Personally I'd say get the solid state drive now upgrade RAM later. I have 2 current gen macs an air and iMac both with 4GB of Ram and both had handled mixing Pro Tools Projects with about 12 to 16 tracks and a healthy amount of plugins with no hiccups. As current Macs stand the hard drives in the stock default setups are the biggest bottle neck. That being said if all you can afford is a stock configuration That should still be more than enough to get you started, though at the very minimum I'd suggest the $50 to upgrade from a 54RPM stock drive to the 7200RPM version. On Feb 24, 2012, at 6:48 PM, Cameron Strife wrote:
> Hi. The 15 inch mac book pro with I7 processor is a great machine and > upgrading your ram to eight gigs would give you even more horsepower > for plug ins etc! I have one and use it all the time. I have a dual > boot system setup with Mac OS X on one half and Windows seven 64 bit > on the other half. (I have this setup on both of my macs.) > > Going for a solid state internal drive would be a wise choice too, but > personally, I'm waiting until price comes down. > > I have an older mac pro eight core desktop as well as my mbp. I love > my macs and I see no reason to return to pcs. > > You'll have thunderbolt as well as firewire 800 on your mac so you > will have a lot of powerful I/O choices, especially with what will be > coming out soon as far as interfaces, hds, and control surfaces etc. > > As far as pro tools, it's very important to really dig in to the > included documentation... > > Cameron. > > > > On 2/24/12, Chris Norman <chris.norm...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> Sure, email me off-list, and I'll send you me skype details. >> >> On 24/02/2012, Brian Howerton <bshowert...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I would like to talk to you a little bit before I get the Mac if that's >>> cool >>> to ask you a couple more questions so I can do it off list >>> >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> On Feb 24, 2012, at 8:09 AM, Chris Norman <chris.norm...@googlemail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I'm using a MacBook Pro 15" for all my recording, in fact, I'm using >>>> BootCamp from the same machine now to write you this email, so in >>>> short, they're awesome machines. >>>> >>>> As possibly one of the newest members to this list, I didn't find the >>>> very basics of Pro Tools too hard to get into. Alls I had were Kevin's >>>> podcasts, which I still refer too quite a lot, so once again, cheers >>>> Kevin, and the lovely people on this list putting up with my main >>>> disability, cronic stupidity LOL. >>>> >>>> So yeah, Pro Tools is great, OS X is great, VoiceOver's great, and >>>> Kevin's podcasts are great. If you feel you want a little more help >>>> when you get your mac etc, I don't mind talking to you on Skype, and >>>> sharing the little I know as a new PT user. >>>> >>>> As for textual documentation, I considered writing something like >>>> this, and I might yet, but so far as I know, we've only got the >>>> podcasts out there thus far. >>>> >>>> HTH, and I'm sure you're going to have a great time with PT! >>>> >>>> On 24/02/2012, Brian Howerton <bshowert...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> Hello all, >>>>> I am getting ready to take the mac plunge, and I was wondering what >>>>> people might would recommend. I am looking at getting the macbook pro >>>>> with the 15-inch monitor, and the quad cor i7 processor but upgrading >>>>> the drive to 8 gigs. Was kind of wondering what people are using who >>>>> are using the macbook pros for recording. Also, I have been doing >>>>> alot of reading on the voiceover screenreader getting the commands >>>>> under my belt before I purchase the mac so I won't have such a huge >>>>> learning curve ahead of me. My question on the protools side of >>>>> things is this: I know that Kevin Reeves has done 3 great podcasts on >>>>> using protools with voiceover, but I was wondering if anyone has >>>>> written any guides as far as using protools with voiceover or are >>>>> there any other podcast tutorials out there. I thought maybe that was >>>>> in the works, that someone was writing the textbooks for the protools >>>>> certification courses so that blind people could take those courses as >>>>> well. Just was wondering what is out there to learn the program with >>>>> voiceover if anything. Thank you for your help, >>>>> Brian >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Take care, >>>> >>>> Chris Norman. >>>> >>>> <!-- chris.norm...@googlemail.com --> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Take care, >> >> Chris Norman. >> >> <!-- chris.norm...@googlemail.com --> >>
