Re: Macbook Pro 2.26GHz OK for Audio Recording?

[Jim Goodin <jimgoodinmusic@gmail.com>]

Paul that sounds like the same machine I use which has been excellent (also bought used) except for one display issue that I'm told comes with the territory of 17" MBP's which mine is.  I've lived with it but the lower 1/3 of the display lost picture, which it's either an invertor board (does the back light) or it's time and separation between the display element and the backing which I've also been told.  Sometimes it pops in and goes off again.

Re the machine stability otherwise has been excellent and is my baby, probably too much.  I use it for Final Cut work, all audio production which includes Audacity, Reaper as post and the NinJam and I've used iSight for many of my webcast projects.  I also ran Mobius on it for a while which did great though I have since returned to a hardware looper.  I'm very dedicated to OSX though I use Windows in my work work and part of our household is Windows based but I find the Apple quite at home for all my music and video production needs.  Actually I think mine which is the first gen Intel Mac is 2.16Gz.  It is limited to 2 gig of ram which is one drag but beyond that very stable.

I'd go for it.

Jim Goodin
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On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Paul Richards <paulrichard_rocks@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi:

 

I have an opportunity to get a Macbook Pro 2.26Ghz version for a reasonable price / payment arrangement through my workplace. would that be an acceptable machine to use for audio needs? i.e. recording audio, possible looping, virtual synthesizer use?

 

I'm currently a PC user and my desktop is getting old (although it's pretty functional) but I need to add memory and don't necessarily want to keep spending money on a soon-to-be-obsolete machine (Dell 4600 desktop). Plus my disk dives are getting full. I had already replaced my power supply and graphics card - both of which died.

 

Thanks for any comments/advice.

 

Regards, Paul

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