Shane just saw this. Factory Direct
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That's almost worth being locked in mortal combat with three hundred other people full of Christmas spirit. That $40 e-reader ain't bad either
Thinking about buying a Mac laptop
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That's almost worth being locked in mortal combat with three hundred other people full of Christmas spirit. That $40 e-reader ain't bad either
Thanks for the sale flyer Joe - I got one a little better than that, although that one looks like a great deal for lots of people.
I still have to set it up with my Serato and so on, but I'm confident I'll be happy.
I still have to set it up with my Serato and so on, but I'm confident I'll be happy.
Factory direct has had those on and off for the last year or so, usually around $299 though so $239 is good. Take note that they're usually in "well loved" condition however, so don't expect them to be up the usual quality of Apple Refurbished. This generation Macbook suffered from cracks around the outside edge of the keyboard and most of the ones I looked at at FD had the issue. It's just cosmetic, but it is what it is. My 10 year old one has the same cracks.
These are also pretty aged machines as well, but still perfectly capable for everyday use as an email/surfing type machine - perfect for someone who's wanted to try out Apple/Mac without a huge cost outlay. Just don't expect to do any heavy lifting/gaming on them.
Hey mimico polak - clear your inbox - trying to reply to your PM
those factory direct units look to be about 2006 or 2007 models. Long in the tooth, possibly a maximum of 3.5gb of ram. Also some of those macbook models had a tendency to lose the video...
I picked up 13" Macbook Pro with an i5 processor, with 8GB RAM (upgradeable to 16GB) and a 1TB harddrive upgradeable to 4TB. This is more than good enough for me. At least I can finally play music again - it's been over 6 months.
I still need to figure out how I am going to record my music as high bitrate mp3 files. An external usb based sound card or something like that.
Or if anyone knows of someone selling a Serato SL3 box and I would then sell off my SL1 box.
Thanks again for everyone's info!
The Mac has a couple options, I think audacity or something like that. The headphone jack is also optical out (might be input too) and microphone in. I believe it will do support surround if hooked up to an appropriate system via optical. Check the App Store for music apps.
Sounds like you have a sweet machine there. Mine is a 2009 upgraded to 8gb. Dunno if there's a limit on HDd, have a 500gb in there right now.
Can't help you on the audio, but best thing you can possibly do is install an SSD hard drive. The speed difference is night and day.
@shanekingsley http://www.mactip.net/how-to-record-sound-on-a-mac/ free
Thanks - I have used audacity before and it's ok. I prefer wavelab because I found that file recordings were of much higher quality, but the downside was recording as a wave file and then converting to MP3. I might just go back to using audacity and grabbing an external sound card. Will have time in an few days to play with this once holiday stuff is done.
But the wavelab I had was for pc and I would prefer to not have to pay for it to have it on the Mac.
edit: downloaded audacity again and used a usb based sound recorder call inport by xitel - cheap and easy and gives out great sound for how simple it is. Time to start recording music again
But the wavelab I had was for pc and I would prefer to not have to pay for it to have it on the Mac.
edit: downloaded audacity again and used a usb based sound recorder call inport by xitel - cheap and easy and gives out great sound for how simple it is. Time to start recording music again
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Offtopic question, but you kinda got into audio recording. There's a mix where the gain goes nuclear. Go to 48:30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sui24hHDZDI What's the best way to normalize volume, preferably without re-encoding the whole thing.
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sorry don't know, but that gain went totally nuclear - what a vibe killah!
Are you talking about fixing that exact mix? It's impossible, that clipping is forever.
If you want to normalize volume without making changes to a piece of media, you need a media player with a normalization plugin. VLC, for example, can do this to some extent
The loss of fidelity of having to re-encode it would be minimal, and being able to edit it in something like Audacity would make things a lot easier for you
this. Just record the whole file and cut the middle and rerecord it with the volume lower and reinsert the edited clip. This can be easily done in audacity.
After upgrading to El Capitan did you install all of the subsequent patches and updates? If not you'll find them in the system updater waiting for you, some of them might help.
Secondly, how much RAM do you have? With every OSX upgrade comes more and more ram demand – best money you'll ever spend on any computer for a performance improvement is maxing out your ram.
I have a pretty base spec late '13 13" MBP, mine is running perfectly fine on El Cap. Maybe there's an app that's hogging resources? Check the Activity Monitor
