You get the very nice and well designed apple hardware, can run all your windows software natively under boot camp, and all of the mac stuff. However, I avoid firewire like the plague (too many hoops to jump through for it), so it may be irrelevant to your situation. Just out of curiosity, have you tried disabling Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery? It did wonders for my laptop.Dropped my dpc latency from under 1000, to around 300 with just that one tweak. Internal should be for OS only, in which case 5400 should be fine. As far as I know, one should preferably record to an external drive anyways (even on Mac), and it should be 7200rpm or faster, from my experience in PC. I just spent an entire week struggling with that on a film set. There's always the risk of dropouts, whether tracking 1 or 48 tracks. No matter what I try (and I have even disabled the DVD by now), I can not get my two Yamaha i88X units to behave 100% properly. Ive always been using desktop PCs up to now with Sonar until I decided to take up a MAC Book to help me in some recording and musical work I do outside home. My mobile rig (Lenovo SL500) is wonderful, except for the damn firewire port. The new Macbook Pro 2.44 Ghz as DAW Limitations Perhaps all of you people may not be experts for Mac, but I am not one myself. I'm in the same boat and was about to post a similar question!
I've just found out after commiting to buy it that it has a hard drive of 5400 RPM which may not be quite convenient for audio recording and music DAWS like Cubase or Logic Studio.Ĭan I get some advice from you people.Do i cancel the order? (A bit difficult at this point with downpayment already done!) Can this Macbook become a good DAW or not? Thanks in advance for the help!
I've always been using desktop PCs up to now with Sonar until I decided to take up a MAC Book to help me in some recording and musical work I do outside home.But I am now commited to buy one model that may not be convenient for the task.Could you help me evaluate this model? I am going to take the Macbook Pro 2.44Gh 13 inch model:Ģ.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 4GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2x2GB 250GB Serial ATA Drive 5400 rpm None None SuperDrive 8x (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW) Perhaps all of you people may not be experts for Mac, but I am not one myself. The new Macbook Pro 2.44 Ghz as DAW! Limitations