Its 11years been a dj n i hv never used a macbook, cos i think its over hyped

Well done 👍🏾 what an eye opener, thank you for the video.🎉

Im using Dell Precision I7 with 32 Gb Ram with no anti-virus / firewall..no internet / wi-fi.....only dedicated for audio / serato. Its awesome...no drops...no glitchy stuff.....Its all about Ram + a very decent brand of SSD HD......CPU is not the problem....thats it I recomend 17 inches laptops - because they use to have 2 fans and its better for cooling in long time usage / professionally - cheers from Rio / Brazil !

Cheers for that bro.. much appreciated

Excellent video & just saved me from unnecessary spending. I just purchased a Zenbook Duo Pro that I was using to dj but was annoyed with unhooking & having to move it for everyday use. I needed dedicated dj laptop & now I know I don't have to break the bank....

I said this for a long time upon making the decision to give up Mac upon their first price increase about 6-7 years ago. Albeit not as cheap as a laptop you bought, I opted to go the route of a gaming spec PC, which outperformed my previous Macbook Pro hands down. I have never looked back since. I now perform on the laptop free Denon Prime 4. Happy days.

Excellent VID!!!

Have the same problem on my 2013 macbook ! This is a nice solution without invest 1000 bucks .. thank you mate !

You just changed my life. Been spending all this money on laptops and only using them to play music and nothing else. Have to get a new one and was considering another Mac. I love Mac’s no doubt but I’m never buying an expensive laptop for djing again, even though I can afford it. Thanks man.

Thank you for the video.

Love this!

Great test video

That is very promising.

Old windows laptops are fine. I use a old Dell Precision which is an i7 with 16GB. But its about 8yrs old. Runs Windows 7 Pro with nothing on it at all apart from Serato. Its solid. Never had 1 glitch on it. If your a Pro DJ you must have a dedicated DJ laptop with no other apps on it. Especially if your using it for events etc.

crazy ... and good work

I love this video. Can you suggest a cheap computer for Virtual DJ 2.0 stems?

Excellent video, make you think before splashing the cash for a new (expensive) laptop 👍

Thanks sir for this video, i bought a cheap second hand dell latitude laptop from online store. Works fine in serato dj pro with my numark mixtrack platinum fx.

I use a core i5 7th gen and it performs really awesome

The first 3.0 beta crashed on my windows laptop 💻 almost constantly. But then the 2nd beta they put out like a week or so later. Works. Way way better. Almost no issues other then my fx an samples don’t save right. But that’s no problem.

I does same thing on my Dell 7480 laptop it's great 👍

Why is this possible? I’m curious as to how many tracks that laptop can carry in its storage as well as how it performs with multiple applications. Not to knock this video or anything, I love your channel bro. I just think this test was not a proper representation of a fully loaded laptop. Many of us DJs have a ton of tracks both audio and video. Some of us need to run SoundSwitch and Phase DJ. I wish you had really gone out of your way to load this laptop up with applications and functionality that would really show a balanced result. In any case, this video is a greatly augmented as to why there no excuse for not having a backup laptop in this day and age of Disc Jockeying. Great videos anyway bro. Keep up the great content. One love from Canada. 🇨🇦

My mid 2012 MacBook Pro with 16bg and no ssd Hard drive. Serato steam is working great no drop out no Glitches. I’m loving it

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I did this same test. I was running a MacBook pro retina 2015 and it performed as bad your MacBook did. My windows laptops (Lenovo Thinkpads) performed flawlessly. I ended up getting rid of my macbook pro and replaced it with a ThinkPad x390 with an 8th Gen i7 CPU and 16GB RAM. It costed significantly less than my macbook and performed flawlessly with the Serato 3.0 beta.

I haven’t made the Jump yet. Can you please do a video on how to use a an EXTERNAL HD to cover the stems tracks as I don’t want to save them on my main laptop as short enough on storage.

that's crazy. my macbook air struggles and I can hardly play stems on the fly with any songs. it has all the things ,, i5, 8gb, 512gb but it hates stems. it also had crashed a few times before i switched to 3.0. ita a potato.

REAL TALK: I was about to drop over $1K on a new gaming laptop. Twice within a couple of weeks, my Serato froze while streaming and doing some STEM tricks (luckily I had some vinyl to keep the music going). So I thought my 3yr old 8th gen i7 HP Pavilion was getting over worked by Seratos update. BUT, I saw somewhere else and now confirmed here, I just need a decent standalone computer. The laptop I use now has not only Serato, but the Adobe suite, Open Office, anti-virus and all of the internets...lol! Not going with a $84 one, but most def will save a few hundred with a standalone machine.

I have a similar problem with my 2015 MacBook Pro, but I think it might have been the battery that was going out. In the meantime, I would say to use controller or mixer keypads to use the stems functions and see if it’s still processes and works perfectly on the cheap Dell laptop that you bought from eBay .

I have a Dell Latitude 8GB ram core i5 and it’s running pretty 😊 good

I have a dell i7 16gb laptop running Serato Dj Pro 3.08. I use a WD 2TB External. I have no other apps and its cleaned. If i put a song on and play. I load up track 2 on the other deck. It freezes for a few seconds and then the second track shows up but the music doesnt stop. The program just freezes intil the second track pops up. Any suggestions.

