I've always been a mac kinda guy, for nearly 20 years now and when DJ'ing, certainly in the last 10 or so years, the MacBook Pro was always my weapon of choice. My laptop bag was stolen out of my car in October last year and whilst I didn't bother replacing it straight away because here in the UK we've not really been able to do parties properly until the 19th of July, I never bothered buying another laptop.
I did however buy the Mac Mini M1 for office work and was quite a useful machine. In fact I did take it out and did a few gigs with it and it worked well with a portable USB-C 4K display. But I'll be honest, it was a bit of a headache carrying the wires, the keyboard and mouse, etc.
A few weeks ago I faced a dilemma...parties were starting again and I needed a laptop. The Air M1 has a great price right now and there were plenty of buying opportunities for M1 MacBook Pro's as well but when it came to saving a bit of money, I leaned more towards the Air. Surely it was powerful enough to run Rekordbox?
Anyway, I bit the bullet and picked up a 16GB / 1TB MacBook Air and am happy to report it works just fine. No more MacBook pro's for me!
I did however buy the Mac Mini M1 for office work and was quite a useful machine. In fact I did take it out and did a few gigs with it and it worked well with a portable USB-C 4K display. But I'll be honest, it was a bit of a headache carrying the wires, the keyboard and mouse, etc.
A few weeks ago I faced a dilemma...parties were starting again and I needed a laptop. The Air M1 has a great price right now and there were plenty of buying opportunities for M1 MacBook Pro's as well but when it came to saving a bit of money, I leaned more towards the Air. Surely it was powerful enough to run Rekordbox?
Anyway, I bit the bullet and picked up a 16GB / 1TB MacBook Air and am happy to report it works just fine. No more MacBook pro's for me!