Best Mac Laptops for Music

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Apple MacBook Pro MB134LL/A

$1,750.00 Est. at Amazon

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it:?speedy, easy to use, great display what's not so great:?some software not mac friendly "100% worth the price you pay...we use ours for every day use, business, recording music...everything!
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great music and photos.
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i use it mostly for music, internet, pictures, movies, homework pretty much what everybody uses a computer for.
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time ago that when i first turned on my mbp and saw the bright screen and colors and the power this machine has while i run heavy software, listen to music and watch videos, it just blew me away!
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this has the speed of a desktop, the memory necessary to be a musician and a desktop publisher (which i am).

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Positives: Powerful, Easy To Use, Attractive Design, Display Size: 15.4 in.

2 RECOMMENDED by 7 people for MUSIC

Apple MacBook Pro MB470LL/A Notebook

$2,250.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
there is an stanford laptop orchestra uses macbook pros to make music using these accelerometers.
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ilife (included software) is great (photo management, make movies, create music and learn to play an instrument, publish and manage websites).
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what i wanted from a computer was a place to keep all my photos, music, stories (i enjoy writing), etc; nothing extreme, just the everyday stuff that most people probably use their computer for.
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i'm sure that watching videos and listening to music would impact that noticeably.
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overall, with normal use, (like web surfing, video chatting, and listing to music) i get about 3.5 to 4 hours of battery life.

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Positives: Powerful, Attractive Design, Easy To Use, Display Size: 15.4 in.

3 RECOMMENDED by 7 people for MUSIC

Apple MacBook Pro MC026LL/A 15.4-Inch Laptop

$1,924.00 Est. at Amazon

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there is an stanford laptop orchestra uses macbook pros to make music using these accelerometers.
from www.amazon.com
ilife (included software) is great (photo management, make movies, create music and learn to play an instrument, publish and manage websites).
from www.amazon.com
what i wanted from a computer was a place to keep all my photos, music, stories (i enjoy writing), etc; nothing extreme, just the everyday stuff that most people probably use their computer for.
from www.amazon.com
i'm sure that watching videos and listening to music would impact that noticeably.
from www.amazon.com
overall, with normal use, (like web surfing, video chatting, and listing to music) i get about 3.5 to 4 hours of battery life.

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Positives: Powerful, Attractive Design, Easy To Use, Display Size: 15.4 in.

4 RECOMMENDED by 7 people for MUSIC

Apple MacBook Pro MB471LL/A Notebook

$2,850.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
there is an stanford laptop orchestra uses macbook pros to make music using these accelerometers.
from www.amazon.com
ilife (included software) is great (photo management, make movies, create music and learn to play an instrument, publish and manage websites).
from www.amazon.com
what i wanted from a computer was a place to keep all my photos, music, stories (i enjoy writing), etc; nothing extreme, just the everyday stuff that most people probably use their computer for.
from www.amazon.com
i'm sure that watching videos and listening to music would impact that noticeably.
from www.amazon.com
overall, with normal use, (like web surfing, video chatting, and listing to music) i get about 3.5 to 4 hours of battery life.

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Positives: Powerful, Attractive Design, Easy To Use, Display Size: 15.4 in.

5 RECOMMENDED by 7 people for MUSIC

Apple MacBook Pro MB604LL/A Notebook

$2,215.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
there is an stanford laptop orchestra uses macbook pros to make music using these accelerometers.
from www.amazon.com
ilife (included software) is great (photo management, make movies, create music and learn to play an instrument, publish and manage websites).
from www.amazon.com
overall, with normal use, (like web surfing, video chatting, and listing to music) i get about 3.5 to 4 hours of battery life.
from www.amazon.com
what i wanted from a computer was a place to keep all my photos, music, stories (i enjoy writing), etc; nothing extreme, just the everyday stuff that most people probably use their computer for.
from www.amazon.com
i'm sure that watching videos and listening to music would impact that noticeably.

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Positives: Powerful, Attractive Design, Easy To Use, Display Size: 17 in.

Apple MacBook MA472LL/A Mac Notebook

Apple MacBook (Black) (MA472LL/A) Mac Notebook

$499.00 Est. at Amazon

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the bundled ilife software with this product allow a novice mac user the chance to work with digital music and photo without the frustration of application incompatibility.
from www.amazon.com
3- the opinion: so far i have it for two weeks, and i can say that it's about 2x faster than my 1.5ghz g4 powerbook, when encoding video for ipod and encoding music in itunes.
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frontrow and the remote control is awesome, very impressive, although it doesn't seem to control the volume if you are listening to music through an airport express.
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without headphones, hearing sound when watching dvds is hard, since dvds have a wide sound range, so the lower volume sound, like dialog can be difficult to hear whereas the music and explosions are
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as a music composer and performer, i knew a lot about pc software and have been a cakewalk customer for numerous years.

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Positives: Powerful, Attractive Design, Easy To Use, Display Size: 13.3 in.

