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Should i buy this laptop for Djing?
Posted on: 19.08.2013 by Shonna Trantow
The lenovo y410p http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops...10p/index.html

I'm planning on using it for school and Djing as well.
Delena Katherman
25.08.2013
Originally Posted by AllDay
Ill stop posting my opinion and just let things be!
I don't believe anyone was disputing your opinion. They were just trying to clarify that your option for an external hard drive would still give you moving parts, which would essentially be the same situation as this computer (albeit the moving parts would not be IN the laptop itself). I believe you just confused us, and we were disputing the "facts" as we saw it, not your opinion that you prefer no moving parts.

Anyway, moving on.
Rolanda Clodfelder
23.08.2013
Originally Posted by smiTTTen
Come on lads. Play nice or we'll have to bring the lock.
Tera Baragan
23.08.2013
Originally Posted by smiTTTen
Come on lads. Play nice or we'll have to bring the lock.
Ill stop posting my opinion and just let things be!
Rolanda Clodfelder
23.08.2013
Originally Posted by AllDay
Thanks for trying to prove me wrong on my opinion lmao. Deevey your a joke.

My whole point was that it was my opinion and that I see ssd as an option for not having moving parts. Anything else you post just makes you look like an arrogant idiot.
Sorry if it came across that way, you are welcome to your opinions.

I was actually /threading on My own comment about the OP's original question being is it a decent laptop for his needs, which it is for the price - question pretty much answered ?
Tera Baragan
23.08.2013
Originally Posted by deevey
*cough*

[/thread]
Thanks for trying to prove me wrong on my opinion lmao. Deevey your a joke.

My whole point was that it was my opinion and that I see ssd as an option for not having moving parts. Anything else you post just makes you look like an arrogant idiot.
Ulysses Vittetoe
23.08.2013
Originally Posted by AllDay
So you dont have moving parts.. :/ the main point of why i even posted in here lmao
You still have moving parts with an external hard drive. Why do you seem to believe its any different if they're in the extra hard drive bay in your laptop case? Lol
Erica Charvet
23.08.2013
Originally Posted by Rhashime
This would be way more than you need. I bought a T400 ('08-09 model) Thinkpad model off eBay for less than 200 and it is a workhorse of a DJ computer. You don't need much.
The T-Series laptops are business-class machines, and are workhorses indeed.

Unfortunately, the Y-Series are consumer grade. The specs are pretty good for the price, but quality control with consumer machines is fairly poor and build quality not up to constant use like you are putting it up to. Internal components are cheap, and drivers are less trustworthy.

I'd look elsewhere, even if it means a used business machine. And the comment I saw earlier about Macs "never crashing, hence why DJ's use them" is crap.
Rolanda Clodfelder
24.08.2013
Originally Posted by frankle
http://www.hidevolution.com/clevo-hi...ng-laptop.html

More money but the matte screen at 1920x1080 would be so much better ...
Its also a "Clevo" ... having run across them a few times in the past I'd run a mile.
Tera Baragan
23.08.2013
Originally Posted by firebr4nd
How is that any different than just spending the extra cash upfront to get both inside of your laptop? You also don't need to carry around extra stuff. You can replace a laptop ssd/hdd that fails really easily in the off chance either fails.
So you dont have moving parts.. :/ the main point of why i even posted in here lmao
Delena Katherman
25.08.2013
Originally Posted by AllDay
Ill stop posting my opinion and just let things be!
I don't believe anyone was disputing your opinion. They were just trying to clarify that your option for an external hard drive would still give you moving parts, which would essentially be the same situation as this computer (albeit the moving parts would not be IN the laptop itself). I believe you just confused us, and we were disputing the "facts" as we saw it, not your opinion that you prefer no moving parts.

Anyway, moving on.
Rolanda Clodfelder
23.08.2013
Originally Posted by smiTTTen
Come on lads. Play nice or we'll have to bring the lock.
Len Lukawski
23.08.2013		Noted.
Tera Baragan
23.08.2013
Originally Posted by smiTTTen
Come on lads. Play nice or we'll have to bring the lock.
Ill stop posting my opinion and just let things be!
Len Lukawski
23.08.2013		Come on lads. Play nice or we'll have to bring the lock.
Rolanda Clodfelder
23.08.2013
Originally Posted by AllDay
Thanks for trying to prove me wrong on my opinion lmao. Deevey your a joke.

