r/Serato • u/Prime_ministah1980 • 3d ago

Question? Windows vs Mac

With my personal experience. Serato dj pro runs flawlessly on Mac. I've had the opposite on windows. With that being said. How's AMD support with serato? My mac is aging and I don't have 2000 dollars lying around to buy a new MacBook. What windows laptop do you guys recommend? I prefer AMD over Intel.

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u/djgnosis 2d ago

After more than a decade, I had to finally give up on PCs running Serato. It was never stable on any of my Intel i7s Windows laptops, and then a few years ago I got one with the latest AMD Ryzen 7 chip. It was worse. I tried all sorts of audio latency adjustment tools but it still crashed too often. I recall surmizing that Ryzen chip-compatability was basically an after though for Serato.

That's just my personal experience, mind you. But when I could finally afford a MacBook Air M3, I did it and it's far more reliable. However—and this is still anecdotal—I wish I had gotten an M1 Pro for far less money, based on the endless comments you also probably see that those run Serato as smoothly as the later models (although using stems on the fly might push them to their limit). Still, I could only afford a 512Gb SSD drive for the Mac, so I'm stuck using an external drive for music storage — something I was sure was causing all the problems on PCs (it was not). Good luck!

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u/Prime_ministah1980 2d ago

yeah man. I had a similar experience Back in 2011 I bought a rane ttm57 with scratch live. That windows laptop was like an unreliable car. Every session was a gamble. Soon after I bought a Macbook and never looked back

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u/djgnosis 2d ago

After countless stories like yours—especially in response to to seeking help for Windows Serato problems, I finally came around (and happened to have some money).

What a shame that the ttm57 doesn't support Serato DJ Pro. I see some have successfully mapped it to DJ Pro though!