Re: OT: new Macbook wíthOUT Firewire :(

["Per Boysen" <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Buzap Buzap <buzap@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> now, this is really off topic, but I wanted to let off some steam:
> For a laptop setup, I was waiting for the new MacBook to come out. Now, 
>it is there and: it has NO FIREWIRE INTERFACE anymore!!!
>
> Obviously, for looping this really sucks. Now, what to do?


Buy an older model:
http://www.apple.com/macbook/white/specs.html

The new MacBooks (2.0 or 2.4 GHz) feature a 1066 MHz frontside bus in
contrast to the MacBook White's (2.1 Ghz) 800 MHz fontside bus. Both
Intel Core 2 Duo processors with 3MB on-chip shared L2 cache running
1:1 with processor speed. I use the old 2.2 GHz MacBook White and find
it fully sufficient. I would think different though if I was up to
making multi track recordings, as when recording twenty mic inputs at
one go. But for everything else FW 400 is as good as FW 800.


> I would be willing to pay extra $$ for a 12"/13" MacBookPro if it had 
>firewire, but there is none.

Same solution available here: get the older model. Personally I would
not buy anything new that is marketed by "New design. New features.
New technologies. All engineered to standards that don't even exist
yet." (quoting Apple)


> I was really getting comfortable on the Mac OSX platform with Logic and 
>now (finally :-)
> with Moebius on Mac.

I suggest you get a Windows XP license and use Apple's BootCamp to run
it on the Mac!

I've just been around doing a bunch of gigs with Mobius VST/Windows
(on the MacBook) and I think a small miracle would be needed to get
the same performance power into the Mac version. My experience so far
is that for live processing of a live audio input Windows works better
(meaning zero tolerance for drop-outs or any kind of audio artifacts).
Then I have been a pro user of Mac since the early nineties and I do
prefer Mac OS X for everything else  ;-)

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