There are new macbooks out now. Everything is fine but... macbooks don't have firewire port i thought to buy this and keep some money, but dont' believe in USB audio interfaces...sad.

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The 13 inch doesn't have firewire, but the 15 inch one has a FW800 port.

yea i know, pros are way too expensive, but its the way to go.

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I was trying to explain to my friend today that logic can only run on a mac. But he brought up a pretty good point, since the mac runs on an intel processor shouldn't there be way to have logic 8 on a pc?

I just thought it was somewhat interesting, not sure of what would be entailed or why logic is mac only as im a PC user.
Maybe a mac user can clear this up?

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Apple, ingeniously, bought Emagic - the creators of Logic. Therefore Logic has been mac only since 5.5 or so.

You can run logic on pc, if you install a patched version of mac os - on a compatible pc.
I installed it on my dell 9400 laptop, and due to som issues with dell's bios on these specific laptops,
I could only run mac os with only one of the cpu cores enabled.
Even so, it worked quite well. But since I couldn't get my wifi working,
and the fact that I could only run one of the cores made it unattractive for me.
If you have a pc with all compatible parts, it should run osx about as good as a mac. (if you get all the necessary drivers)
Logic worked well, besides all the bugs it initially had with it's 8.0.0 release.
I did this just to see if Logic was something I would consider spending my money on, and soon after I ordered a mac mini.
The mini has enough power for me, since I'm not used to much cpu power, I know the workarounds.
Soon I'm selling the mini, in favor of the new mac pro that's (hopefully) around the corner.

I tried the same thing, only couldn't get OSX to boot on my system. So you are making the switch over? You liked it that much? Compared to what may I ask? What were you using before? (as a sequencer I mean)

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I couldn't care less about Apple's new lineup.
Get those refurbished previous generation MBPs while you can.

Is it just me or is the only half-decent software for a mac only made by apple? Where are the other big software companies?

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Originally posted by aquila Is it just me or is the only half-decent software for a mac only made by apple? Where are the other big software companies?

Making stuff for the 95% of other people who don't use Macs...

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Originally posted by Stef I was trying to explain to my friend today that logic can only run on a mac. But he brought up a pretty good point, since the mac runs on an intel processor shouldn't there be way to have logic 8 on a pc? I just thought it was somewhat interesting, not sure of what would be entailed or why logic is mac only as im a PC user. Maybe a mac user can clear this up?

Install OSX on your PC. That is what I did before I bought a macbook.

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i thought i saw a new macbook pro too? in black?
new macbook seems to have a nice graphic card too, will it run smoother?

btw it has optical output sound, thats good

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