Apple MB463LL/A Mac mini Notebook

$735.00 Est. at Amazon

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i put a 500gb hard drive into this mini and placed all my movies and music on it.
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i stream content to it, use it as a music server with airport expresses spread throughout the house (all controlled by an iphone of course).
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i do mostly photo and music stuff.
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works great for music and movies.
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apple tv had help to bridge that gap, in getting music, tv shows, and podcasts to my high definition television in the living room, but what about streaming video, web pages, etc?

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Positives: Powerful, Great Sound Quality, Easy To Use, Weight: 2.9 lb.

Apple MB464LL/A Mac mini Notebook

$815.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
i stream content to it, use it as a music server with airport expresses spread throughout the house (all controlled by an iphone of course).
from www.amazon.com
i put a 500gb hard drive into this mini and placed all my movies and music on it.
from www.amazon.com
works great for music and movies.
from www.amazon.com
i do mostly photo and music stuff.
from www.amazon.com
apple tv had help to bridge that gap, in getting music, tv shows, and podcasts to my high definition television in the living room, but what about streaming video, web pages, etc?

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Positives: Powerful, Good Sound Quality, Easy To Use, Weight: 2.9 lb.

Apple Macbook Pro MB166LL/A Notebook

$3,289.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
i use it mostly for music, internet, pictures, movies, homework pretty much what everybody uses a computer for.
from www.amazon.com
time ago that when i first turned on my mbp and saw the bright screen and colors and the power this machine has while i run heavy software, listen to music and watch videos, it just blew me away!
from www.amazon.com
i especially like iphoto for organizing pictures, imovie for video clips, and even garageband for creating music and laying voice over onto karaoke songs.
from www.amazon.com
if you do alot of film/photo/music editing, this is da choice for you.
from www.amazon.com
this has the speed of a desktop, the memory necessary to be a musician and a desktop publisher (which i am).

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Positives: Powerful, Attractive Design, Easy To Use, Display Size: 17 in.

Apple Macbook Pro MB133LL/A Notebook

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from www.amazon.com
time ago that when i first turned on my mbp and saw the bright screen and colors and the power this machine has while i run heavy software, listen to music and watch videos, it just blew me away!
from www.amazon.com
i use it mostly for music, internet, pictures, movies, homework pretty much what everybody uses a computer for.
from www.amazon.com
this has the speed of a desktop, the memory necessary to be a musician and a desktop publisher (which i am).
from www.amazon.com
i especially like iphoto for organizing pictures, imovie for video clips, and even garageband for creating music and laying voice over onto karaoke songs.
from www.amazon.com
i had over two hundred gigs of music in my itunes library.

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Positives: Powerful, Attractive Design, Easy To Use, Operating System: Apple MacOS X 10.5

Apple MacBook MB061LL/B Mac Notebook

$799.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
i use my laptop to for my music, photo album, investing analysis, communications.
from www.amazon.com
when i ordered it i thought i could put all my collection of movies, tv shows, videos and music in to manage an ipod touch with ease, i was asking for too much.
from www.amazon.com
it drops to 2.5-3 when i am listening to music and surfing the web.
from www.amazon.com
for example, my friend is somewhat inexperienced with computers, and i was able to get on her computer remotely and transfer her music from her ipod to her new computer.
from www.amazon.com
i love iweb, i also love how easy garage band is to operate seeing i do music.

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Positives: Powerful, Easy To Use, Attractive Design, Display Size: 13.3 in.

Apple MacBook Air MB543LL/A Mac Notebook

$1,290.00 Est. at Amazon

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most software is accessible over the internet; i do however keep a macbook air superdrive at home for the rare occasion where i use cds (usually when ripping music or installing operating systems).
from www.amazon.com
also - with the rev a, i compromised - by not having my music, photos and other large files with me.
from www.amazon.com
also i have found it surprisingly easy to live without a optical drive, as most software is accessible over the internet; i do however keep a macbook air superdrive at home for the rare occasion
from www.amazon.com
my experience has been that once i start using the laptop to burn cds and dvds, watch movies, record and mix live music, etc., it soon becomes cluttered with programs and files and hangs up on me,

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Positives: Great Portability, Powerful, Attractive Design, Display Size: 13.3 in.

Apple MacBook Air MB940LL/A Mac Notebook

$1,875.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
most software is accessible over the internet; i do however keep a macbook air superdrive at home for the rare occasion where i use cds (usually when ripping music or installing operating systems).
from www.amazon.com
also - with the rev a, i compromised - by not having my music, photos and other large files with me.
from www.amazon.com
also i have found it surprisingly easy to live without a optical drive, as most software is accessible over the internet; i do however keep a macbook air superdrive at home for the rare occasion
from www.amazon.com
my experience has been that once i start using the laptop to burn cds and dvds, watch movies, record and mix live music, etc., it soon becomes cluttered with programs and files and hangs up on me,

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Positives: Excellent Portability, Powerful, Attractive Design, Display Size: 13.3 in.

Apple MacBook MB063LL/B

$1,777.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
when i ordered it i thought i could put all my collection of movies, tv shows, videos and music in to manage an ipod touch with ease, i was asking for too much.
from www.amazon.com
it drops to 2.5-3 when i am listening to music and surfing the web.
from www.amazon.com
i use my laptop to for my music, photo album, investing analysis, communications.
from www.amazon.com
just like when i switched to an ipod, my first words were, "wow this is how a music player should work!
from www.amazon.com
for example, my friend is somewhat inexperienced with computers, and i was able to get on her computer remotely and transfer her music from her ipod to her new computer.

