[Jakeypooh]

Hey guys, I am a pretty serious multi-instrument musician and I am very interested in recording on my own. I am looking for a laptop that would be capable of handling recording several layers of tracks, and also be durable enough so that if I were to take it to my live shows I could record and not worry too much about the product breaking.

My question is, what would be a preferable choice for me, a macbook, or a macbook pro?

Thanks in advance.

[Anoesis]

well the difference would be the macbook shares the system ram for intergrated video so you would have less available ram (which isnt that much) for having multiple audio and/or midi tracks with a bunch of plug-ins. with a macbook pro you have dedicated video. other than that screen size is a factor for recording programs; more screen more things you can have onscreen at once, and mbp has fw800 which a number of audio interfaces use. the mbp has a max ram @ 3gb when the MB's is only 2 again the more ram you have the more tracks and plugins you can have running at once.