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    Posted: 30 August 2015 at 9:09pm
I'd probably hit the MBP road, probably an earlier model (2010-2012ish) so to get it cheap and slam an SSD where the DVD drive would normally be (look up OptiBay).
No reason to get a brand new pc for that use, I know you have no budget but overkill is overkill and used MBP's are damn cheap at the moment.
Think it is also worth to mention that a cheap pc will not endure, especially when used 5 hours straight while getting charged. To get a nice and solid laptop you'd spend as much as getting a MBP imho.
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Refurb/ ex lease Lenovo X and T series may be worth a look, 3000rpm usually have something decent in stock at reasonable prices.
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Originally posted by fatfreddiescat fatfreddiescat wrote:

Refurb/ ex lease Lenovo X and T series may be worth a look, 3000rpm usually have something decent in stock at reasonable prices.


Agreed or Dell Precision

http://mcscom.co.uk/shop/dell-laptops/precision-workstation-laptops/
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I have a refurbished DELL E6420.

I5 2.5 gig (Don't like heat issues from I7),

Upgraded to 16gb Mem, 2x internal 1TB Hard disks (Non SSD, 7200rpm,16mb cache each).

Prefer external E-sata DVD/RW, when they stop working, simple cheap replacement.

My Desktop of same spec, has been in storage for 1x year now.

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MBP W10!
 
Cheap as chips and nothing can even approach the Apple service, forget bootcamp blow OSX straight off it!
 
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hey

Yeah seems these days best thing is to get a good condition second hand MBP (people seem to take much better care of these than a PC Laptop) and Boot Camp it so you can use both windows and OSX as needed. 

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I am REALLY fond of Lenovo X and T series. Many companies are using these and you can get really good condition second hand ones. Second hand I'd go for T410 / X210 or newer. Current models are known as T450 / X250. Lenovo X/T and MBP are only laptops I respect.
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Originally posted by kevinmcdonough kevinmcdonough wrote:

hey

Yeah seems these days best thing is to get a good condition second hand MBP (people seem to take much better care of these than a PC Laptop) and Boot Camp it so you can use both windows and OSX as needed. 

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Originally posted by shagnasty shagnasty wrote:

Originally posted by kevinmcdonough kevinmcdonough wrote:

hey

Yeah seems these days best thing is to get a good condition second hand MBP (people seem to take much better care of these than a PC Laptop) and Boot Camp it so you can use both windows and OSX as needed. 

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Pro-tools and Traktor are much more stable on OSx lol, but yeah thats the only thing I use it for everything else it's PC all the way! Wink
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Originally posted by pfly pfly wrote:

I am REALLY fond of Lenovo X and T series. Many companies are using these and you can get really good condition second hand ones. Second hand I'd go for T410 / X210 or newer. Current models are known as T450 / X250. Lenovo X/T and MBP are only laptops I respect.


+1 we been usin a lenovo t series been solid and reliable even when used at a dance Big smile
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I wouldn't touch OSX for 'tools, you can't get a powerful Mac anymore, and Stable is no longer a word associated with OSX since they went intel...
 
I don't know what traktor is, but I am sure a monkey with an iPod may work as well.... Smile
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Hahaha Traktor is a DJ program, the other top of the tree one along with Serato

It's an Intel Mac I have, all be it an older one now, and seems to work just fine protools works great lol.
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