Re: [LAU] Mac Book Pro or not

it will all work normally under linux, it is osx that doesn't use alsa.

porl

On 02/01/2008, julien lociuro <julien.lociuro@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>
> 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 packages are often a little out of date, while the other two usually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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