UPDATE;so i got a macbook and its not really shite

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Hardtoe
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Post by Hardtoe » Fri Aug 04, 2006 1:33 am

macbook here - ultralite - 2 gigs ram - no problems whatsoever (I don't even woory about how many plug-ins I use - has not been a issue yet - hot damn!!!)
Can you hear it?

lerky
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Post by lerky » Fri Aug 04, 2006 5:57 am

interesting,
ram is out for delivery today, 1ghz card which will take me up to 1.25 when I take out one 256 card
hopefully it sorts itself out

lerky
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Post by lerky » Fri Aug 04, 2006 5:58 am

eyeknow wrote:That has to be it.......although that seems like a pretty low amount of stuff to be having real issues.

fw 410...............HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Now here's a stupid question.....you do have the UB drivers from motu (1.41 I beilieve.....) Of course you do.....what a stupid question :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Emissary
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Post by Emissary » Fri Aug 04, 2006 8:17 am

mac's dont work very well with 512mb???? what?? , i have 512 in my 5 year old pc and live runs great on it, are the new macs really that rubbish???

lerky
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Post by lerky » Fri Aug 04, 2006 10:19 am

yes mate, i had 512 i my pc laptop for a while, and it was ok until i got up to around 10 audio and 10 midi tracks with loads of effects.

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Post by eyeknow » Sat Aug 05, 2006 9:14 pm

lerky wrote:interesting,
ram is out for delivery today, 1ghz card which will take me up to 1.25 when I take out one 256 card
hopefully it sorts itself out
??

I thought it was single 512 stick..........that's what I had been hearing.......

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Post by eyeknow » Sat Aug 05, 2006 9:15 pm

Emissary wrote:mac's dont work very well with 512mb???? what?? , i have 512 in my 5 year old pc and live runs great on it, are the new macs really that rubbish???
mac has always been "ram" hogs............

lerky
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Post by lerky » Sat Aug 05, 2006 9:51 pm

no, 2 x 256

got 2gig ram now and everything is fine

cost me £150 compared with £350 from the apple store

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Post by AdamJay » Sat Aug 05, 2006 9:59 pm

i had problems with drop outs on my old 12" G4 1.5ghz Powerbook with only 512MB ram.

when i bumped it to 1.25GB ram (which was the max), problems were gone.

I'll never buy a computer with less than 2GB of ram now. Simply because i've stopped having problems since making that decision.

lerky
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Post by lerky » Sat Aug 05, 2006 10:10 pm

ironic that my pc shits itself 2 days after I get the macbook!

luckily i transferred most of my audio files over already,

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Post by anti-banausic » Sat Aug 05, 2006 10:20 pm

Emissary wrote:mac's dont work very well with 512mb???? what?? , i have 512 in my 5 year old pc and live runs great on it, are the new macs really that rubbish???
Depends on what OS you are using as well, doesn't it?

I mean, if you are running 2000 vs. XP, I believe that XP takes a little more RAM. I believe that OSX takes more RAM as well, especially if you are using widgets and dashboard. It's not rally the computers fault, more the OS using more RAM because it is trying to have more functionality for basic users who like widgets and don't need to run a stripped down system for audio.

So, I wouldn't be hating.

Cheers,
AB
Macbook c2d 2.0, 2G RAM, 160G HD 5400 RPM, OSX(10.5.5), XP Home, LIVE6, BCR 2000, UC33e, Yamaha P-200, Logic Studio, KRK V6 II

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Re: so i got a macbook and its shite

Post by kennerb » Sat Aug 05, 2006 10:32 pm

frisbeedisk wrote:
lerky wrote: having a bit of a problem with glitchy audio
is that sound not kinda in at the moment 8O
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3ghz Pentium 4 (Prescott), XP Sp2, 1gig Ram, Dual Monitor with Matrox Millenium, MOTU Traveler, Event EZ8 Adat card. Also IBM THinkpad t40 1.6 1 gig ram

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is a Macbook + Live 5 reliable..?

Post by android » Sat Aug 05, 2006 11:30 pm

Hi lerky

I dont think RAM was the problem here.

I have a Macbook (512 RAM) buyed one month ago and a Ibook G3 (640 RAM). The same live set work better -in sound aspect- in G3. With the Macbook I have silences and MIDI sincronization problems.

I think, Live version of mac-intel is a stable and reliable version..? Are M-audio firewire drivers woking wrong..?

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lerky
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Post by lerky » Sat Aug 05, 2006 11:47 pm

have to disagree with you mate,
now with 2gb of ram I'm having no problems.

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Post by jamester » Sun Aug 06, 2006 2:39 am

Still, this means you need two gigs of ram just for decent performance? 8O

I have one gig on XP and I'm fine. Been fine for over two years now.

Macs... :wink:
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