Macbook air.
Juan Pablo
Monkey Pusher
off the MacBook Air's have no firewire inpus as you are probably
aware, so you will be limited to a USB interface, or the built in one.
Secondly I believe with 4GB or SO of ram the AIR should be fast
enough for basic tracking and or editing/mixing or etc. However just
looking at the specs on paper I don't know how much you would be able
to push it in tersm of high track counts and a ton of plug ins on each
track. Personally i myself currently run PT on an older MacBook Pro
with a2.6GHZ core II Duo and 4GB of DDR2 667 Mhz Ramm with no issues.
That being said I haven't attempted a 32 Track Project with tons of
plug ins loaded yet. Woulsn't it be nice though if we could a get a
quad core processor in something that small and portable for those of
us that don't rely on screen real estate?
Scott Chesworth
performance of the Air itself. Can't say I've ever tried running an
interface and an external drive off one USB socket before, but I'd be
surprised if the results were productive at higher track counts or for
heavy plugin use.
Scott
Juan Pablo
I'll use basically to editing recordings. My intention is not conect
externalhardware on it. Pt in conjunction with plugins like izotope RX and
others softwares like reappper.
A MBA is really less expensive than a mbp or imac here in Brazil.
Best,
Juan.
Frank Carmickle
On Aug 4, 2011, at 3:16 PM, Monkey Pusher wrote:
> That depends on waht you plan on doing with the install of PT. First
> off the MacBook Air's have no firewire inpus as you are probably
That's true that they don't have firewire but they have thunderbolt and you can buy a thunderbolt to firewire adapter. In fact you can buy a pci express expansion chasis for thunderbolt. Expand to two cards I believe.
> aware, so you will be limited to a USB interface, or the built in one.
> Secondly I believe with 4GB or SO of ram the AIR should be fast
> enough for basic tracking and or editing/mixing or etc. However just
> looking at the specs on paper I don't know how much you would be able
> to push it in tersm of high track counts and a ton of plug ins on each
> track. Personally i myself currently run PT on an older MacBook Pro
> with a2.6GHZ core II Duo and 4GB of DDR2 667 Mhz Ramm with no issues.
Yeah. It's very unfortunate that they don't offer more than 4 gb on the air. The i5 processor at 1.7 ghz is under powered a bit also. I'm sure you could track and mix a bunch of tracks as long as you don't run to many plugins. You do get a ssd standard which rocks rocks rocks!
--FC