James Bond of Laptops?

[Bryan Durio]

OODJ = Object Oriented Disc Jockey rogrammer [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif[/img]

[Professor Jam]

roflmao - Bryan you're rotten lol

[CyFeR]

Good work Phil, I'm sure your top of the list of people to receive a new DAC-3 for review [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif[/img]

As for "off the shelf components in an off the shelf case"..... What, you want us to spend 5 years making a 10K OODJ with our own proprietary mother boards and processors? You can equally call any brand name laptop one stuffed with "off the shelf components". You know better than that, they all get their stuff from the same place we do.

The difference is the design and testing. Each piece of hardware selected was bench tested to perform the best with PCDJ software. Over $300K in R & D went into your simple explanation of the OODJ. It's not a laptop, it designed for one thing only, flawless performance, guaranteed. The insides are held to the case at 14 different points and in some areas, tack welded.

But your right, most of the guys buying it are the Corvette vs. mini van kinda guys. It's a killer toy and don't tell me you wouldn't gladly take one if we wanted a "review". It's just a high end option.

Donny, the DAC-3 is shipping in June, we should be uploading manuals and more technical docs to our website within the next couple of weeks. Good question about the back up facility? Sometimes I wonder where our web/marketing people come up with this stuff! I'll look into it but I think it means the dual 100 gigs could be configured in a RAID.

lol Bryan, you nailed it!


Andrew
PCDJ Team

[Cap]

Oh distinguished gurus of computer world [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif[/img] :

Help me here, please.

About 4 years ago, I bought a "state of the art" USB Touch Screen add-on. Slipped on top of my existing flat screen. Theoretically, a masterpiece. Oh boy, what a nightmare that investment turned out to be. But that was then, and this is now.

Other than the sensitivity issues, the older screens used a multilevel electro-sensitive liquid with smaller than hair grid systems. That liquid was totally reflective making any use of it in a brightly lighted or outdoor event impossible to see what was on the screen. Has that gotten any better?

[HeadlineDJ]

You're right Andrew, I'd be more than happy to review one, but in all honesty, I would not want one to keep or use for Djing.

It simply does not suit my needs and I would hate DJing with it.

To use one would mean I need a separate Mixer, separate controller, add in all the cables required to link that together, then I'd want the Screen in front of me, but then I'd also like my mixer and controller in front of me, by the time all this is setup I'd have at least 3 items perched in front of me, which at say a wedding would look cluttered.

Forget the looks, the Spin, the specs, it's all down to practicality as to why I wouldn't use one.

To me it's just like using a laptop to DJ with.. I'm a great advocate of practicality over compactability.

As for the DAC-3, to be totally honest with you, I think it's 2 years out of date, and that should have been the DAC-2.

I see it more as a side step really than a step forward, add to that it's now 1U larger, so many DJs will have to rebuild their flight cases in order to integrate it.

Obviously without getting my hands on one to try out, I see a row of looping buttons, larger shift button, couple extra buttons (which should be programable) and also the lack of the outer jog wheel.

Maybe an ordered list of comparisons between the DAC-2 and the DAC-3 would be a good idea?

That way you can quickly see by the black dots in the features lists which unit has what etc..

One step forward though is the light up buttons, that is a good step in the right direction.