Thanks for those thoughts. Yeah I'm confidednt of the performance of these new macbooks, but funnily enough I'm having trouble figuring the macbook pro vs retina thing on the mac website....maybe the macbook pro without retina are restricted to dual core processors an d8 gigs ram or something, must check again.
One thing swaying me back to buying a purpose built laptop for windows to tie me over is I can get one with two internal hard rivdes, one ssd and one sata 7200 rpm like you say without ruining my warrantee. If I remember correctly dropping in a new hard drive into a macbook is an issue there, but I guess you coul dalways swop it back if an issue arose, but that's not particularly honest. Brian. From: TheOreoMonster Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 12:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Some boot camp questions quick responses very much appreciated Any of the current Gen mac book pros or mac book pros retina should be fine. When you Boot Camp, apple provides you with all the windows drivers for the internal hardware of that speciffic computer so everything will work well under windows. If you get a current gen mac book pro with 8 or 16gb of ram it will handle sonar and etc fine. The advantage to a macbook pro over a mac book retina is you can remove the cd rom drive and put in a second HD f you want anduse the CD rom drive as an external drive. If you travel alot this allows you to have two internal drives and not have to worry abut an external HD. As far as the second drive or external HD you want that one to be a 7200 rpm drive or higher, not a solid state drive as those aren't made to handle being constantly written to like they would be when recording. It can handle it fine but it will shorten the life of solid state drives the more you constatntly write to them as in a recording session. Solid state drives are fine for the main boot drives and I highly recommend them for that. On Feb 26, 2013, at 6:23 AM, Brian Casey wrote: Thanks Chris, From: Chris Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 11:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Some boot camp questions quick responses very much appreciated Hire Brian. I use a macbook in my studio, and though its not anywhere near professional, I don't have any problems with it, and its far from new, or even good spec. On the boot camp side, I rub that too, and it seems to do fine, although I only use it for less than demanding tasks. One thing I particularly like is that you can use the headphone jack, and the laptop speakers at the same time. Not sure if this is intentional, but its cool anyways. Only thing I'd say, is probably avoid windows 8, as I find a lot of times the sound doesn't load up on start-up and I am forced to use a braille display to get it back. I know nothing about drives, other than that I an using a western digital drive. Anyways, hope I helped somewhat, and hopefully someone with more knowledge of these subjects can step in and tell you more. HTH, Sent from my iPad On 26 Feb 2013, at 08:25, "Brian Casey" <[email protected]> wrote: Hey all, Appologies firstly, as some of these questions aren't directly PT related, but they all relate to me jumping back into protools, and really this list is the best knowledge base for this. Basically my studio windows machine is giving trouble and the daw builder in the UK I got it from is being very awkward with tech support, but my studio business is getting busier and busier and I'm under a lot of pressure. I had planned on getting a laptop to complement my windows daw as I travel a bit and it would allow me to keep up with editing etc, and for affordability I was going to go windows custom daw again with the laptop, particularly as I don't feel I have time to get up to speed with protools having dipped my toes in with it right when 8.0.4 came out and I had access to a mac/pt rig. Anyway, with my studio machine embarrassing me in front of clients and my previous wish to have a mobile solution, I'm now thinking I'll get a top of the range macbook and it should be more powerful than my 2 years old 2.8 ghz quad core i5 windows machine, so it could function as my windows based daw, and I can in parallel be getting propperly comfortable with VO on the OSX side of my system partition. I need this machine soon so any contributions from listers would be appreciated on the following: 1. anyone here running a studio off a Macbook. I know technically bang for buck is never as good in terms of processing heft etc when you go for the mobile solutions, but stability etc should be fine shouldn't it? Apple can be trusted on this front surely? 2. One of the reasons I decided a macbook is the best choice for me even running windows is that I'll need an internal audio chip in whatever system I get for jaws feedback, but this would kind of throw a cat in amung the pigeons when buying a windows custom daw, but I'm thinking the apple internal audio chip probably works flawlessly with windows and doesn't tend to clash with hardware/sequencers etc on the windows side. Is this a fair assumtion to make? To me it may seem like a safer bet than some windows based laptop using a real teq chip or god knows what not. It’s a bit more of a known quantity. 3. On the same note, I know that under the mac os the core audio and internal soun dchip in the macbook is perfectly acceptable and can run at acceptable latencies with logic or even PT for mixing etc when on the go, would the same hold true on the windows side. How for example would that built in hardware work for me with sonar to tie me over while I get ready to jump to pt. Are there asio/wdm drivers that run well with the apple audio hardware in the macbook or what's the story there. 4. A more PT related question. Anyone have recommendations with regard to external thunderbolt/usb 3.0 drives. I take it 7200 rpm sata drives are still a better choice than solid state in this regard, has avid given the green light to any thunderbolt stuff yet? Is anyone using/liking anything in particular for their audio drive? All other thoughts on that side of things are welcome. I willl post these questions on midi mag also, but there aren't so many mac users there, so I hope you all forgive the relatively off topic post as I'm in a bit of a professional crisis. I'd have much prefered to gentley get into the world of mac/pt in a years time or more like I had planned, but circumstances right now seem to point to it being a good choice to go with mac now. 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