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Have a desktop PC working with Live, Traktor, Wavelab.
As lotta pros and studio people recommend Mac, I think now choosing a laptop:
Macbook (Intel Core Duo 1.83, 512mb RAM, 60gb)
vs.
Sony Vaio (Intel Core Duo 1.66, 1gb RAM, 100gb)

The biggest pluses of Apple as I see is higher speed processor and support of both Win and OS. Except them, I like VAIO more as I used it. The most important for me is the perfomance as I use a lotta tracks and VSTs in Live and Cubase.

Welcome!

Search around. There's TONS of info on the forum regarding one computer box vs another.

Thx) Yeah, I've read a lot by now. But the damn thing is that I guess lotta people use Mac just coz of it's image and design of gear and OS. I've never used OS, but I don't have lotta time to do it, so many new software around (btw most of it, plug-ins especially, r win only)...I'm pleased by VAIO style, so the greatest deal is perfomance: who's gonna be faster and more stable - Macbook or Vaio with Intel Duo?

P.s: anybody can explain what's the difference between Intel Core Duo and Intel Core 2 Duo? And what type is installed on Macbook?

Windows on MacBook at this Time don't give you the full Power.(I read somewere)
But who need's Windows?

I use a MacBook (2Ghz 1GB Ram) with Live and it work's great.
Waiting for the NI-Kontakt2 IntelMac Update.

I would go for MAC.

macbook

Lots of performance tests here:

http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic. ... highlight=

Probably do better then a Sony......

-Ben

Tell me what made Apple an industry-standard computer? If it's an OS, then what so special about it?
Of course u can say, go'n'try, but I'd appreciate if somebody shared xperience...

i'd never buy a VAIO. lots of un-necessary processes and applications running.
i mean, if you want to go PC, choose another product.

What kinda unnecessary apps r u talking about?

Scinner wrote:What kinda unnecessary apps r u talking about?

it could be, like in the case of my ibm laptop, you have a lot of "propietary" applications, like in my case ibm data restore utility and so on, which take space on the harddisk and make processes run in the background.

I uninstalled every ibm program by re-installing the OS from scratch, so I saved 7 giga of space in the harddisk (more than the 10% of my 60 GB hd) and I don't have unwanted processes running in the background.

I don't know exactly which apps sony bundles with their laptops but I think you can uninstall them all.

they put a kind of "easy to use taskbar" on top of windows taskbar.
it's a pain in the ass. and you never know whether removing it will harm your computer.
and it's the same with a lot of processes.

i don't have one so it's hard to tell. but a friend of mine has got one (just to surf the net and stuff), and even for that it sucks.

I've got a Vaio and I would never buy another Sony Product, it's full of background processes and worthless apps and it has a power supply fault meaning it had to be sent back to Holland to be fixed, for no reason it just shut down, the shop couldn't give a f*ck "Oh no mate all Sony service is done by user return" I was without the thing for a week and now I don't trust it at all. I have partioned the HD and put a clean, stripped XP Pro install on it and it seems ok.

I'm not saying all Sony products are sh*t, just the ones I've bought.

God I miss my TiBook, I think a 24" Imac will be up next.

WHen I bought my new laptop (DELL Intel Core 2 Duo 2.16Ghz, 2GB RAM, 100GB, 17" display) the thing which I think made the most difference of all is the fact that the harddrive spins at 7200rpm. On my previous laptop I had disk streaming issues.

Whether you go with Apple, Sony (or DELL, who I very strongly recommend) you should make sure the hard disk speed is 7200rpm.

You Vs Me who would win?