[LAU] Mac Book Pro or not

[julien lociuro]

 Hi Robert,

Thanks for your advices.
There is something I did not really understand:
> As far as audio applications go, if the application can use portaudio,
> jack or coreaudio, you're probably fine, but if it needs alsa then
> you're not. This applies to midi as well, which is quite a limitation at
> the moment, but will become less so as jack midi catches on.

With the above you say that midi & alsa will not work. But will not work in
MacOSX or on a Mac (even with a linux partition) in general?
I mean, is it possible to install linux (have dual boot: mac osx and linux)
on a Mac, and from a linux distro like 64Studio, use midi and alsa properly?

Thanks!

Julien



julien lociuro wrote:
> > Is it worthy to buy a Mac Book pro? Has anyone ever worked with this
> > machine?
> > I see that a linux can be installed on it. Is this recommended? Has
> > anyone worked with the Mac OSX?
> > Can we directly install linux apps on it as it is unix-bases os? (with
> > some additional libs?)
> A lot of *nix apps will work on mac os x either in a Cocoa native
> version or using X11. There are various package management systems to
> help you with this if you like, such as Fink, Darwinports and Gentoo.
> They all have their pros and cons, for instance I've found that Fink's
> packages are often a little out of date, while the other two usually
> build from source, which can be an inconvenience.
>
> As far as audio applications go, if the application can use portaudio,
> jack or coreaudio, you're probably fine, but if it needs alsa then
> you're not. This applies to midi as well, which is quite a limitation at
> the moment, but will become less so as jack midi catches on.
>
> Apart from this, I can't think of any ways in which you are likely to be
> worse off running intel mac os as opposed to Linux, except that it is
> probably possible to squeeze extra performance out of Linux system. From
> what I understand, the Mach-based kernel that OS X was quite
> inefficient, although I have also read somewhere either that this has
> changed somewhat or that it is going to change sooner or later. My
> memory is a bit foggy here, so you'll have to do your own research.
>
>
> >
> > Also, my concern is that it really costs a lot..in europe, 1800? for
> > the basic model (15" monitor).
> > With that money, isn't it better to buy another great laptop?
> If you want to run an OS apart from Linux, you're much better off with
> Mac OS than Windows.  There are, in any case, a number of ways to run
> Windows apps in Mac OS.
> >
> > Also, is there any problem with laptops and linux? How can I be sure
> > linux could installed on it..(graphic card, processor, firewire..)
> There are a number of websites addressing Linux laptop compatibility.
> The Ubuntu wiki I think has a good section on this. This can be a very
> tricky area. Chances are that intel macs will be relatively well
> supported like their predecessors, but you will need to do your
> research. One advantage of a mac is that if you do have problems with
> Linux hardware support, then you will at least have the option of
> switching to another quality OS that definitely "just works".
> >
> > Advices welcome!!
> >
> > Thank you very much.
> >
> > --
> > julien
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