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Old 03-13-2009, 12:01 PM
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Default PT LE 8 on Unibody MacBook for a week...

Just a quick question. I'm upgrading my MacBook to a MacBook Pro in the next couple of weeks but need to start learning Pro Tools LE 8 before it arrives (as I'm a Logic Pro user switching to over). I know I shouldn't be using a Mac without an external FireWire hard drive (being naughty, using the system drive), but will it be okay for a week or two while my MacBook Pro gets here?

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Old 03-13-2009, 12:05 PM
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Default Re: PT LE 8 on Unibody MacBook for a week...

Why don't you install PT and just try it? It might work if you work only with a few tracks.
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Old 03-13-2009, 01:21 PM
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Default Re: PT LE 8 on Unibody MacBook for a week...

should be fine if you aren't recording audio - ie, just playing around with midi or mixing existing audio tracks. I wouldn't try to record audio because you'll probably end up with pops and other glitches.
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Old 03-13-2009, 03:19 PM
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Default Re: PT LE 8 on Unibody MacBook for a week...

I've done quite a bit of field recording on a 3 year old macbook pro with an MBox into the internal drive. It's the first gen Intel machine. works great as long as there aren't too many tracks/plugs.

Curious about your performance on the unibody. I'm attracted to it cause it's a sexy machine. Please let us know how it goes.
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Old 03-13-2009, 03:44 PM
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Default Re: PT LE 8 on Unibody MacBook for a week...

Holly73 - Can't try it yet as my MBox 2 hasn't arrived yet!

Ken Burk - Thanks for the advice, most welcomed.

plutone - Will post up the results on here sometime tomorrow when my Mbox 2 arrives. Can't wait to get my hands on the Unibody MacBook Pro. I've had a play with it and it's amazing! Very curious to hear Vacuum, as I've tried to get to hear it with no luck at all!
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Old 03-14-2009, 09:24 AM
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Curious about your performance on the unibody. I'm attracted to it cause it's a sexy machine. Please let us know how it goes.
Loaded up Pro Tools LE 8 on the Unibody MacBook today and was very surprised at how well it worked on an "unsupported" machine. Playing around with the less than demanding demo song ("Filtered Dream, which was added when M-Powered first came out), the CPU (RTAS) was around 6%, CPU (Elastic) was 1% and DISK was around 7% with a peak of 16% and that was it!

This is on the 2.0GHz Unibody MacBook, not the 2.4GHz model, so with only a 5400 rpm internal drive, it did pretty well.
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