Re: Macbook Pro 2.26GHz OK for Audio Recording?

[Jim Goodin <jimgoodinmusic@gmail.com>]

I have a 7200 drive but mine is 120 GB.  I do a lot of Audacity and Reaper/NinJam tracking (recording) and pulling edits as well as I do Final Cut work on it.  For that latter the drive speed is more critical/beneficial and I think is always not a bad thing.  Like memory or storage the more you can afford the better.

While on this note of MBP's have any of you had the display issue I've briefly described where it loses video in my case getting nothing but vertical banding across the bottom 1/3.  Initiialy this started as a flicker that I could squeeze the sides and it would settle down.  I had read online that the MBP displays were known to have some kind of separation issue between the display element and the physical backing.  I've also been told it's probably worht opening and reseating the invertor board connection which I'm actually about to do.

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Jeff Shirkey <jcshirke@verizon.net> wrote:

Two GB should do fine for audio recoding, if going moderately. You
would need more RAM if for example running heavy sampler plugins while
carrying out your audio recordings. 

On a somewhat related note, someone told me that I should probably replace my MBP's internal 5400 rpm drive with a 7200 rpm/500 GB drive because I have 3 or 4 large sample libraries on my machine. I'm sure I will need to stream some of those samples in Live 8, but I'm not going to be using huge, multi-layered tracks live. I would say my usage of samples and audio would be moderate. Do any other Mac users think I should take his advice and swap out my drive, or is my 5400/320 GB drive most likely fine for my needs?

Thanks,

Jeff

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