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Forum: VirtualDJ Technical Support

Topic: NEW HIGH END LAPTOP FOR DJING
HELLO GENTS AND LADIES
I am looking for a new laptop to run virtual dj, currently have been through many newer processor laptops and had to return them all, acer 18 with intel 14900 and rtx 408 video card and could not get it to stop crackle and pop after all of my optimization , running ddj rev 7 and numark ns7 3

Has anyone any advice on a new computer that will run this software flawlessly. and I am at my wits end .
Im considering this one here
MSI Vector A18 HX 18 inch QHD+ Gaming Laptop AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti - 32GB DDR5 2TB SSD
Any THOUghTs PLEASE HELP, My 2019 laptop is runnig vdj fine with video and a camera and internet..
OR SHOULD I JUST BITE THE BULLIT AND GO WITH M4 MACBOOK PRO WITH 48G MEMORY AND 1TB HDD

THANKS
 
geposted 23 hours ago
In all honesty just get a Mac and save yourself the hassle (assuming your NS7/3 is supported with drivers etc as it's a 2015 controller). You won't need 48gb RAM for DJ stuff, that's just overkill and a waste of money.

I recently got a M4 Macbook Air for mucking about with (the 512gb version) and it's faultless. Does realtime stems around 20x and runs extremely well.

Windows laptops aren't worth the hassle any more although I still use them at home for video work etc. and my main DJ laptop is Windows (but a 2019 model so it works perfectly).
 
Haven't had any issue with various Dell XPS so far
 
I'm still running my NS7III through my old MSI GT73EVER which I believe is almost the same age as the NS7III, I am however looking into the same MSI Titan 18 HX AI A2XWJG as you which I know is complete overkill for everything, but I'm looking into the future as I also do a lot of photography and video rendering editing as well as the DJ side of things, I'm not Pro Windows or MACS I just use what works for me with the tools I need. Just get whatever works best for your needs
 
What I have found is that the more "overkill" Windows machines are the worse they are for latency. The conflict of having two separate graphics cards seems to cause issues too.

Sadly buying the fully loaded version doesn't mean that audio latency will be better, the opposite in fact in some cases.

It is possible to improve things with a bit of tweaking (disabling core parking etc) but it takes a lot of work. When I got my Zenbook 16X the latency was terrible out of the box, but with a bit of time spent on configuring it's far far better now.

At least with a Mac it just works out of the box in most cases.