I have a second notebook, a Lenovo X61, that I use sometimes for mobile-disco parties (I hook it up to my DJ controller) and for clubs and pubs when I have to DJ. In fact, I will be taking it to the club tonight and testing it out for the first time. I have always taken my Dell Vostro 1400 but the notebook is too heavy. Besides, that is my primary notebook that I use on a daily basis. I hooked this up to a gig I was doing last Friday and it performed OK. What I am worried about is the age of the notebook because if it dies, there goes my night. I think it will perform ok. Just have to get some isolators for it.
I bought this Hercules DJ Console MK4 MIDI controller today. Cost me less than $300. Pretty well-built unit for the price and performance is pretty good. You get Virtual DJ LE with this and it is more than good enough for what you may put this baby through. I hooked it up to an old Lenovo Thinkpad X61 and it was able to handle the goods. These were some issues with some MP3s but I put that down to the old computer and the dodgy USB port. I was mixing with it for a greater part of this evening. The only downside is that it does not have gain controls. But for the price, you pretty much a have a solid unit. My first foray into the digital world. Lets hope the digital world is kind to me.
I have a Lenovo x61. It is a pretty good laptop, although its small form factor means that the thing gets heated up quite a lot. But all in all, it is a pretty good laptop and is quite stable. I decided that the 120Gb hard drive was not going to last for very long, and knowing my penchant for having things new if possible, I decided to go with an upgrade to this laptop. So I spent $72 and the hard-drive was mine. Put the old hard drive in an external casing and it will become yet another one of my many backup external drives. I tried it out and it works a treat. Its time for a reload folks!
I do not know if it was lackluster sales at Best Buy that caused HP to rethink its webOS strategy. One does not become a tablet computer superpower overnight. These things take time. But apparently, according to this article in The Register, it seems that “HP also confirmed that it is considering a spinoff of its PC business”. Seems that all the negative press on cyberspace is finally taking its toll, or it wants to follow IBM‘s example by spinning off its PC and laptop business, something IBM did years ago when they sold it to Lenovo. Looks like dark skies ahead at HP.
