Making the Digital move.. purchased the kontrol s4 to use live when im playing in club all over the country..
Big question is this.
Which MacBook Pro ? Few options im looking at here is.
MacBook Pro 2.8GHz Dual-core Intel i7 (october 2011 model) 13" - Good enough value at just over £1000, seems a quality machine with alot of power.
or
The new 13-inch: 2.4 GHz MacBook pro - £999
Seems like a no brainer! but then people said the new machines are faster. I need to have a machine that wont crash, and have plenty of power to take the work load i will place onto it. 3 decks plus samples and efx’s.
Is it second hand or a refurb with full warranty, either way it is the current model so i’d probably go with i7 over i5
Either will run Traktor2 perfectly (As does my 2009 C2D MBP BTW with Ableton loaded simultaneously) .. its not that heavy on processor and are both equally reliable.
If the i7 is S/H get Applecare (if not already included)
Definitely get the i7 then, the Apple refurbs come with the full warranty and have been checked and tested properly by in-house techs rather than just the usual QC the factory
i7.. Ive had it for almost a year now and love it. I got it from the refurb store, but it looked brand new. My buddy/roommate has the i5. Its good, but the difference is noticeable. The i7 loads everything faster and glitches way less.
i got an i5 a couple of months ago. from what i read there isn’t a massive difference between the recent i5’s and i7’s compared to before. i think they added some more cache to the i5 that it didn’t have before? on previous mbp’s there’s a much bigger gap in performance between the i5 and i7.
Keep an eye on the John Lewis website; OK the laptops are list price but they include a two year warranty on macbookss as standard and they have just finished a promotion that was three years warranty free of charge. No doubt it’ll be back again soon.
Especially when the next gen Macbooks are rumoured to be getting a product launch towards the end of this month…
They have been saying the new Macbook is landing since the last one - I’m sure it’ll be coming soon but the general vibe is it’ll not have a C.D drive as they are going down the Air route.
I need to be able to put C.Ds in as I still get given alot of them at events so I made the jump a few months ago; i7, 8GB ram, 750GB HDD, duel boot and the thing is an absolute beast - I can open at least 5 massive programmes and it just laughs at me like ‘is that it!?’
Yeah going to hold off, but ive read up on a few sights, hope they dont take away the cd drive and also havent read it mentioned that the 13" inch is getting a makeover. just 15"
