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Right when I was getting ready to upgrade to a new MacPro I now find myself also having to get a new laptop since my old iBook just ate it••™s HD for the second time in about six months.

I guess I••™ll just get the 2.2 MacBookPro Intel Core Duo w/2GB of Ram because all I••™ve ever used my laptops for is Email, writing some Word docs and general web-surfing. Since I••™m still going to get the MacPro in the next couple of months to run DP and a few plugins, I••™m wondering if anyone would advice me on if I might be able to also load a copy of DP onto this new MacBook Pro, where I could via a firewire HD holding the audio files, be able to do some ••œat home••

I used DP5 on a macbook pro Core duo for a few days and it was great.

At least as fast or faster than a mid range dual g5 tower.

There are a number of DP users here who use a core 2 duo macbook pro or an imac (macbook w/o wheels, basically) as their main machine. There have been some threads about how happy they are.

Hopefully some will also chime in here.

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I run a first generation MacBook Pro (Core Duo, not Core Duo 2).

I do recommend loading up on the RAM. I have a full 2gb in my MacBook.

As I type this, DP is playing 44 tracks from the internal drive with no problems. I do all my tracking and mixing from the internal drive. I only use external drives for short term backup.

Altiverb is in every mix I do. I have yet to hit the wall in terms of tracks and effects. Surround mixing works great.

I use this machine to demo Ethno, MSI, and lately Mach Five 2.

Eleven thumbs up!

Magic Dave

Yeah My MBP (first gen also) is handling all my need without any problem.

ditto (MBP 2.33 GHz- 2GB Ram)

MBP 2.33 Core 2 Duo w/ 2GB RAM - my primary DP machine. It's awesome.

In fact, just yesterday I recorded 6 hours of 16 channels of audio (live outdoor gig)...not a single problem.

magicd wrote: As I type this, DP is playing 44 tracks from the internal drive with no problems. I do all my tracking and mixing from the internal drive. I only use external drives for short term backup.

Is this a 7200 rpm hard disk or the stock 5400?

I'm asking because i'm considering getting the new MBP and was wondering whether i needed to change the hard disk that comes with it...

Thank you

HooVoo wrote:

magicd wrote: As I type this, DP is playing 44 tracks from the internal drive with no problems. I do all my tracking and mixing from the internal drive. I only use external drives for short term backup.

Is this a 7200 rpm hard disk or the stock 5400?

I'm asking because i'm considering getting the new MBP and was wondering whether i needed to change the hard disk that comes with it...

Thank you

Thanks to all for chiming in. I'd also like to know if you MBP users have upgraded to a 7200 rpm internal HD. Coming from a desk top with multi internal HD's and running system separately from audio and VI's, I'm just a little unsure still. So, IS IT SAFE?

Well I bought mine with a 5400rpm because they didn't have any other in stock and I neede it fast. Since then I've been supposed to upgrade it but I've always been in the middle of something so I didn't got the chance to do it yet...

Even with the 7200RPM OF COURSE IT'S NOT GOING TO COMPETE WITH A PAIR OF 10RPM HDs.

But I was still able to record a full 8 tracks from my 896HD for two hours straight without any problem.

Dwetmaster wrote:Yeah My MBP (first gen also) is handling all my need without any problem.

Hi your performance is in a macbook core2duo or macpro?

No problems here on Core2Duo MBP 2.33 with 3 GB Ram and the stock 5400rpm drive. I only track one track at a time in most cases, but I have been running audio off the internal. I use an external 7200 for the larger sample libraries such as BFD + Ivory.

Update to my original post.

After special ordering a MBP w/7200RPM drive and 4GB of RAM about month ago, I was told it would be back ordered for a couple of weeks. I thought, ok, I can deal with that. Well a couple of weeks turn into three then four. So I canceled my order and just went ahead and popped for a MacPro w/5GB of RAM. As it turns out this will be a much better machine for my needs.

But the story doesn't end there. I received my MP and dual monitors in two days, which was great after waiting a month for the MBP. Then two days later FedX shows up with? you got it, the MBP!

So tomorrow I'm shipping a perfectly good MBP back to where it came from. I wish I could keep it, but having it along with the MP would be just too much of a cash outlay right now.

If anyone is looking for a maxed out MBP, PM me and I'll let you know who the supplier and sales person is. It needs to find a good home.

whonozz wrote:Update to my original post.

After special ordering a MBP w/7200RPM drive and 4GB of RAM about month ago, I was told it would be back ordered for a couple of weeks. I thought, ok, I can deal with that. Well a couple of weeks turn into three then four. So I canceled my order and just went ahead and popped for a MacPro w/5GB of RAM. As it turns out this will be a much better machine for my needs.

But the story doesn't end there. I received my MP and dual monitors in two days, which was great after waiting a month for the MBP. Then two days later FedX shows up with? you got it, the MBP!

So tomorrow I'm shipping a perfectly good MBP back to where it came from. I wish I could keep it, but having it along with the MP would be just too much of a cash outlay right now.

If anyone is looking for a maxed out MBP, PM me and I'll let you know who the supplier and sales person is. It needs to find a good home.

I am looking for a MBP
i will PM you!

PM sent
or
email me
estudiovertigo@gmail.com (personal email)
thanks
Andre-

whonozz wrote:I guess I••™ll just get the 2.2 MacBookPro Intel Core Duo w/2GB of Ram because all I••™ve ever used my laptops for is Email, writing some Word docs and general web-surfing.

But if you got that Mac Pro, a simple MacBook might way more than enough to do your Emailing and surfing...