Importing Singer's CDG

[bryant]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

I only have one laptop I use for my back-up system. It is a Dell Latitude and an internal drive that works for CDG. It is always a shot in the dark because laptop makers use whatever they can get that is cheapest for them. I don't have any recommendations other than that for laptop internal drives.
All of my other systems for karaoke are custom built by me in small (Shuttle type) cases. Laptops to me are too prone to failure from heat due to compacted size. If you do have a failure a laptop needs to go to specialists who can change out the parts. With my systems I can change out the bad part very easily. I also can get exactly what I want for my components and not be stuck with what a manufacturer chooses for me.
I always recommend XP and you are not putting me on the spot because I thoroughly agree with MTU on this. I will not have a Vista system ever. Every system I have used or built have been XP since it came out and I refuse to bow down to the Microsoft God that wnats us to use Vista. XP is more stable, less complicated to run and is compatible with a lot of programs that Vista has major problems with.

I agree with Dale 100%. My wife uses a shuttle we custom built too. When I'm out during the week doing a few shows I bring and use a Dell laptop, but, as Dale said, they can be unreliable, and I have had my share of troubles with other DJ programs too, who all do NOT recommend the use of laptops. If you do use a laptop, you have to know that thing inside out and have a backup one right there at all times, as I do.

An f.y.i., my wife dropped the shuttle last week and it knocked the video card around enough so that we did not get a picture, she took it apart right there with a "phillips", pushed the card back in, unbent the frame a little and all was fine. That would have cost about 400 dollars with any laptop at a shop that "knows" laptop repair.