It will drain the battery at full load, the i9 is a 45 watt TDP and the RX 5500M is 85 watt TDP (plus display, ram, disk, etc).
However, there's no way the cooling on the laptop can support that much power draw, so I'd expect it to throttle itself way before you'd drain the battery while plugged in.
I've been holding onto my 2015 MacBook pro now for ages, waiting and waiting.
I'd like to see the touchbar disappear completely, and the function keys return - but the real escape key and no butterfly keyboard is enough of a change that I think I can finally buy another MacBook!!
It was definitely off the cards for a few years there, and I was starting to wonder what I was going to do!
I DJ in nightclubs at the weekends, just Friday and Saturday nights but manage to make about 40-50% of my full-time salary for say 8-10 hrs/week.
Started it in University as a hobby, and just built it up from there. 20 years later, still doing it (although never once imagined I still would be)
Extremely thankful for it, has helped to weather the storms a few times between job changes and has provided me and my family with a few extra little luxuries that we may not have otherwise been able to afford!
> I've never gotten the same emotional connection with CDJs nor Ableton. However the audience wouldn't experience that.
>They will if you're good at your craft.
This - 100%. I can't agree more. When you feel what you're doing, the audience should feel it also. That's what keeps me doing it now after 20+ years (when I don't really have to, in order to pay the bills anymore!). It's that moment, of a connection, and the spine tingling chill/buzz you get when you pull off a great mix in the moment and the audience feel it too.
That wasn't what I was arguing though. I was saying vinyl feels nicer because it's more tactile but the audience shouldn't be groping your record collection.
Feeling the music (rather than touching the media) is a different matter. You can emotionally connect with the music being played regardless of the playback medium.
While I sort of agree with the sentiment of this, I really can't see any downside to learning how to do a decent mix on a pair of turntables. It helps to break things down to the bare minimums, no fx, no beat-sync, nothing. Basically, if you can pull off a great mix with just two dekcs and a mixer, you'll be fine to move forward with whatever else you choose to use.
Plus you know (and hopefully respect) where it all started / came from.
Me neither - I resisted joining Facebook from day one. I never felt the need nor do I feel like I'm missing anything! At the end of the day its just a personal choice and I also don't feel the need to tell everyone about it (current post excepted of course! but this is literally the first time I have ever mentioned it in any kind of forum/post)
It's not totally terrible, but I do think its lacking without some Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul or maybe even The Roots for example - its quite Rap based and Rap != HipHop.
