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Do they have an express card? On Oct 15, 2008, at 5:15 AM, Per Boysen wrote: > 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 ;-) > > -- > Greetings from Sweden > > Per Boysen > www.boysen.se (Swedish) > www.looproom.com (international) > www.myspace.com/perboysen > www.stockholm-athens.com >