"Bill Riel" wrote in message
I wrote:
To add to that - if you are using a notebook for
capture, you probably will need to get another sound
card (there are several affordable USB devices that
work well). Very few notebook sound cards have a
line-in:
Jenn replied with:
Macs do eg
Yes they do - my wife has a Mac Book that is a very nice
machine. I do like Macs quite a bit (I'm typing this on
an old iMac that we've had for years) but most of my
professional life requires the use of Windows.
My daughter has a Mac Notebook. It cost her about 3 times what a similar
Windows laptop would have cost her. She paid $100s more for a MacIntosh
extended warranty. When she had a problem with it, she had to send the whole
notebook out of town to be checked out. The repair facility said - hey
there's a tiny dent in corner of the case, the machine is therefore abused
and we won't honor the warranty.
I don't think she's buying another Mac real soon!
I haven't used the Mac for any audio capture, but I have
used a Toshiba notebook to record some vinyl. For that, I
have to use a USB audio device because the sound card
only accepts a mono input.
Not only does the laptop input only accept mono, it also has too much gain
because it is a microphone input.
The good news is that USB audio devices that equal or better any laptops
line input are readily available and relatively inexpensive. One to avoid
is called the iMic. One to look for is the Behringer UCA 202.
http://www.samedaymusic.com/product--BEHUCA202
Probably on the shelf at your local Guitar Center.