My whole point was that it was my opinion and that I see ssd as an option for not having moving parts. Anything else you post just makes you look like an arrogant idiot.
Sorry if it came across that way, you are welcome to your opinions.

I was actually /threading on My own comment about the OP's original question being is it a decent laptop for his needs, which it is for the price - question pretty much answered ?
Tera Baragan
23.08.2013
Originally Posted by deevey
*cough*

[/thread]
Thanks for trying to prove me wrong on my opinion lmao. Deevey your a joke.

My whole point was that it was my opinion and that I see ssd as an option for not having moving parts. Anything else you post just makes you look like an arrogant idiot.
Ulysses Vittetoe
23.08.2013
Originally Posted by AllDay
So you dont have moving parts.. :/ the main point of why i even posted in here lmao
You still have moving parts with an external hard drive. Why do you seem to believe its any different if they're in the extra hard drive bay in your laptop case? Lol
Erica Charvet
23.08.2013
Originally Posted by Rhashime
This would be way more than you need. I bought a T400 ('08-09 model) Thinkpad model off eBay for less than 200 and it is a workhorse of a DJ computer. You don't need much.
The T-Series laptops are business-class machines, and are workhorses indeed.

Unfortunately, the Y-Series are consumer grade. The specs are pretty good for the price, but quality control with consumer machines is fairly poor and build quality not up to constant use like you are putting it up to. Internal components are cheap, and drivers are less trustworthy.

I'd look elsewhere, even if it means a used business machine. And the comment I saw earlier about Macs "never crashing, hence why DJ's use them" is crap.
Rolanda Clodfelder
24.08.2013
Originally Posted by frankle
http://www.hidevolution.com/clevo-hi...ng-laptop.html

More money but the matte screen at 1920x1080 would be so much better ...
Its also a "Clevo" ... having run across them a few times in the past I'd run a mile.
Margareta Mogilevsky
24.08.2013		http://www.hidevolution.com/clevo-hi...ng-laptop.html

More money but the matte screen at 1920x1080 would be so much better ...
Rolanda Clodfelder
23.08.2013
Or you can have the ssd like in the macbook air and get an external HD for 100 bucks and have no moving parts and a laptop that should last ages.
*cough*

I have a macbook pro, with 2 spinny platter hard drives that have lasted ages. Out of ten 2.5' hard drives I've owned in the past few years I had one HDD failure which due to a system fan failing, an SSD would have most likely died as well.

Hard Drives Fail, but these days are pretty darn reliable 99.99% these days (I have a 320gb and 500gb in my Macbook Pro for the past 2 years).

SSD's have plenty of their own bugs to contend with too and in alot of cases all the data is rendered completely un-recoverable.

Sure I get that you believe the reason for SSD is no-moving parts, but plenty of others just care about how fast the experience is overall and manufactures to be fair, only care that the machine outlives its warranty expiry date.

1. The macbook air is almost twice the price of this machine.
2. Most people who buy laptops just want something that will work out of the box without needing to plug extra devices in.
3. If you want a Full SSD machine its not difficult to replace the 2.5 "cheap" hard drive with a 2.5 SSD.

Bottom line: its a decent machine with decent specs if you can't afford or simply don't desire a Macbook Pro.

[/thread]
Tera Baragan
23.08.2013
Originally Posted by firebr4nd
How is that any different than just spending the extra cash upfront to get both inside of your laptop? You also don't need to carry around extra stuff. You can replace a laptop ssd/hdd that fails really easily in the off chance either fails.
So you dont have moving parts.. :/ the main point of why i even posted in here lmao
Ulysses Vittetoe
22.08.2013
Originally Posted by AllDay
Or you can have the ssd like in the macbook air and get an external HD for 100 bucks and have no moving parts and a laptop that should last ages.
How is that any different than just spending the extra cash upfront to get both inside of your laptop? You also don't need to carry around extra stuff. You can replace a laptop ssd/hdd that fails really easily in the off chance either fails.
Tera Baragan
22.08.2013
Originally Posted by deevey
To the majority (?) of people Its about speed, they couldnt care less if it had more moving parts so long as its faster ..

