Originally Posted by Emma65
Are you my twin or something?
The reason I ditched the old 12" PB 867 for the macbook was for sound editing.
I also needed a better graphics card for the video editing and for producing websites.
I'm not worried about the heat so much. I have solutions for that. I'm mostly tied to a desk when in UK but want portability for travels.
Had apple released a 12" MBP I would probably have gone for that. However, the bigger screen is nice.
Now, what else do we have in common?
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*LOL* I have the feeling you get a lot more use out of your MBP than I do. No website design here although the stronger video is VERY nice to have. I'm anxiously awaiting a desktop PowerMac and 12" MBP (or smaller!). Once that happens, I will replace my travel machine and my office desktop.
I'm an amateur audio archivist. I take old reels/discs and attempt to recover the audio on them. Content varies. It may be spoken word from a long-dead relative, or a musical performance, etc. I enjoy doing it and it gives the ability to write off a lot of this expensive equipment. It's also fascinating to hear voices and stories from the past. The work is time consuming and definitely a labor of love as it's definitely more costly in time invested than what I charge.
Sometimes this is
very easy, sometimes the tapes/discs are in such poor shape that I cannot recover them. The software I use is Bias'
Soundsoap Pro with a Metric Halo
Mobile I/O ULN-2 doing the capture. I also digitize my own collection of reels and vinyl to listen to while on the road using a Fujitsu subnotebook and
this. Not as small as an iPod but iPods don't do high-res audio.
I have to admit I haven't tried any of the pricier software suites but Soundsoap hasn't let me down yet. No universal binaries yet but the MBP has so much more power and memory that it still seems more than twice as fast.