Actually, a variation on this question?
While avid still provides a recommended gear list for the pre 9 ish edition
of pro tools, it is a bit dated. In fact I can get an update from my source
over there, if I get no answer here.
Still some of the macbooks they recommended have been discontinued anyway.
So if you are 1, using a digi unit for mixing a 002 for example, and 2,
want to use one of the vo friendly editions of pt, what is the best macbook to
buy? I would really rather have a portable one than another desktop so I
can use it for more than just pro tools. i always get an external hard
drive for my work, and understand I may need some sort of firewire
adapter, but sweetwater sells those, so I am not worried.
Ideas?
Karen
On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, Monkey Pusher wrote:
So long as you don't get the apple branded optical drive and optical
drive would be less than and external Hard drive. Also the mini's are
quite portable as i briefly owned one of the server models mentioned
here. Only downside is no option for battery power, that being said
there is a 3rd party battery prick you can purchase for portable
juice. To answer your initial questions. In all honesty i think even
the 13" MBP would be sufficient for the work you do. Yeah you may hit
a wall at some point with number of plug ins or something like that.
but you should be find on the track count side and so long as you
don't plan on maxing out the number of plug ins and sends on every
channel. I would probably go for the 8GB of ram in either the Mini or
the MBP since those machines aren't as easy to open up and add ram to
later on.I started out using pro tools on a MBP with a core II Duo
and it handled around 10 tracks and some plug ins with no issues here.
On 10/21/11, Nickus de Vos <bigboy...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi
I looked at the mini server but the only problem I have with the new
one is it has no obtical drive. Sure you get a extra hard drive but I
would still prefer 1 hard drive and a obtical drive. If you run out of
space you can always get a external hard drive but as it is now, you
basically have to get a external obtical drive, yes I know there's
that thing of slaving another mac or pc's drive but that's just a
shlep.
