Hi, Only the retina model Macbook pros, and all Macbook airs do not have optical drives. You can get a non retina 2012 Macbook pro and it will have an optical drive and firewire 800 which is backwards compatible with firewire 400.
hth Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Apr 25, 2013, at 7:14 PM, Karen Lewellen <klewel...@shellworld.net> wrote: > Hi folks, > Granted I could ask this on the pro tools list too. > Still I really enjoyed the wisdom Anita got when she was putting hers > together, and I have some of the same goals. > Let me ask the more pro-tools like question first however. > My desire will be a laptop. I want to put things together much the way > people guided Anita to doing, being sure I still has a cd optical drive being > very very sure I can still have firewire 400 access. I use a digi 002, and > want absolutely to connect this device to the machine. I think there is > still an adapter for this if needful. > Now, my goal would be if I can to put what I want together, but pick it up in > store, the apple store here in Toronto where I intend taking advantage of the > in store training apple provides. > I want to support this effort with my business. > Assuming I can actually finance the machine in the first place smiles, can I > 1, still find a laptop with the sort of firewire connection required for the > digi 002? That one is for those on list here who can answer that. > 2, if I follow the steps in the other thread choosing the size and other > pieces I desire can I indeed place the order either on the phone, on line, > or in a store with the item going to a store for pick up? > I imagine this will be a unit or so back, which is perfectly okay. > My registered copy of pro-tools goes back a bit. it is critical that I can > connect the digi if this is impossible, then I will either wait to get the > new mac, or get one still with things like the cd optical drive and be sure > I can connect other aspects of production to that machine. > I know I will be using the full sized keyboard I have with this older mac > anyway, so I can type normally lol. > > I have an older mac here already that I use for production now. > I know that seems confusing, but trust me lol. > Let me stop here, as I am wanting to be very firm about what I do not wish to > negotiate on smiles. > Thanks, > Karen > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
