What's up you guys, I need some assistance. If you could lend me your opinion that would be great. I'll try to be very specific here
I'm deciding between a 15.4 " Retina Macbook Pro 2.4GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 - or - 27" iMac 3.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i5
My workflow in Logic isn't strenuous by any means. I record only vocals (maybe 25 tracks at the most) over a pre-mixed instrumental track. I send off my sessions to be mixed professionally (by professionally I mean by a friend in Canada haha). I do add some EQ, compression, and maybe a mastering plugin just to get a feel for the way the track will sound before I send it off.
That's basically it. I work a little in photoshop and I web surf heavily, blogs, netflix, hulu, etc.
I'm about to start traveling more; I own a Macbook Air but it isn't really good for much so I'd be selling it. I like the appeal of having just 1 machine. With the Macbook Pro I will probably hook it up to my 40" Samsung LED while at my desk so the Retina screen isn't a bonus there, I say that to say this, in anyone's experience do the fans kick on fairly easy with it closed hooked to an external monitor having a decent sized session open, a couple web pages, & Netflix playing? It may annoy me hearing the fans constantly if that's the case
I know both of these machines are probably overkill but hey we gotta have our shiny toys right?!!
Also, thanks in advance for any helpful commentary!