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Originally Posted by max cooper  I got the 1.6 MBP when it came out because I needed it for work. It has the full load of RAM.
My recording computer is an (almost) three year old dual 2 Gig G5.
I tried recording with the MBP using PTLE and it was disappointingly slow.
I thought I'd have to replace the G5 soon, but it's been very solid as far as track count and plugin capability. I upped the RAM to 6 Gigs and it helped a lot.
The MBP chokes on one Revolver, or one BFD. Also, I have two UAD cards and I was gonna have to get a Magma to run them with the MBP.
Even at 44.1 the MBP is slooow. Heck, it's even slow at non-recording stuff like photoshop. I know it's not a real-world test, but I can go down the applications folder in my G5 and open every single application and it does fine. They just start opening one after another until the dock icons are really tiny. If I do that with the MBP I get the beach ball immediately, and eventually it'll just crash.
On the upside, the MBP is hot enough that you can make grilled cheese sandwiches on the keyboard. |
Max, I have the same G5 as you ... its finally very stable (with Logic Pro 7.2.3, 3x UAD's in Magma 4, Duende, FW1884) ... Recently got a Macbook Core2, 2.33 Ghz, 3Gb Ram, 160Gb perp. HD. Use it with a RME FF800. Been using it all week for an intense location recording ... Man, Macbook Pro has muscle. It feels more powerful/stable than my G5.
