Buying Mac Portable To Record/burn Cds, Help finding cheepest/fastest solution Options

[derhamm]

I need a laptop to record band rehearsals with my stereo mic and burn rehearsal cds for band members afterwords quickly. I noticed 24x burners on ebay for $150 that fit in Lombard or Pismo Powerbook G3s so it seems like I could buy them all for around $500. Does anyone know if this is my best solution and/or if any other lowend/earlier mac portables (ie. Wallstreet) can support internal cd burners?

Ce message a été modifié par derhamm - mer. 24 sept. 2003, 16:08.

[boze]

hi derhamm-

yeah, i'm sorry if my post was a bit confusing. let me try again:

yes, the older G3 pbooks have audio in jacks. but they aren't cheap enough and have small hd's and no firewire or airport.

ibooks aren't perfect either because the cheap ones don't even have burners, just cd-rom drives (which i think is wildly out of pace with the pc world and kind of embarrassing).

but since you're shopping for the pismo, you are one of the only person to whom someone can say the following:
"but the ibooks are faster, bigger and almost as affordable"

in most normal situations i think the ibooks are laughably underpowered and overpriced, but while the combo drive ibooks are usually a bit too expensive these barebones 700mhz ibooks like the refurb or the ones listed each week at dealmac.com are at least good enough to run osx, have an okay-sized hd, and have firewire built in. so you'd need to get a usb soundcard (you can do up to four tracks of audio with a decent usb1.1 card, so a stereo mix of a rehearsal won't be a problem) and you'd need to get a fast 52x fw burner (can be had for $100) and you'd be ready.

alternately, you can see how fast a pismo you can find and maybe look into putting a firewire expansion card in the nubus (pcmcia) slot for the burner. you certainly won't find a G3 pbook with a burner any where near that speed since they didn't exist then.

if your budget allows then you could consider the refurb 12" pbooks they had at the apple store's deals section. they were only $1199 and i thought that was the best value for price that i'd seen in a mac laptop in years.