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mackbook or pro
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04/15/08 + ssb0

i'm sorry if this has been asked for a thousand times but i can't find a proper answer.
i'm going to buy a new lappie and switch to apple. but its a big dilemma wich one to choose.
i have the money to buy a pro but i'm a really poor guy so that money will quite be all the money i have, wich i don't care about too much for this purpose if it's nescesary offcourse(just informing you that's a big thing for me financially so i can't make mistakes).
my actuall question is offcourse if i should buy a pro(can't afford expansions on the thing, i have like 1800 euro's) or if the mackbook is good enough for me. i want to be prepared for suprises the next 3-5 years and i pretty much will boost the machine to the max(i like to fit 10 songs in one set for gigs, remote them with 3 midicontrollers and process or record audio all at once and stuff like that).
first i was planning on buying a pro but then i heard that if you used it for music(production, preforming or whatever) it wouldn't matter.
so i wan't to ask you guys for an opinion/advice. it would come handy to save some money, but if it's nescecary i would gladly spend all of it on a good new system.

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05/08/08 + ssb0

could you try it with 64 channels for me? just to be sure.
(if you have a MBP 2,4ghz,2gig,5400rpm or less)

edited: May 08 2008 + nagrom

i don't want an external hdd because of the traveling involved. i travel alot between practice room and home so i want to kee╬ it compact.

You can get a 160gig external hard drive that's smaller than a mouse now. Things are changing.
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05/08/08 + Tripnik

if you're thinking about getting into video get the pro. Screen size is not as much a consideration as graphics processor. The pro's are equipped to SCREAM through opengl stuff (says the jitter list). if you know for certain that you'll only be working in audio, the regular macbook should be fine.

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edited: May 10 2008 + ssb0

i've ordered a Macbook PRO(!) btw.thanks for advise.

05/10/08 + cloudburst

awesome. which one did you get? did you go for the 7200 drive?

enjoy. expense aside, they are fantastic super-nice fun awesome machines.

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05/11/08 + ssb0

i bought the 5400 rpm(2.4 ghz, 2 gig ram). in my local musicstore they told me i won't reach its limits until 64 tracks of audio so why bother.

05/11/08 + Tripnik

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just sayin' is all ;)

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05/11/08 + elronhubbard

just out of curiosity how do you tell if your macbook is a santa rosa chipset version?

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