Re: Which macbook for live audio?

[Sylvain Poitras <sylvain.trombone@gmail.com>]

My suggestion is to buy the best computer you can afford.  Don't worry
about it being overkill...  it will be outdated soon enough (isn't
Live about due for an update?).

If you decide to buy a macbook, try to get one that comes with snow
leopard instead of Lion, since not every music software and plugins
cohabit with Lion yet (check you audio interface drivers).

You can usually get a good price on a recent model courtesy of the
crazy people who upgrade every year.  Local mac dealers (not the apple
store) might have refurbished macbooks for a bargain.

4gb of ram is the minimum I would consider, but life in 8gb land is
sweet (not so much for music, but for video rendering).  Ram is cheap
and computers need it to live.

Sylvain

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Simeon Harris
<simeonharris40@googlemail.com> wrote:
> per - i've noticed that live's plugins don't use any cpu when there's
> no audio passing through them (maybe not as efficiently as mainstage),
> but turning them off doesn't seem to make much difference and having
> lots of them in the set is possible without much of a cpu hit. it's
> very efficient.
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