New laptop time.

[Excalibur]

Possibly. Lease can be upgraded on my six year old laptop. I know that 8gig of ram and 1Tb of storage is a good staring point, but what processor? I reckon I can get i3 models, but how does that compare to Celeron et al? Dual core, quad core? Help!!

All thoughts appreciated.

[DJColsie]

The best upgrade I made to mine was to have SDD (Solid Disk Drive I think) instaed of a Hard Disk Drive. Much much faster and no mechanicals like a HDD so can't crash loosing all your data.

I would have thought i3 would have been fine. I guess the faster the better.

4GB of RAM would be OK, 8GB faster and better.

I am sure techy people with far more knowledge and valued opinions will be along soon.

[Marc J]

...SDD (Solid Disk Drive I think) instaed of a Hard Disk Drive. Much much faster and no mechanicals like a HDD so can't crash loosing all your data.

To say SSD drives can't crash is just wrong. And when they do crash (just as often as HDDs), data recovery from them (if you need it) is much harder and more expensive.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/data-recovered-failed-ssd/

[Excalibur]

Thanks for the info so far lads.
Two points I forgot to stipulate, budget is £350-400, and it's coming from Currys/ PCWORLD.

Probably.

As is so often the case, if I jump ship with them, there's a fairly big short term financial penalty, although I'd possibly save long term. It might also mean postponing the swap as well, cos this is an early upgrade offer. I have a lot of sums to do, but I don't expect going elsewhere will save me a lot.

The leftfield option is to rebuild the older one. Acer 5520, 2gig ram, 120 gig hd, and a 1.8ghz fual core Athlon processor. Again, I haven't done the sums, but I can see upgrading that work out dearer.

Keep the thoughts coming lads, and if anyone can explain the relative ranking of a few processors, that would be great. Thanks.

[Nakatomi]

Not sure about AMD processors these days Peter (I avoid them like the plague), but with Intel the pecking order goes as follows:

Celeron,
then i3,
then i5,
then i7

Celeron having the least grunt & i7 having the most in terms of processing power.

Within each class there are 'clock speeds' which basically tell you how fast the processor runs. e.g. a Celeron at 2Ghz will be faster than a Celeron at 1.5Ghz. Ah, but what about differences between classes, like a Celeron at 2Ghz ... will it be faster than say an i3 running at 1.8Ghz ? A good rule of thumb is that clock speed for speed, a latter class processor will do better. Whether or not you'll notice any benefit with Djing software ... probably not. My current laptop was a refurb deal from PC World, an HP G6 with Core i3, 8GB RAM.. and was a shade over £300 - and when I'm not DJing (on Linux) with it, I edit video under Windows with it. It's no slouch but not as fast as I'd like (nothing ever is!).

[Excalibur]

Justin, that's immensely helpful. Ta. As i started to read more about these, I'd sort of worked out a lot of what you said. Seems like my choice is akin to Hobsons, given my budget, although I did find a Toshiba from Ebuyer that was very good spec for sensible money.

[Benny Smyth]

Possibly. Lease can be upgraded on my six year old laptop. I know that 8gig of ram and 1Tb of storage is a good staring point, but what processor? I reckon I can get i3 models, but how does that compare to Celeron et al? Dual core, quad core? Help!!

All thoughts appreciated.

That's bloody good going for a laptop.

The laptop I use to run Traktor is almost exactly the same but using an i5 processor.

[DazzyD]

I use a new Asus X-Series with i3 processor, 8gb RAM, 1.5Tb HDD and Win10. It plays VDJ fine. Under £500 from Argos.

[CRAZY K]

Possibly. Lease can be upgraded on my six year old laptop. I know that 8gig of ram and 1Tb of storage is a good staring point, but what processor? I reckon I can get i3 models, but how does that compare to Celeron et al? Dual core, quad core? Help!!

All thoughts appreciated.

Dont know if this is a SCAM but I see theres a free download called TurboyourPC which allegedly speeds things up.

Available until tomorrow.

Anyone know anything about this and does it really work?

Or is it just Crap Cleaner and deleting temporary files in disguise?