macbook 1gyg ram terribly poor performance

bobaphat · Post by **bobaphat** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 3:47 pm

I recently bought myself a macbook with 1gyg ram, and Ableton is the only software i use right now.

When i run the the demo songs,, my laptop just freezes half way in the song. My macbook cant even play the demo song in Live5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is this normal? I know ableton 5 is not dual core supportive but this is just terrible.

Amaury · Post by **Amaury** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 3:53 pm

Hello,

I guess you are using an older version of Live: Live 5.2 introdiced Universal Binary support, see here for details:

http://www.ableton.com/pages/upgrade?type=intel_mac

Kind regards,
Amaury

Angstrom · Post by **Angstrom** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 3:55 pm

and you are using 5.2 I assume, as is documented absolutely everywhere 5.2 on a macbook pro will give very good speed.

less than 5.2 won't.

but I'm sure you checked that obvious step out .. so I'm not sure what your problem is.

-- aha, I see Amo beat me to it.

bobaphat · Post by **bobaphat** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 4:39 pm

i already got 5.2

I want to narrow down all possible problems, im afraid that there is something wrong with my macbook. Does macbook also run with rosetta on dual core processors???

Angstrom · Post by **Angstrom** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 4:44 pm

have you compared your performance to that of similar machines using the live 5 performance test?

http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24715&

obviously MBP results are toward the end of that monster thread.

mcconaghy · Post by **mcconaghy** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 5:43 pm

bobaphat wrote:i already got 5.2

I want to narrow down all possible problems, im afraid that there is something wrong with my macbook. Does macbook also run with rosetta on dual core processors???

There are 2 versions of 5.2, a PowerPC version and a Universal version - crtl-click on the app, get the info on the app and see if it says Kind: Application (Universal) under the general section. If it says Kind: Application (PowerPC) you're not running the Universal Binary version.

Pasha · Post by **Pasha** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 9:32 am

Everything alright now?

bobaphat · Post by **bobaphat** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:29 pm

I brought the macbook back to the store cause i also got some other trouble like kernell panics and monitor errors.

it ll take m 2 weeks to test and repair,,, they didnt want to give me a new one 1 week after buying the damn thing

Pasha · Post by **Pasha** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 8:54 pm

bobaphat wrote:I brought the macbook back to the store cause i also got some other trouble like kernell panics and monitor errors.

it ll take m 2 weeks to test and repair,,, they didnt want to give me a new one 1 week after buying the damn thing

Sorry for that. I think you were unlucky.
Something similar to : http://www.appledefects.com/wiki/index. ... le=MacBook ?
I hate when people get our money for their stuff and behave with such lack of respect for their customers (felonies)

bobaphat · Post by **bobaphat** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 3:36 pm

got the macbook back, still runs like shit

Slow screen redraws, gradualy stuttering of the mous, sometimes having to click 10 times before opening a folder. Jezus, help me, im about to go crazy with this $1300 peace of shit.

mcconaghy · Post by **mcconaghy** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 5:46 pm

Did you really make sure you have the Universal Binary version of Live 5.2? I'd check that before you make any other decisions, dude.

tylenol · Post by **tylenol** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 9:07 pm

Is this normal?

No -- I have a macbook with only 512MB ram as of yet and I can play the demo songs just fine (though there is the occasional CPU spike). In fact, I'm pretty sure they more or less worked on a G3; I know I played around with them before I got my macbook and don't remember having any major problems (maybe one or two wouldn't work). So you have something seriously wrong or you don't have the UB version.