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Re: OT: new Macbook wíthOUT Firewire :(



Do they have an express card?
On Oct 15, 2008, at 5:15 AM, Per Boysen wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Buzap Buzap <buzap@gmx.net> wrote:
>> Hi folks
>>
>> now, this is really off topic, but I wanted to let off some steam:
>> For a laptop setup, I was waiting for the new MacBook to come out.  
>> Now, it is there and: it has NO FIREWIRE INTERFACE anymore!!!
>>
>> Obviously, for looping this really sucks. Now, what to do?
>
>
> Buy an older model:
> http://www.apple.com/macbook/white/specs.html
>
> The new MacBooks (2.0 or 2.4 GHz) feature a 1066 MHz frontside bus in
> contrast to the MacBook White's (2.1 Ghz) 800 MHz fontside bus. Both
> Intel Core 2 Duo processors with 3MB on-chip shared L2 cache running
> 1:1 with processor speed. I use the old 2.2 GHz MacBook White and find
> it fully sufficient. I would think different though if I was up to
> making multi track recordings, as when recording twenty mic inputs at
> one go. But for everything else FW 400 is as good as FW 800.
>
>
>> I would be willing to pay extra $$ for a 12"/13" MacBookPro if it  
>> had firewire, but there is none.
>
> Same solution available here: get the older model. Personally I would
> not buy anything new that is marketed by "New design. New features.
> New technologies. All engineered to standards that don't even exist
> yet." (quoting Apple)
>
>
>> I was really getting comfortable on the Mac OSX platform with  
>> Logic and now (finally :-)
>> with Moebius on Mac.
>
> I suggest you get a Windows XP license and use Apple's BootCamp to run
> it on the Mac!
>
> I've just been around doing a bunch of gigs with Mobius VST/Windows
> (on the MacBook) and I think a small miracle would be needed to get
> the same performance power into the Mac version. My experience so far
> is that for live processing of a live audio input Windows works better
> (meaning zero tolerance for drop-outs or any kind of audio artifacts).
> Then I have been a pro user of Mac since the early nineties and I do
> prefer Mac OS X for everything else  ;-)
>
> -- 
> Greetings from Sweden
>
> Per Boysen
> www.boysen.se (Swedish)
> www.looproom.com (international)
> www.myspace.com/perboysen
> www.stockholm-athens.com
>