Re: which macbook?

[Rainer Straschill <moinsound@googlemail.com>]

Generally, live recording is very gentle in demands on computer 
performance by today's standards. Even standard consumer 5400rpm 
harddiscs and mediocre architectures won't keep you from recording a lot 
of tracks at high bit depth/sample rate.
Generally, you can set your interface latency as high as you want, as 
audio apps will compensate for that (meaning: if you're recording a new 
track as overdubs to existing ones, and have a latency of, say, 30ms 
(one way), then after logic plays back the audio until it leaves the 
interface is 30ms (and that is the timing reference to which you're 
gonna play), and your played audio arrives another 30ms later through 
the interface, then the app will move the newly recorded audio 60ms 
forward in the track).

Also, Mobius (note: don't know about the Mac version, it's Windows I'm 
talking 'bout) is not that hard on CPU/system load, either (although it 
seems to me that that has increased somewhat in some of the version 
changes in the last four years). So basically, you should go with the 
cheaper one from both those points of view.

Now, the smaller has IEEE1394, the bigger one doesn't, but does have 
ExpressCard - that may also be a decision aid, based on the audio 
interface you're using.

Simeon Harris schrieb:
> macbook owners - which one of these two macbooks is the better deal?
>
> i plan to use it for live recording (using logic) and hosting mobius 
> in mainstage for live looping. i don't need a massive hard drive - any 
> recordings done will be transferred to my desktop for mixing etc


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