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I currently have an old and slow pc to record music and I want to replace it with a laptop. I know lots of people record on macs, but since all the stuff I previously recorded is on pc, I'm wanting to buy a windows laptop. Can someone help me find the right laptop? I want a laptop because I'm experimenting a lot with audiomulch when i'm on the train... Since I have a firewire audio-interface I want to be able to branch my firepod to the laptop...

This is the software I am currently running:
- ableton live 7
- reason (although I don't use it a lot lately)
- guitar rig
- a lot of, mostly free vst en vsti's
- Audiomulch

Hardware::
- presonus Firepod (FP10)
- nanoseries controllers
- midisport 4x4
 
I must admit I've already looked at the macbook pro's, but I'm not really familiar with the mac, altough I'm interested in it... the only thing that holds me back is that 1. al my previous projects I made with the pc will be lost and 2. the somewhat overexagerrated price... I also looked at the sony vaio, but I'm not sure how I could branch my firewire audio interface to it...
 
what is your budget? you can get a pretty decent laptop WELL under the overpriced Macs
 
Have you made sure about your sessions being lost?
Plugins may cause problems, but ableton sessions should be cross platform, as far as I know.

I was a pc guy and switched to mac a few years ago. No bias, no influence, no desire to have the brand name.
I just used macs at college and they worked perfectly, and made sense to me.

If you can stretch it, I do generally recommend MBPs to people now.
You could pick up a used 2011 i5 MBP refurbed or used within budget.
That's what I did last year. :)

It's a matter of much debate, but when I saw the difference in build quality between my mac and my old dell or other peoples toshibas, sony viaos etc, I felt like the extra money was worth it.
 
I saw a second hand MBP for around 965 and as far as a I know something about macs the specs look good:

Apple MacBook Pro 15 inch: 2,6 GHz Retina-display. 2,7 GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo boost aan 3.7GHz. 16GB 1600MHz DDR3L SDRAM. 768GB Flash Intel, HD Graphics 4000. NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 1GB GDDR5 memory.

what do you think?
 
As far as I know, you're listing the bang up to date models.

They're belter! :)
 
I love apple products, we have iphones, ipods, and an ipad2, but I just cant bring myself to fork over about 2 grand on a laptop that I can match spec wise with a windows based system for nearly half the money.

If you save money on your laptop thats more cash for gear.
 
You should be able to get a decent Windows laptop for $600 or less. But forget about finding built-in Firewire; Firewire is disappearing, even from Macs. Look at getting a laptop with an expansion card slot and then buying a Firewire card.
 
RWhite said:
You should be able to get a decent Windows laptop for $600 or less. But forget about finding built-in Firewire; Firewire is disappearing, even from Macs. Look at getting a laptop with an expansion card slot and then buying a Firewire card.
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Thunderbolt carries the firewire protocol, but your point is taken.
 
fideelski said:
I must admit I've already looked at the macbook pro's, but I'm not really familiar with the mac, altough I'm interested in it... the only thing that holds me back is that 1. al my previous projects I made with the pc will be lost and 2. the somewhat overexagerrated price... I also looked at the sony vaio, but I'm not sure how I could branch my firewire audio interface to it...
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you're new here so let me say that brodskyer is a spambot .... ignore him/her/it.

Nowadays the differences between Macs and PC's aren't that great and a good PC will absolutely record and do everything else just as well as a Mac.
There's no reason to choose a Mac over a PC laptop for recording purposes even though you'll probably have Mac fanbois faint over my heresy.
 
Lt. Bob said:
you're new here so let me say that brodskyer is a spambot .... ignore him/her/it.

Nowadays the differences between Macs and PC's aren't that great and a good PC will absolutely record and do everything else just as well as a Mac.
There's no reason to choose a Mac over a PC laptop for recording purposes even though you'll probably have Mac fanbois faint over my heresy.
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LOL..Well said!
 
Lt. Bob said:
you're new here so let me say that brodskyer is a spambot .... ignore him/her/it.

Nowadays the differences between Macs and PC's aren't that great and a good PC will absolutely record and do everything else just as well as a Mac.
There's no reason to choose a Mac over a PC laptop for recording purposes even though you'll probably have Mac fanbois faint over my heresy.
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^^^^^^^
 
have you got any ideas wich laptops would suit me? Taking in account that I need one with an expansion slot? It should also be quite portable, so maximum 15,4"
 
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