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I'm using a 13" MBP (with Core 2 Duo processor) for doing music recording / production. I only record a couple tracks at a time (but mix and playback more), so

by tjr 16y ago

I'm using a 13" MBP (with Core 2 Duo processor) for doing music recording / production. I only record a couple tracks at a time (but mix and playback more), so this may not count as uber-power-usage, but it's more than text editing, and it works fine.

pyre 16y ago
You're probably not using a low-voltage version of the processor though. This could make a difference (I'm assuming that Apple is using the lv or ulv version of the Core2Duo in the MBA).
- masklinn 16y ago
  > I'm assuming that Apple is using the lv or ulv version of the Core2Duo in the MBA They do already (the low-profile LV and ULV), and I'm pretty sure they'll keep on doing just that. I'm not even sure there's a non-ULV C2D at such low frequencies.
- pmjordan 16y ago
  There is no performance difference for Core2Duo generation CPUs with identical clock speeds and cache size but different TDP ratings. The LV/ULV ones are the same chips as "regular" mobile (or even desktop) dice but hand-picked for their low consumption. It gets murkier with the Core iX generation due to the automatic overclocking mechanism.
travisjeffery 16y ago
I make electronic music. And I basically stop making a track and render when I literally cannot do anything more to it. I don't like bouncing thing down but by the end of my productions I literally have every single track frozen (so that I can still mess around with the MIDI/automation and such.) I put a ton of stuff on my aux busses that I can't freeze so that's where the CPU goes but man, I would LOVE LOVE LOVE if I have something faster (4 GB MPB 15" 2.53 GHZ Core 2 Duo.) And really why settle for what we have anyway -- don't get me wrong I'm very happy with the way things are now and humbly understand what it was like back in the day...but this is how we advance things by questioning and being unsatisfied with what we have now and making the future. [For those curious: http://soundcloud.com/gau5/spotlight http://soundcloud.com/gau5/spotlight -- to listen and download here, any other music people on here send me some links! :)]
- tjr 16y ago
  Nice tracks. I had never heard of soundcloud before. I did not mean to imply that we should settle for current technology, nor that the Core 2 Duo processor was the most totally awesomest thing ever. I just meant to posit that it was perfectly adequate for more than the most trivial of computing tasks, and, implicitly, many MBA users will probably be fine with it.

by tjr 16y ago

pyre 16y ago

You're probably not using a low-voltage version of the processor though. This could make a difference (I'm assuming that Apple is using the lv or ulv version of the Core2Duo in the MBA).

masklinn 16y ago
> I'm assuming that Apple is using the lv or ulv version of the Core2Duo in the MBA They do already (the low-profile LV and ULV), and I'm pretty sure they'll keep on doing just that. I'm not even sure there's a non-ULV C2D at such low frequencies.
pmjordan 16y ago
There is no performance difference for Core2Duo generation CPUs with identical clock speeds and cache size but different TDP ratings. The LV/ULV ones are the same chips as "regular" mobile (or even desktop) dice but hand-picked for their low consumption. It gets murkier with the Core iX generation due to the automatic overclocking mechanism.

travisjeffery 16y ago

I make electronic music. And I basically stop making a track and render when I literally cannot do anything more to it. I don't like bouncing thing down but by the end of my productions I literally have every single track frozen (so that I can still mess around with the MIDI/automation and such.) I put a ton of stuff on my aux busses that I can't freeze so that's where the CPU goes but man, I would LOVE LOVE LOVE if I have something faster (4 GB MPB 15" 2.53 GHZ Core 2 Duo.) And really why settle for what we have anyway -- don't get me wrong I'm very happy with the way things are now and humbly understand what it was like back in the day...but this is how we advance things by questioning and being unsatisfied with what we have now and making the future. [For those curious: http://soundcloud.com/gau5/spotlight http://soundcloud.com/gau5/spotlight -- to listen and download here, any other music people on here send me some links! :)]

tjr 16y ago
Nice tracks. I had never heard of soundcloud before. I did not mean to imply that we should settle for current technology, nor that the Core 2 Duo processor was the most totally awesomest thing ever. I just meant to posit that it was perfectly adequate for more than the most trivial of computing tasks, and, implicitly, many MBA users will probably be fine with it.