mrtcat Posted January 6, 2014 Posted January 6, 2014 Current laptop is coming to the end of its life and so I'm looking for recommendations for a replacement. Budget is about £800 but I need to be able to hook it up to a Mackie Onyx 1640i mixer to allow live recording on 16 channels. Previously I've run ableton but I no longer DJ so will probably want to run one of the logic incarnations. The mixer really needs firewire and I need enough power and memory to handle a two hour set using 16 channels. Am I high or is this possible? Recommendations please :-) Quote
RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE Posted January 6, 2014 Posted January 6, 2014 MacBook Air . Or Mac mini ? (Not a laptop, but cool ) Quote
mrtcat Posted January 6, 2014 Author Posted January 6, 2014 Mac mini looks like really good value. Is 4gb memory enough? i5 or i7? Quote
ambient Posted January 6, 2014 Posted January 6, 2014 (edited) MacBook pro, slightly over your budget, unless you know someone's who's a student, I got 15% off mine last year. You get garageband with it, which is really great software. Mine's only 4gb and I run Logic X on it, so yes 4gb is fine. Edited January 6, 2014 by ambient Quote
BigRedX Posted January 7, 2014 Posted January 7, 2014 Remember that a lot of the new Macs have replaced FireWire with Thunderbolt. You might need to look at a second hand one. What is you current laptop? Quote
mrtcat Posted January 7, 2014 Author Posted January 7, 2014 I'm currently using a Toshiba laptop which has an express card slot. I use a decent firewire adaptor that supports music streaming so it works well. Biggest issue is currently finding either a pc laptop with the express card slot or anything with a firewire port. If I went for a mac mini it would have the firewire but I'd need to build a clever flight case to make it usable at a gig. Quote
BigRedX Posted January 7, 2014 Posted January 7, 2014 If you want to run Logic in anything approaching a current version you'll need a Mac. Quote
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