I believe the 13 inch are the ones that are limited to dual core processors. gotta go with a 15 inch if you want quad core in a laptop. Yeah cuz its an after market mod you would have to siled out the drive bay and put the cdrom drive back in if you had to take it in. T That being said, I challenge you to name a PC maker who has a warranty like apple care despite the fact you will have to swap the original part back in.
On 2/26/13, Brian Casey <brian_w_ca...@hotmail.com> wrote: > 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: ptaccess@googlegroups.com > 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: ptaccess@googlegroups.com > 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" <brian_w_ca...@hotmail.com> > 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. > > Cheers, > Brian. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. 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