Perhaps my last post was confusing. I need to know if anyone can tell me what kind of performance to expect from running Logic express on an iBook. If anyone can tell me possible problems or known limitations. I don't intend to record more than 12 tracks per song (one at a time) and even that total will be rare.

Please help. I'm getting a mac for music come hell or high water, but I want to make an informed decision. All I get from store managers is a push to buy a PowerMac. And I would love to someday, but for now I can't bloody afford it. HELP!

Thank you for your time.

yes u can. an ibook should be enough for that.

keep in mind, however, that ibooks do have dedicated video RAM, instead opting to share system memory. what this will do is bog down ur system when scrolling in place, etc.

i've recently moved to a powerbook from being a PC-er for years, there is a noticible speed difference when moving to a laptop, but the mac interface cant be beat!

when recording audio, ur main concerns are with disk speed and i/o. when editing tracks and using plugins, ur concerns have more to do with processing power and system bandwidth (fsb, etc).

unless u need the portability of a laptop, i would say an imac is better - the g5 is way more powerful and the desktop hard drives spin at a faster rate (7200 rpm vs 5400 rpm). but i LOVE the portability of the powerbook.

and make sure you get the logic 7.1 upgrade. it makes the performance of 7.01 feel like a beta to me.

--bk

Thanks for the advice. I am very interested in portability as my lifestyle is a bit get-up-n-go at times. I am also most interested in the laptop mactels we should see in a few years. It's this that makes me think it would be better to get an iBook for now, rather than drop the big money on the great but soon to be antiquated higher end stuff. Yes? Any thoughts?

Could you elaborate a little on these problems? Will they cause functional problems for play back or cause a loss of recorded material in anyway, by which I mean if I were to record an instrument and a vocal track at once say, would the computer drop parts of the signal at all? Also what make of mobile pre do you recommend?

This post has been edited by OneDerBoy: Wed 29 Jun 2005, 21:58

You shouldn't see problems, bigyello was only referring to the display, you may find that scrolling the screen during heavy usage might be slow.You won't see dropped recordings or glitches, fit plenty of RAM.

The 1 gig added to the native 256megs is really expensive. 768 megs is a little more doable for me. Does anyone know of a good RAM reseller with better prices than apple? If so, I might be able to load it up. Otherwise, I'll be getting the 768 from apple.