my laptop has

2.2ghz amd duel core

1gb ram

100gb HD

and cost me £1539 2 n a half years ago

and i run FL and a wad of VSTi's on it

the problems im having now are

not enough hd space
having to bounce more and more audio

so personally for music production , i would buy the one with the best CPU , memory and if possible the best soundcard

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I think its worth getting the mac even though you don't get the hard drive space (But you can upgrade on the apple web site for 70 quid.).

Not sure which one i'd go for tho. Probably the new one just for the looks.

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I've just bought a Dell Studio 17(2.5ghz core 2 duo, 320gb HD, 4gb RAM, Vista etc). Seems rock solid and a good buy

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was thinking of looking at those but for some reason theres a 3-4 week delivery delay

The guy at apple I was speaking to says the FSB of the 2.0 GHz processor on the new macbooks is 1066 MHz which means it is just as fast/faster than the 2.5 GHz 800MHz on the Dell?

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Go for the the Dell one, its really fast, the faster CPU the better.

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I'm pro PC, but when it comes to laptops for music production get the Macbook if you plan on using a FireWire interface.

Hah, well. I put it back together again.

I use a Macbook Pro 2.33ghz (late 2006 model), 3 gigs of ram,

and I love it fucking dearly.



BY THE WAY. If you want a NEW macbook, you're shit out of luck when it comes to firewire, and if you go for a NEW macbook pro, you're shit out of luck for Firewire 400.

I use MOTU audio interfaces, and they all use Firewire 400 as their standard interconnect.

Just so you know.

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what type of firewire does the presonus firebox use?

quote:

Originally posted by Stevemarble what type of firewire does the presonus firebox use?

6-pin though you can get a 4-pin converter like I have if you need it.

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quote:

Originally posted by Fledz 6-pin though you can get a 4-pin converter like I have if you need it.

I didn't know they had those. Can you get them most anywere?

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Well it's not really a converter, it's just a cable with a 4-pin on one end. The Firebox comes with it's own 6 to 6. Since my laptop has 4-pin, I got a 6 to 4 cable. Any electronics store will have them.

The only thing with that is you can't run it on phantom power, you have to plug the Firebox into the power socket but I prefer it that way.

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