On Wed, October 22, 2014 5:35 am, Kazakore wrote: > > On 21/10/14 21:12, Patrick Shirkey wrote: >> Every DJ I know uses a laptop > > But real DJs use vinyl No fans there!! ;-) It's rare to find a DJ that doesn't use a laptop at least some of a set these days. Nearly everyone has one. In my experience there's a greater risk of overheating without a fan and the ARM (allwinner) chipsets are prone to that. My bet is a low power x86 processor/unit with a (quiet) fan will out perform and outlast an ARM chipset without. But the difference is around $200 so you get what you pay for. IMO, it's still a big ask to expect a super cheap ARM device from a cheap Chinese manufacturer to perform to the same levels as a $300 x86 unit from Intel. The cheap chipsets are just not designed for professional level abuse especially from manufacturers like AllWinner/RockChip/MediaTek. The cheaper you go the less reliable/powerful they become. For example the a20's have to be clocked down if you don't want them overheating. They have an auto shutoff at 70degC which is surprisingly easy to trigger in a warm climate/room. You might get good results from Qualcomm or TI but I haven't used their chipsets. Some other people round here work for those companies though so they might be able to offer some insight. If I was performing and needed a linuxsampler/pianoteq/realtime synth unit I would go for a $500 i5 unit (incl fan), with a really fast SSD and 16GB DDR3 RAM as a baseline. I used a similar setup for a few years and never had any problems with fans. I also spent a lot more money and time on it too. It would have been great to have a portable quad core with 16GB of RAM and dual 1080p hdmi back then. That would have enabled me to achieve a lot more. Back then those kind of specs costs several thousand dollars and were definitely not portable. IIRC 8GB was the max for RAM too. So, spend a little more and get something really killer. Be glad you don't have to spend thousands any more to get something that can do almost everything you can throw at it. The difference between $50 and $500 is a few weeks work for most people earning a western income so it's worth the wait. -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
