About to buy MacBook for PT > Will it work?

[slinky005]

Using MBox 2 micro.
If I buy a MBP tomorrow how can I be sure that PT (8.0.3pr or 8.0.3) will work on Snow Leopard? Judging from the reactions here I'm very concerned.

[zodo]

Well, seeing as it's a preview you probably shouldn't expect to get mission critical stuff done with it. That said, it works well for me. The people who speak up here are the ones who have problems...the ones who don't have no need to visit the DUC. :-)

There is bound to be a final Snow Leopard release in the relatively near future. The preview will either work fine for you, or work in some capacity. What do you gain by waiting on buying a new MBP? If it were me, I'd get it now, figuring that the potential of getting more work done now would be worth it. :D

[slinky005]

Good point about the ones who visit the forum.
Having said it's working for you, what is your audio hardware?
Is it possible that the 8.0.3 (not pr) will work?

[ghedgepath]

I've gotten it to work FLAWLESSLY but with a few catches. My intent was to run Protools 8 with Complete Production Toolkit with a new, 3ghz Macbook Pro and Snow Leopard with a new Apple 24" display. I found that PT 8.0.3pr seemed to work but when I loaded Toolkit it hung at the splash screen. To make a long story short (it took a week to figure out) I found that Pt 10.5.7 works perfectly on my new Mac Book Pro. The problem is that the brightness control is non functional and the OS doesn't recognize the audio card in the computer so there's no onboard audio output although the mbox works fine. 10.5.8 fixes the video and audio problem and ProTools loads but is for all intents and purposes non functional. SO, THIS IS WHAT I DID: I created a dual boot system. I did this assuming that Digi will catch up with the new OS some day soon and everything will be fine. I have one 10.5.7 partition that runs ProTools and the other that runs 10.6 Snow Leopard and all of my other software. You do this by using Boot Camp to create another partition for a Microsoft OS on your boot drive. When it finishes though, you tell Boot Camp you will install the OS later but instead reformat the new partition using Disk Utility (Mac OS Journaled) Then you install 10.5.7 on the new partition and install ProTools on it. You can either buy 10.5.7 on ebay (or from a friend) or have it installed at your nearest Mac reseller that has a repair department. The Apple store will NOT install it as they don't support it anymore. It sounds hard but really isn't. The good thing about doing it this way is that when Digi is up to date with 10.6 then you can install on the original partition and make sure it works. If it doesn't, then just reboot from the 10.5.7 partition. I work on major features in Hollywood and this system works flawlessly for me. I would suggest that once you get the partitions set up the way you like them that you make a disc image of each and store them on another drive in case you have issues.

[ghedgepath]

Oops, I meant to say that OS 10.5.7 worked perfectly with ProTools 8.0.3 on my system

[slinky005]

Well, paying to have an OS installed into a new system is not going to happen for me. I'm breaking the bank as it is not to mention all the extras I need.
I read on some the posts that installing an older OS into the new MBP will not even work. How old is your machine (is it a MBP) ?
Does hardware factor into any of this?

[mamacita]

Skip Bootcamp, why not just partition the drive in Disk Utility in the first place? Thats what I did and it worked fine.

You should be able to install 10.5.8 on any of the new Macs, unless they've updated the firmware to only allow 10.6. I have a new 13" MBP with 10.6.1 and 10.5.8 on it.

[ghedgepath]

My MB Pro is brand new. Got it a week ago.

[slinky005]

Well I guess it's hit and miss according those have posted here.

[flyingfadr]

Yeah, I would stick with Leopard for the music stuff for now... PT8 works well with Leopard, but not friendly with Snow Leopard yet.

[moflo]

It seems that overall most people are experiencing little bugs here and there but for the most part the software runs. Knock on wood, but I've done a lot of work on my pre release software with no major hiccups. I've done all types of work, including Post (Sound Design, Dialogue Editing, Mixing-all running quicktime in PT), Recording/Mixing (plugin extensive) and Music Production (Multi Instrument/plugins)

Get it and start working!!!

Protools 8.0.3pr
Digi 002/Mbox2 mini
Snow Leopard 10.6.1
External Record Drive and Sample Drive (FW 400+800)