73 all the time. Right now my machine is flawless but video seems to crash since last week.
Any reccomendations, I purchased an msi with a 14900hx and rtx 4070 and 32g ram but that had audi drop outs , dont undrstand, so returned that to costco and bought an
Acer predator rtx 4080 i9 1400hx 32 g ram , but that one after sever perfomance adjustments started dropping out. after 2 hours of play , audi seemed garbled adjusted latency did it again.
I also need to have the wifi hooked up.

Do I need to switch to Mac with m4 max processor and 48g of memory to get solid performance
Please can anyone help
Jamm
 
Posted Sat 08 Feb 25 @ 11:16 pm
I want to let you know i cahnged processors perfomance settin, added to page file also, downloaded cpu park core , changed power settings to ultimate performance. Is there a new laptop top of the line I prefer windows , but not aftwaid to switch to 16 macbook pro.. please leave feeback

Jamm
 
It's just a case of trial and error. Unfortunately current laptops are more focused on efficiency than raw performance so need quite a bit of "tuning up" to work.

Recent Intel chips are shit and have efficiency cores built in which are pointless in a supposedly powerful machine.

For Windows I'd try a Ryzen equivalent of the i7 or i9 to see what happens.

Macs aren't a silver bullet either, people reporting issues with them too.

Personally I'm sticking with my 2019 Lenovo 10th gen i7 as it works absolutely perfectly with no skips and only 3 percent CPU use with everything running including remote, video out and DMX control. Maybe you should do a fresh install on your old machine first.
 
DJay software
 
anyone
will this laptop work flawlessly while using wifi and video
Apple 2024 MacBook Pro Laptop with M4 Max, 14‑core CPU, 32‑core GPU: Built for Apple Intelligence, 14.2-inch Liquid Retina XDR Display, 36GB Unified Memory, 1TB SSD Storage; Space Black
 
That spec is more than enough to run VDJ with video.
 
The min specs page would tell you it's more than enough - it's overkill to have a M4 Max to run DJ software imo, even the binned version.
 
i bought an acer helios with 14900hx processor and rtx4080 dedicated video card and 32 gis of ram and could not get it to run without audio dropouts . i did every tweak imaginable , what gives.. amazing speed of rendering stems but when using ddj rev 7 and putting through th e motions it let me down spent weeks tryibng to figure out how to get it to run real time adio without dropouts... I want latencey to run as stable and low as possible.
 
Im a bery well known dj in my area and i work in a high value venue, i get a lot of slack for using vdj and seems maybey theres some truth to the stability.. Im frustrated. I want a laptop thats very fast and can do the job and use stems and effects with video
 
This issue is Windows laptops, not VDJ. Search the Rekordbox or Serato subs on Reddit and you'll see their users withg exactly the same problems with skipping and jumping.

Go for something 12th gen or before and it has a better chance of just working, but stems will be slow.

As I said there are a multitude of things at play here so you're going to have to do some work to find a solution.

Macs are not faultless either, plenty people on here had issues with music skipping on them too.
 
I run VirtualDJ on a M1 MacBook Pro (16 RAM, 1TB SSD) with realtime stem separation, video playback and even shoutcast radio broadcast on certain days, while running it with a DJM S11 + Phase or Timcode records or a DDJ-1000 without issue. I also scratch/beatjuggle with both those setups without issue.

That should be enough to know your needs in a Mac machine.

As for the stability comment, it's probably a config/machine selection issue, not the OS or VirtualDJ itself. Most DJs suggesting it's the software aren't really aware of computer architecture - they mostly follow what they've seen others doing/using successfully.
 
thanks so much for the Information everyone. its appreciated