Buying a Mac, Buy now or wait for new Pro to drop.
So heres my dillema been having serious issues with my pc so i decided to go mac.
Been researching into macs and discovered that a new MBP Line will be dropping fairly shortly using Mountain Lion.
Do i buy the current late 2011 MBP model and lnow that Serato itch is going to work with lion or wait for the new ones to drop only to discover serato wont work on mountain lion.
Thoughts?
Jay Russ
Wait for the new line, prices on the actual ones will surely drop. After it wait 2 weeks and check the forums and apple support page to see if there are any reported issues. If there is any deal breaker and still want one of the new ones I don’t think there will be issues installing a fresh copy of Lion on it until the bugs get squashed and drivers updated.
I tried 2 of the dev betas and they seemed pretty stable, can’t test Serato tho since I don’t own a SL box.
Speculation is that the new one will be a total revamp of the MBP, thinner, removal of the optical drive, higher res screens, and my personal thought is they “might” have a SSD OS drive as well as a regular hard drive, either as standard or as a BTO.
I cant imagine Lion not installing on a new model anyhow if needed, worst case scenario when they release the new model - buy the old one from their refurb shop at a hella discount, its only a month to wait and see.
Depends how good a deal you get on the older one at that point.
You’d be stupid not to wait, new mbp will be nothing short of brilliant!
Just wait, new Macbook Pros are “supposed” to be unveiled in a few weeks at WWDC.
I don’t know about Itch as there’s a lot more hardware devices for it and therefore potential problems, but as a Scratch Live user, I’ve used the last 4 major versions of OSX (10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7), and never had a problem with them working when the new verions comes out (often despite Serato’s warnings that it’s not “compatible” yet).
With no optical (CD) drive and no ethernet port? I’ll pass..
wait
When was the last time you used either one?
My Optical drive has been dead for, well, I’m not sure how long. I noticed it in like november some time…only used it twice to install Logic and Maschine……both of which I would have preferred to download because CDs are so fucking slow. SO, I haven’t missed it. I’ve plugged in an ethernet cable exactly once when I was trying to see if a D-Control needed PT HD to function or if it’d work with the native version (since it doesn’t say on the website or in the manual).
I’m probably not going to upgrade until I need to or until they come out with an 11/12-inch MBP. But I’d wait for WWDC if I were in the market.
Software installation? Watching a movie from a DVD? Burning a CD? Listening to a CD?
It’s a setback if you always have to carry around an external optical drive with you. Why should you want to do that?
i was gunna say how would you install things? most things still rely on cds for installation.
Haven’t watched a movie off an optical disk in years (well…on a laptop…I try not to even on a TV), and even when I have physical installation media, I try to install off a download. It took less time to download and install PT 10 (~8 GB worth of installers) than it did to install maschine (~6 GB) off the DVDs.
DVDs are a worthless joke medium left over from distribution models that don’t work. They scratch, they get lost, and they’re fucking slow. The only thing DVD drives are good for is making copies of DVDs when a blockbuster goes out of business and you buy a pile of them for $1 each. And that’s only because it’s so cheap.
Good riddance.
^ Ha so true. The only cd’s/dvd’s I buy these days are ones from the bargain bins at stores.
i get you can download most installation software, but the thing im struggling with is dont you need a cd to install your broadband provider to start with?
For that one or two times every now and then you’ll be using the optical drive, just buy an external disc reader? It’s like what, $ 25/€ 20?
I hope they leave out the optical drive and replace it with another HDD/SSD. They can leave out the ethernet cable too, since a laptop is optimized for mobile use. Who doesn’t have WiFi nowaydays?
Personally I hope that they will use high resolution screens so that you can see ‘more’ on your screen. My MBP 13 has just the right size, but I wouldn’t mind to have some more things to look at on the screen.
Hunh? In like 14 years of broadband internet, never had to install software. I can’t even think of what you would install.
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For that one or two times every now and then you’ll be using the optical drive, just buy an external disc reader? It’s like what, $ 25/€ 20?
[/quote]Yeah. My optical drive on my MBP has been dead for a while, and I’m not willing to part with my laptop for 3 days to get it to the depot and back, so I’m just not fixing it……just like the last time that happened. Seriously, the only thing I’ve used the external for is ripping DVDs that I got on closeout from blockbuster.
Vinyl is the only physical media I don’t hate, and that’s just because it’s fun. No one has fun with DVDs.
Agreed. An 11" 1920x1080 screen would actually be pretty. It looks like crap on my 21", but on 11" that’d be nice.
Also, I’m pretty sure I never want a laptop bigger than 11" again. Maybe they’ll finally bring out an 11" MBP to replace the 12" ones that they discontinued with the PowerPC G4s. Those were always the best sized computers for me. And all the Air really needs to be useful is a FW800 port and a real processor (i’d be perfectly happy with a quad core i5).
I honestley agree! I rock an i5 in my desktop (i5 760 - summer 2010 version I believe) and it’ll do every major task I ask from it. And it’ll do what I want in the future. All those new processors, I couldn’t care less about. Too bad the Airs don’t have FireWire, but unless I use an audio interface, I don’t think they’ll be used much (by me). I’m glad I’d still have a FireWire-port on my MBP, though.
11" 1920*1080, it must be so sharp and there’s more room for stuff in Ableton and even Traktor. It would be the ultimate mobile laptop.
That display doesn’t exist yet, AFAIK, but it’d be nice. The current 11" displays are 1366x768 and still look okay. My 13" MBP is 1280x800 and is right at the cutoff of what I consider decent, which sucks because the rest of the world thinks its good.
Indeed, not to mention the resolution of the MacBook Air, which is 1440*900 I believe for the 13 inch.
Yeah. It’s just prettier.
I could almost switch to the 11" air, but the processors won’t support what I need to do yet, hence hoping for an 11" quad i5 pro. I’d also need a thunderbolt FireWire card with the right chipset, which might be harder.
Maximum of 1,7GHz Dual Core?! This is pretty lame!
