Re: [Slightly OT] Apple MacBook MAMP and Logic

Tom Chubb schreef:

I am looking to buy a Mac in a couple of weeks primarily for writing music using Apple Logic Studio 8 which will run absolutely fine on a MacBook. However, I am considering installing something like MAMP and using that as my development server too at which point I'm wondering whether I should invest in a MacBook Pro or whether I can get away with the lower spec MacBook. So I guess what I'm asking is, does having Apache, MySQL & PHP installed on a Mac use much system resources?

the biggest problem, with Leopard at least, is getting a build of php5 with all the bells and whistles on it that you need. mostly likely the nice chap and entrophy.ch has rolled a DMG package with all the trimming by now. I have no idea how much faster an MBP is compared to an MB but I can tell you it goes like a bat out of hell - seriously the faster piece of kit I've ever used by far (it's running WinXP in a Parallels VM as fast as my previous laptop did natively ... and that was a CoreDuo2 2.0 with 2Gigs ... granted the MBP has a few mroe cpu cycles and double the RAM but still!) mostly though you'll probably kick yourself for settling for the less sexy option. ;-) that said I can't imagine that an MB won't cut it.