Although its also about money ...

whacking the same about of SSD storage in that laptop's would bring it up another $600-700. Which would certainly not make it as attractive a purchase given that the majority (?) of people they will never hit the bottleneck of speed in normal use,

However they would notice that the system boots super fast and Ram (or lack of) becomes less of an issue in order for run things smoothly as VM is running off the (admittedly tiny) SSD.
Or you can have the ssd like in the macbook air and get an external HD for 100 bucks and have no moving parts and a laptop that should last ages.
Rolanda Clodfelder
22.08.2013
Originally Posted by AllDay

SSD to me is to get rid of moving parts altogether. Thats just my 2cents.
To the majority (?) of people Its about speed, they couldnt care less if it had more moving parts so long as its faster ..

Although its also about money ...

whacking the same about of SSD storage in that laptop's would bring it up another $600-700. Which would certainly not make it as attractive a purchase given that the majority (?) of people they will never hit the bottleneck of speed in normal use,

However they would notice that the system boots super fast and Ram (or lack of) becomes less of an issue in order for run things smoothly as VM is running off the (admittedly tiny) SSD.
Tera Baragan
22.08.2013
Originally Posted by firebr4nd
You put your programs and operating system on the ssd and your pictures and movies and other files on the hdd. The programs load faster/run better because they're on the ssd, and you have more storage space for files without spending tons on ssd storage space. It's standard practice these days until ssds get much cheaper.
Lol I understand people I just dont see the point!

SSD to me is to get rid of moving parts altogether. Thats just my 2cents.
Ulysses Vittetoe
22.08.2013
Originally Posted by AllDay
But the whole point of the SSD is to get rid of moving parts.. lmao
You put your programs and operating system on the ssd and your pictures and movies and other files on the hdd. The programs load faster/run better because they're on the ssd, and you have more storage space for files without spending tons on ssd storage space. It's standard practice these days until ssds get much cheaper.
Janeen Tarricone
22.08.2013		This would be way more than you need. I bought a T400 ('08-09 model) Thinkpad model off eBay for less than 200 and it is a workhorse of a DJ computer. You don't need much.
Irmgard Sandness
22.08.2013
Originally Posted by AllDay
But the whole point of the SSD is to get rid of moving parts.. lmao
Right. But sometimes you still need more storage space. SSD is still expensive compared to a spinning disk. This gives you the best of both.
Tera Baragan
19.08.2013
Originally Posted by firebr4nd
The hdd is for storage while the ssd is for running programs.
But the whole point of the SSD is to get rid of moving parts.. lmao
Len Lukawski
19.08.2013		Good Man.
Myrta Neweii
19.08.2013		Hahaha. Challenge accepted.
Len Lukawski
19.08.2013		Video or it isn't true!
Myrta Neweii
19.08.2013		i7 running at 2.4 GHz will let you do pretty much anything you want unless you're doing everything at once. I have an i7 at 2.9 GHz and I can basically run Ableton with Traktor while on Skyrim stabbing dragons all while writing an essay. Do it.
Brunilda Kora
19.08.2013		My God - 'puters are cheap in the U.S!!!
Len Lukawski
19.08.2013		I put ssds in all the machines we run at home. Feel like I've ruined myself now. Any time I'm forced to interact with a non-ssd machine my blood pressure shoots up, I get the sweats and suddenly feel the urge to verbally abuse anyone in a 50 meter radius.
Ulysses Vittetoe
19.08.2013
Originally Posted by AllDay
WHats the point of the ssd when it still has 1gb of hd lol.
The hdd is for storage while the ssd is for running programs.
Joella Uscanga
19.08.2013		@AllDay Having the OS and the programs on the SSD will increase the overall speed of the computer,because an SSD doesn't have to always spin a disk(and also is quieter,but it is also expensive).

@Zolo Almost any laptop is great for DJing but a better spec computer means a smaller chance to crash(and a macbook means zero chances to crash,this is why DJ's usually buy macbook,but the price is higher too)
Tera Baragan
19.08.2013		WHats the point of the ssd when it still has 1gb of hd lol.
Rufus Ondrick
19.08.2013		i'd buy it, the specs alone are pretty good for this price but im not a big fan of the os though. and it looks nice

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