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Positives: Powerful, Easy To Use, Attractive Design, Display Size: 13.3 in.

Apple MacBook Core 2 Duo 2.16GHz

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it has not crashed/hung except once when i trued to make a copy of a music cd when it was being copied to a burn folder.
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i've done a whole lot of video and music work and it's worked seamlessly.
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if you're going to do nothing but surf the internet, email, and listen to music, then get the no-frills, cheapest macbook you can.
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i use this computer constantly, and for a number of different tasks (music and movies, internet, word processing, etc...pretty much everything).
from www.amazon.com
- you can not buy (at least at the time of this review) music and videos on amazon.com - they do not support macs at this time.

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Positives: Powerful, Easy To Use, Nice Portability

Apple MacBook MB881LL/A Mac Notebook

$1,200.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
to the problem" pop ups, zero "this program has stopped working", zero freezes, zero compatibility issues with current hardware (external drive of music and wireless network), and zero defects found.
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without fail they make editing, and music composer a breeze.
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if you plan to work with photos, have a large music collection, or just have a lot of files in general, you will want to upgrade the hard drive.
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since i've started using my mac i have had zero "trying to find a solution to the problem" pop ups, zero "this program has stopped working", zero freezes, zero compatibility issues with current

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Positives: Powerful, Easy To Use, Excellent Portability, Display Size: 13.3 in.

Apple MacBook MB467LL/A Mac Notebook

$1,150.00 Est. at Amazon

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certain music production applications (ableton live and reason) would stall on start up and it would take me 3-5 time of ending the task and restarting the app before i could getting it running
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- your iphone headset works on the mb like on the iphone, it pauses music in itunes, quicktime and skips to next song etc..
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any voices are still audible and understandable as is the music and other effects.
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easy enough to carry everywhere and listen to music / multimedia...
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i find i'm using more and more hard drive space for music, movies and photos as their quality increases.

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Positives: Powerful, Easy To Use, Attractive Design, Display Size: 13.3 in.

Intel MB466LL/A Mac Notebook

$1,350.00 Est. at Amazon

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certain music production applications (ableton live and reason) would stall on start up and it would take me 3-5 time of ending the task and restarting the app before i could getting it running
from www.amazon.com
- your iphone headset works on the mb like on the iphone, it pauses music in itunes, quicktime and skips to next song etc..
from www.amazon.com
i could go on about all the reasons i love my new macbook, such as the ability to link up with the itunes playlists of other macbooks and listen to other people's music, the long battery life, etc.
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i find i'm using more and more hard drive space for music, movies and photos as their quality increases.
from www.amazon.com
easy enough to carry everywhere and listen to music / multimedia...

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Positives: Powerful, Easy To Use, Attractive Design, Display Size: 13.3 in.

Apple MacBook MC240LL/A Mac Notebook

$1,050.00 Est. at Amazon

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even the mac "pro" at the store recommended it over some of the more expensive ones due to my husband primarily using it for office programs and internet based with some photos and music on the side.
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i have to keep pretty much all of my media (photos, music) on my other machine, but it doesn't really hinder me too much.

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Positives: Powerful, Nice Portability, Easy To Use, Display Size: 13.3 in.

Apple MA895LLA 15.4" MacBook Pro Notebook Computer

$2,636.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
i play a lot of music on my mbp that's why i really thought the speaker quality was not good enough.
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i am a musician and sound designer and this machine is fast and stable.
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my favorite feature in garageband is "magic garageband." with magic garageband you can select a style of music and then change instruments and sounds and make your own song off a preloaded one apple
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the included software that loads and edits pictures, music, and video is all nicely integrated and very easy to use, and also more than adequate for the casual user.

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Positives: Powerful, Easy To Use, Long Battery Life, Display Size: 15.4 in.

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Best Mac Laptops for Music

Apple MacBook Pro MB134LL/A

Apple MacBook Pro MB470LL/A Notebook

Apple MacBook Pro MC026LL/A 15.4-Inch Laptop

Apple MacBook Pro MB471LL/A Notebook

Apple MacBook Pro MB604LL/A Notebook

Apple MacBook MA472LL/A Mac Notebook

Apple MB463LL/A Mac mini Notebook

Apple MB464LL/A Mac mini Notebook

Apple Macbook Pro MB166LL/A Notebook

Apple Macbook Pro MB133LL/A Notebook

Apple MacBook MB061LL/B Mac Notebook

Apple MacBook Air MB543LL/A Mac Notebook

Apple MacBook Air MB940LL/A Mac Notebook

Apple MacBook MB063LL/B

Apple MacBook Core 2 Duo 2.16GHz

Apple MacBook MB881LL/A Mac Notebook

Apple MacBook MB467LL/A Mac Notebook

Intel MB466LL/A Mac Notebook

Apple MacBook MC240LL/A Mac Notebook

Apple MA895LLA 15.4" MacBook Pro Notebook Computer

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