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laptop advice

  • 31-08-2011 9:42am
    #1
    madma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,773 ✭✭✭


    hi folks

    I'm going to decide soon on a laptop as my old one is old an more or less broken since a week ago

    as well normal things i was to get something that's good for music production (doesn't have to be fancy I'll be using ableton live to begin)

    I hear the macs are the way to go but my budget is 500

    I found this on the refurb site and I might be able to stretch to 700

    would this be as good as the other macs or any info on this appreciated

    http://store.apple.com/ie/product/FC505B/A?mco=MjA2NTk3NzA

    thanks!


Comments

  • #2
    Clanket
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,087 ✭✭✭Clanket


    64gb memory is pretty poor. If you're using it for other stuff (i.e. Itunes, Photos etc) this will fill up pretty quickly. Although you could get an external hard drive if needed.

    I'm no pro, and it's always a matter of preference, but I would not buy that laptop for music production. The small screen, lack of a firewire port and the small memory would be the main reasons.


  • #3
    Anima
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,945 ✭✭✭Anima


    "Budget" and "Apple" does not go together.

    Get a proper laptop, maybe second hand. My Dell laptop isn't amazing but can run most music applications just fine, just have to take it easy on plugin instances.

    I'd say any kind of multi-cored CPU, at least 3 gigs of ram and 200+ gigs of storage should be fine. You don't need a decent graphics card either.


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