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Originally Posted by bzone
As you are starting to build out a system it’s important to do your research and qualify what is the most functional. If you think of your MBP as the brain of your set up, hosting your software, meaning Protools, plug-in’s and your VI’s. You will find it better to record your sessions to an external drive, a fast portable SSD will do. Research what is out there. You will then come to a point when using VI’s that the samples are so large, you will need another external SSD to store them. Then you will get to the point of an audio interface with AD to DA on it and the option for an external keyboard to trigger your VI’s.
It is nice to hope for a portable solution and a MBP to solve all your production issues, but at this point the memory and software developers are not there yet. Running a fully loaded 7.1 with HDX3 , SSD’s and large RAM setups, with large sessions will eliminate any laptop at this point in time.
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An external session drive is not a requirement on modern MBP and using one may result in worse performance. This has been true for years. I don’t know why you have to weigh in with old nonsense on a thread where good advice has already been offered. There is no faster drive available on a MBP than the internal fast PCIe/NVMe SSD. And that single super fast drive is able to easily handle sessions and samples for almost all uses especially somebody getting started. The practical driving issue is simply space on the internal drive.
And a lot of folks can run Pro Tools on a MBP with little external crap, not everybody needs a Mac Pro/HDX system.