Desktop vs. Laptop

[bryant]

Originally Posted by computex13

Don't do many shows anymore, but my laptop has always worked like a charm. If something every happened to it, I would go rack mount.

I use a laptop on nights when my wife has the shuttle, although both of us carry a back-up laptop too.

Once I lost a video card at a show, and another time the adapter cord failed, and both times I went to the backup.

I actually got a call from another DJ a few years ago who asked me to take over his shows as he had lost his laptop functionality during a show with NO back-up there in place. I think he was too embarrassed to return
as a DJ/KJ.

IT IS REALLLLLYYY RISKY relying on solely a laptop at a show. I recommened having at least two there, or a desktop with a karaoke machine up and ready to go. Although carrying MORE stuff around defeats the purpose,I understand.

I may be a little luckier than most as all my gigs, and the new ones I mentioned in a different post are ALL within a mile of each other and within a mile of my house, several of them I use the "house" equipment, the others are secure enough to keep my stuff on stage there. The most I would ever have to walk in a storm with would be two laptops and a mixer.