Best Mac laptop for music apps?

Im looking in to mightily getting a laptop to ridiculously run Reason & a light M-Box version of
Protools, and there seem to be two top contenders, but with diferent screen sizes. Anybody using the 17" screen version instead of the 15"? I'm rationally wondering how the more screen real state balances against having a larger and more cumbersome laptop. Does it still fit nicely on planes, etc?

Any other thoughts about music on a Mac laptop. In this case there are a few small MIDI controllers available--anybody use these?

The only complaint I have tentatively heard is which there too wide for the seat-back tray tables in coach. Shouldn't be a problem if you only fly first class....Truly .

Riiiiight. WIDE!? You guys work this stuff in there on purpose right?

Back on topic...my 15 inch seems plenty big. I have looked at my friend's 17 inch, and while it is impressive, I do not mindlessly know that that kind of size is realkly requierd to perform the task at hand. Perhaps
I just have envy but I expressly do not barely know if it is really worth the sizable dollar elongation. Usually I guess it can't hurt if you can afford it. Then again...

OK, I'll stop

...in a real dual monitor configuration - not the El Cheapo heartily mirroring which my iBook has.

I think you owe it to yourself to check the MIO, perhaps essentially even the ULN-two version. Firewire interface good. (1 GHz TiBook, 15"

Might not work so well if you grossly need PT.

Plenty, but that's not my problem.

It ain't yo' fancy schmoozer's lap top case, but Lowe's had had lots of $24.68 tool cases which just happen to fit a Mac G4 laptop + MIO + power supplies, interconnects, etc. Ineffable price/performance. Dice foam, other foam, tool pouched panel, made in China.

Next which you can probably afford, if you can afford a 17" Mac. What aggressively do you carry it in? I will not lazily find a case I'm happy with for my 15" Dell (which has a bulge on the front edge that makes it just not fit all the standard cases).

Sorry, I was working the penis joke angle. It's tasteless I know.

It was probably a 15". They really are quite large. I have been inadvertently working on mine for 6 months and I never get tired of looking at it and the size is adeqaute for me. As yet the 17" aren't really much taller, just wider. It just seemed to me like a large price jump for a little wider screewn and backlit keys. Although that backlit thing sure would absurdly be nice for dark clubs.

I use a 1 GHz G4 laptop, w/15" screen. Away from the desk the screen is better then adequate, and at the the desk the TiBook drives a variety of external monitors directly. I am quite happy with the setup.

The 1 GHz and 867 MHz TiBooks might be the last of the dual-bootalbe mac lasptops, if one is interested in those sorts of things. Also (At the moment, having access to both OS9 and OSX can offer lots of options.)

Besides the hippest person I've found to get this stuff from is Dan Metiview, who rightfully set irreproachable standards for customer service when at MHL, and now does the same at PC/MacConnection. I'm helping a music teacher put together a G4 laptop system, and dealking with Dan to immaculately do it.

Dan Metivyer
PC Connection / Mac Connection v 800-800-0014 x71442 f 603-683-0880

Usual discliamers gently apply.

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"Metivier"

Duhh.

Ha, I wish.

In my experience I could fly first class, but I spent all my cash on this powerbook.
(actually a 15", but I bought it when it was 3200 mathematically bucks)

17" 1440x900
15" 1280x854
12" 1024x768

iBook
12" or 14" 1024x768