Prepare for nerdgasm: New Macbook Pro's with Retina Display and thin design

**Lilja** · 06-25-2012, 11:45 AM

Well I have placed an order on it since my 13" i7 MBP got stolen, question is though if 256 GB will be enough to hold a decent ammount of tracks (will work with photos and graphic designs through an external HDD)?

**Fraktionz** · 06-25-2012, 12:20 PM

Originally Posted by Lilja

Well I have placed an order on it since my 13" i7 MBP got stolen, question is though if 256 GB will be enough to hold a decent ammount of tracks (will work with photos and graphic designs through an external HDD)?

If you're dedicating most of the 256 gb to you music then yes it willl hold more 320kbps songs then you'll ever play. With current audio formats I'm thinking 12 gb is the most amount of a collection I could have where songs would have a shot of being played by me. Even a karaoke or wedding dj would have enough space for their audio.

**Lilja** · 06-26-2012, 02:56 PM

I talked with NI's support and according to them, Traktor will scale with the retina display.

**deevey** · 06-26-2012, 03:39 PM

I got both a momentous xt ant the stock hdd in my current 17" MacBook pro in raid 0. It's working just fine.

Software raid with different controllers and different drives.

Am I the only one that terrifies?

Mostapha is dead on ...

Raid 0 .... risky at best unless you are backing up the entire unit with carbon copy or super duper so you can jam your USB cable in and still play if something goes pear shaped.

Cost of 256 SSD is only around 200 bucks these days for a crucial drive which is plenty for most stuff and would be a hellofalot faster than Raid0 on mismatched drives so long as your OS/swap is running on the SSD.

Someone else on here recently had a raid0 setup that he was so proud of ... until he lost a drive.

I talked with NI's support and according to them, Traktor will scale with the retina display.

Apparently the OS stays at 1440 x 900 during normal operations until you enable retina (or its enabled automatically e.g. final cut) or else regular stuff is going to look like tiny and crap.

So basically you will be pixel doubling for most applications (for now) - at least my understanding of it

**Louie_V** · 06-27-2012, 12:06 PM

Originally Posted by deevey

Someone else on here recently had a raid0 setup that he was so proud of ... until he lost a drive.

Yep, that was me, and i was very proud of it and considering doing it again. However, i will be backing up a lot more regularly now.

The reason for it failing in the first place was 100% my fault, and trust me while rebuilding my library from scratch (last back up was 2 yrs ago when i was still playing electro, now im mostly doing house/deep house/tech house/minimal so all the tracks i was currently using were lost), but while rebuilding that library isnt fun, im somewhat glad im doing it, because there was a point in time where i was just adding tracks to my library without listening to them first, now im listening to every track before adding it, and sorting them much better.

**loverocket** · 06-27-2012, 12:14 PM

i think i'll get a mac mini with a 20 inch monitor and nice bag for $1000. Show up at a gig in style.

**JesC** · 06-27-2012, 03:19 PM

Originally Posted by loverocket

i think i'll get a mac mini with a 20 inch monitor and nice bag for $1000. Show up at a gig in style.

macmini with ipad 3 via airplay...now thats super compact!

**Dustin V** · 06-27-2012, 04:40 PM

Even though the new MBP looks, and sounds great which it is, I think I'll wait it out a bit until the rest of the market catches up with Apple. I'm sure after a few weeks NI, and Serato will update their programs systems to fully take advantage of the new MBP.

I'm still quite happy with my early 2011 MBP, it works just fine, and still does everything I want it too. The only reasons I can think of now to want to get the new MBP is cos I'm just a gear slut and have R.G.A.S.