How well does DP do with a 999oo Mac Book

[toodamnhip]

I have a little prodigy of a daughter and I am thinking of getting her the bottom level 999oo Mac Book.

I am curious as to how easily I will be able to set up a DP system on it for her.
Does anyone here have experience with this?

What inexpensive audio/MIDI interface can I buy for it that would allow for one mic pre, a controller and output to a pair of monitors?
It appears to have one firewire 400 port, two usb 2.0 ports, and an ethernet port, with mini pin audio ins and outs.

thanks for all your help in advance!!

Dave

[Frodo]

Here's one idea for a start:

Samson G-Track: "Samson's G-Track is the world's first USB condenser microphone with a built-in audio interface and mixer, allowing simultaneous input of vocals along with guitars, bass, or keyboard while also providing monitoring through an on board headphone output."

Looks expensive, but it's about $150.

[daniel.sneed]

Find an old MacBook, cause last ones don't have FireWire any more.

Mine is fine with 10.4.11 and DP6.
It's been even better with 2Go ram and 7200RPM hard disk.

[gearboy]

The MacBook is now the white computer only and it has firewire. All of the MacBook Pros also have firewire, although only FW800.

Jeff

[mike_o]

running dp on a 2.1ghz/4gb ram macbook and loving it every step, good luck.

[Armageddon]

I have a 2007 (black) MacBook 2 GHz with 2 GBs of RAM and it runs DP 6.02 pretty nicely, though I'm still planning on cloning off my hard drive to a third of a terabyte 7200 rpm drive (they come stock with slower drives) and I sadly don't have the ability to install two more GBs of RAM on my machine. A year ago, I scored a film in DP 5.13 on this rig and was outputting hi-def QT video via my DVI output to an old analog TV set (for this, you'll need the Apple breakout box with an RCA and S-VHS video output, which costs about 20 bucks) while running four or five VIs at 24-bit/96 kHz. Also, all Macs, even the lowly MacBook, come stock with 96 kHz S/PDIF 1/8" digital outputs on a combo jack that doubles as your speaker/headphone outs. The newer white rigs come with larger hard drives and the ability to load up to 4 GBs of RAM, so you should definitely be fine.