if im honest man, connecting turntables to a laptop can be a massive hassle, somtimes burning 10 CD's with 20 songs each on them is just way easier...spesh when your just starting out if its gonna be that much of a hassle you can look at CDJ400's or CDJ350's which will both connect to your computer and use your hard drive, both also take USB if you wanna go in that direction but be prepared to fork out a fair bit more for 400's or 350's then 200's... (DJing is a very expensive hobby,you have been warned )