Awesome! but I am sad. New Thinkpad P15s , core i7 10th generation type U, and unable to stop the drop light to show. Stems on load wont work with windows! every step followed, still wont work.

Time to pull out my old Dell laptop!!!!

Windows hv been holding their in dj software. I've moved from macs to budget gaming laptops that tend to hv room for a 2nd hard drive and i hv no regrets.

So why if i have a "better" computer serato always glitch and more now that i bought the numark platinum fx

Hey Cee B how are you, maybe you or someone in here could assist me. I have a fairly new HP PROBBOK i-5 (12th GEN) (1235U) 1.30 GHz, 32 GB RAM and 1TB Samsung M.2…and it wont even open Serato Pro DJ. Any idea or suggestions as to why? Thank you…Im an old school home DJ !!!

So wich MacBook non M1 can handle this situation?

Anyone have a link to a laptop that has all these requirements?

Hello grate Do you know if it's working with the surface pro? Best regard thierry

This is DJ boogie from Roseville Michigan I was wondering can you help me find one like that I need some about that fast too and I don't know how to go to buy do not know you show me on the video but it's I'm not too savvy on it thank you

Gotta love minimum specs. Thats why when I see suggest newcomers to spend thousands on a Macbook Pro when they can spend a few hundred to get started

I'm DJ boogie from Roseville Michigan I was wondering could you please help me find out top like that can you walk me through it again

People pay the price to advertise the Apple logo on the back of a screen. It's like completing the look of a pro-DJ.

Just get a core i5 of a new gen and 8gb ram mini your good to go. I even play video dj and it never hangs

How is it possible? It is amazing. I think that you have to test it more hours with hard use, effects, scratches etc. and tell us the results..

Jeeeezzzz that KZfaq money be coming in now yeah 😂

hi sir .i used t420s thinkpad lenovo i5 8gb ram windows 10 but my sounds is laggy. maybe you have solution on that

it's not about the price, it was cheap because it's an old model..dell is normally expensive because it's a manufacturer for professionals and businesses..

Hey. Bro gd day do you have a serato 3.0 crack can you gave me please

I’ve literally JUST downloaded Serato 3.0 Beta on my MacBook Pro Mid 2012 i5 and it’s perfectly fine no and I mean NO audio dropouts nor glitches on virtual decks and my MacBook Pro early 2015 i7 can hardly handle Serato 2.6.1 when it’s down to 1ms but the 2012 MBP handles the 3.0 at 1ms 🤷🏾‍♂️ and both are 16Gb ram.

Yet my brand new Ryzen 5 6 gen with 16gb ram can’t handle stems and constantly had audio dropouts

This comparison is ridiculous. Load that hard drive up, on the windows computer and try stems on files that haven’t been pre-analyzed and have it do it in real time. Also that computer is empty. And I’m sure the Mac was full. Use a full windows computer that has tons of services running in the background and you will NEVER get that kind of performance out of the windows machine. This video is a clickbait trash comparison. 1 folder with 6 tracks in the whole computer. It better run good. Put 2k files and 20 folders and all of a sudden the 84£ computer isn’t looking that great.

That’s what I have been doing, but I prefer apple Mac

You have some sort of voodoo going on my alienware sucks

Looking for that laptop can’t find that one

Will this work I know someone who has 3 of these business laptops for $165 each….HP ELITE BOOK I5 8TH Gen Processor - 8GB Ram - 256GB M.2 SSD - Intel UHD Graphics - Windows 11 - Smart Card Reader - Web Cam - Bluetooth

Next to the i5 6th gen a minimum of 8gb of mem is just as important.

Old pcs are built different

Are you running latency buffer on lowest setting in these tests?

£1000 mac book... from 2014... against a 6th gen intel, released August 2015...

Yow bro stems are not compatible with those operating system it works with Mac 2017 and up that's for those that can update the iOS

This example is bogus if the memory on the Mac isn’t as empty as the $84 Crap

Should've changed the key of sexy love

Yeh all good until ya start scratching and hook up a controller

Bro I’m new to DJing. What is Serato Stems

Have you tried this with DVS ?

I update my Mac book pro to vdj 2023 and the laptop start lagging after 45 minutes playing video mix live, so I turn off the steam and I keep mixing. If you play video this dell won’t work with serato because I already tested in my Mac Pro 2014, 16ram, i7 9cores

Another example of Apple overcharging for their logo

If you are playing video during 6 hours in a club, you will need a good laptop

The Dell!🤣😂

If your mac can’t handle it, your mac maintenance is pretty bad. There’s no reason it shouldn’t be handling it

The real test would be to plug in your dj set up

MacBook over hyped 🤦🏾‍♂️

Of course the dell gonna perform better lol it’s not loaded with music 😂😂

The issue is people buy cheap windows machines that are usually underpowered, under spec'd and terrible. A competent windows machine with a i5, 8-16GB RAM and an SSD will crush a macbooks performance. For this use case. Forget it if you took a solid $1000 pc vs a $1000 mac. There is a reason gamers game on windows.

I have both mac and windows, and windows perform a lot better than macs, no need to spend thousands on a laptop to DJ with, which you've just proved. A top producer told me that macs are over hyped and windows is the better PC for music.