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ok, i'm not an expert - but i'd get either the largest, fastest HD available in stock (or else get the cheapest and plan on upgrading 3rd party) and as much memory - 2gigs is ok, but 4 would be much nicer. get the fastest cpu that you can. spend all you have. deals? on apples? i think their dealer agreements all prohibit discounting. best you could do would be to find a reseller with free shipping. but maybe i'm wrong. i'd go for the applecare too. laptops are somewhat vulnerable. also - i don't know if this is true for just *any* apple user, but i've gotten top-notch tech sppt from apple via my applecare contract. most other companies, i laugh at tech sppt as a total waste of time and exercise in frustration. sorry i couldn't be more help. i'm sure there are others here much more knowledgeable. On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:40 AM, L.A. Angulo <labaloops@yahoo.com> wrote: > Thanx Warren,i am doing research because i have > finally decided to buy a macbook pro and give lapos a > try and i am not sure if i should buy it with > L.express or pro,also can you give me a list of > essentials before i order it to have a killer stable > machine for live and studio purposes?i just want to > make sure i dont miss anything! > p.s. if you would also be so kind to recomend a place > that has good deals on macs in the states that would > be great(are you form california?) my parents will be > most likely bringing it from there. > cheers > Luis > > > > --- Warren Sirota <wsirota@wsdesigns.com> wrote: > >> I can't really do a direct comparison, because I >> haven't used Sonar in >> a couple of years. One of the reasons I went for >> Logic is that I >> wanted a fairly *complete* toolkit so that I don't >> have to always hunt >> for and evaluate different drum kits, synthesizers, >> fx, etc. The >> version of Sonar that I got had nothing in the way >> of instruments and >> very little in the way of fx. have no idea what >> they're offering now. >> Plus, I don't remember whether Sonar supported my >> 24-bit interface or >> not, but i would have been afraid to up the cpu load >> to that on that >> computer. >> >> So that's a lot of words to tell you that i just >> don't know. What I >> can tell you is that Logic (even Express) comes with >> a lot of >> good-sounding effects chains for guitar and synth >> patches complete >> with tempo-synced delays and other stuff that not >> only give you plenty >> of cool sounds to explore, but also are classified >> in a really >> intelligent manner >> (for the record, I believe that this area of >> "snippet/effect >> classification" is a very underrated and >> ill-understood area, which >> will inevitably become increasingly important as the >> creation of music >> continues it's move towards editing/arrangement and >> away from straight >> tracking. Apple really *gets it*, as anyone who has >> hunted for loops >> with the garageband interface knows, and that >> interface was copped >> from Logic, which applies it to fx and instruments >> as well as loops. >> Everything is "tagged" so you can do >> multidimensional searches. This >> is in contrast to Sonar, Live or any other program >> I've seen, in which >> you are left without help to organize your resources >> other than trying >> to stick things in folders that have to constantly >> be reorganized or >> rethought-out and even documented in external text >> files. ugly, >> horrible, and bound to get worse. but i'm an IT guy, >> so things like >> this tend to offend me more than most). >> >> BTW - Now I've received Logic Studio but I can't >> install it till i get >> a new hard drive for my laptop! (well, I was >> constrained by that >> anyway, since i run a 30 gig boot camp partition >> that i could otw use >> for music, and I can get a faster drive than the >> built-in one). Logic >> Studio == 41GB install! Wow. I guess there must be a >> LOT of samples in >> that package. >> >> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 8:05 PM, L.A. Angulo >> <labaloops@yahoo.com> wrote: >> > Hey Warren, >> > what about Logic soundwise compared to Sonar,is it >> > true that the sound quality is better? >> > >> > >> > >> >> > > > www.myspace.com/luisangulocom > > > > >