I was considering exactly this and I chose a refurb macbook. (Black
one...$1099)
When purchased from apple they are warrantee them as a new box.
FW 800 is not a mandate for 'me'. FW400 and usb 2.0 get me threw the
day. That, coupled with 2.4 GHz 2mb Ram and 250 G hd work for me.
Hard drive and ram upgrades will be easy enuf in the future but get me
threw for the next year or so.
Ardour 2.5 SAE now works really well in OSX too.
The apple product is solid. They charge you for it.
FW800 is the MBpro only so that will bump you up a few $$ but if you
can get by w/ FW400 I'd encourage you to consider the previous
generation Macbook. (refurbished)
Hope this helps.
On Nov 24, 2008, at 7:16 PM, Eric Hedekar wrote:
The new macbooks don't even have firewire until you get into the pro
range. Why pay for the marketing hype?
-Eric
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Karoliina Salminen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
I think you could consider a Mac. The new unibody Macbook is pretty
nice.
I have the older model. It has Intel chipset, fast processor etc.
and you can
install Ubuntu-Studio on it with bootcamp. The internal audio
hardware is pretty good,
at least on MacOSX side there is no such thing as latency in the Logic
Studio (Logic Pro 8). I have not tested
Ubuntu Studio with it (the Ubuntu Studio is on a desktop PC). The fan
noise is low and
in general the laptop is very nice. The new model should be even
nicer. It is manufactured from
aluminum block with machining - awesome! I am pretty happy with the
Mac hardware, and I think it would worth to spend
the little premium also for a Linux machine to get the Apple HW. The
Macbook is quite reasonably priced.
http://www.apple.com/macbook/
Best Regards,
Karoliina
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