New Macbook With Intel Dual Core Options

[edvin]

Hi all,
this is my first post to these forums, so please be gentle
I once was a keyboardist, have strayed into ITM (irish traditionalmusic) for some time,
but started wondering about trying out a Mac (my PC is old and very noisy!), and eventually play around with some music software etc.

So, I notice the new MacBooks, how about those? Does anybody already have any experience with them for music? Software I am considering would be Reason + Cubase, Ableton Live etc... I.e. some soft synth + live recordings. Would it be able to handle that?

And if I should upgrade the RAM to 1GB, with a laptop this small is this something a user can easily handle him(herself?

Thanks and all the best;
Eivind

[lepetitmartien]

As a side note, we learned today (thanks to Macbidouille/hardmac) that changing the hard drive in the macbook doesn't void the warranty.Save if you break something while accessing the place (very few parts around anyway)

[edvin]

As a side note, we learned today (thanks to Macbidouille/hardmac) that changing the hard drive in the macbook doesn't void the warranty.Save if you break something while accessing the place (very few parts around anyway)

I see, well that has to be good news.
But, it comes with an 80GB HD and I thought that was the max?
BTW, I got a nice deal on a MacBook (black) w/2GB RAM and think I'll go for that :-) Woo!

Edvin

[Justin Thyme]

I see, well that has to be good news.
But, it comes with an 80GB HD and I thought that was the max?
BTW, I got a nice deal on a MacBook (black) w/2GB RAM and think I'll go for that :-) Woo!

No, some systems come with up to 120GB HD's.

I also have one of the MacBooks, and have been quite happy so far. Reason is a UB and runs well. As for Cubase, there so far isn't any word on UB progress other than "we're working on it".

I have the Digidesign version of Live, and it seems to run alright, but I hear the app is overall more of a resource hog than something like Cubase due to it's warping capability.

Garageband actually seems a bit sluggish. From what I've read, Logic Express/Pro seems more responsive.

I'm still looking for the right audio app to match with Reason. I'm familiar with Cubase, but the silence coming from Steinberg is not encouraging. I could upgrade my MBox to use Pro Tools LE 7, but I wasn't thrilled with 6.7 (although I hear that 7.0 is better at MIDI and dealing with loops).