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Topic: Latest Macbook PRO (April 2010), works great with Win7 very low DPC

Hi people,

I was very amazed to hear from a friend that the new Macbook pro 17" performed great with Bootcamped Win7 and MADIface.
Lowest DPC latency numbers he'd ever seen. And all this without tweaking a single thing.
No stop of Apple custom software that used to hog everything.
No disable of Bluetooth, WLAN etc.

Amazing.

I et my new 17" in a few days, will test and report back, but it seems that Apple finally have brought out a range that works great for low latency audio both in OSX and Win7.


Cool?

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Re: Latest Macbook PRO (April 2010), works great with Win7 very low DPC

Hi,

If you can try with FF 800/400 as well yes very cool
and if firewire chip still is LSI/Agere, thanks !

regards S-EH

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Re: Latest Macbook PRO (April 2010), works great with Win7 very low DPC

?of course
Will test my own FF400 of course.
And report on firewire chipset.

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Re: Latest Macbook PRO (April 2010), works great with Win7 very low DPC

S-E Hansson wrote:

Hi,

If you can try with FF 800/400 as well yes very cool
and if firewire chip still is LSI/Agere, thanks !

regards S-EH

Just got my new Macbook PRO.
Just finished copying over the SSD disk and extra storage.

Firewire is:
Lucent ID 5901 built-in now active, GUID 7c6d62fffeff5c12; max speed s800

So same as last one.

Will test soon.

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Re: Latest Macbook PRO (April 2010), works great with Win7 very low DPC

Can't wait to hear about!  Here impatiently waiting for my own MBP, and not yet decided if going fire- or madi- (face).
Cheers

6 Reply by Esaias (edited by Esaias 2010-04-30 12:45:31)

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Re: Latest Macbook PRO (April 2010), works great with Win7 very low DPC

I'm also eager to hear how it works with the Fireface 400. If it does, I'll buy a new MBP next week smile.

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Re: Latest Macbook PRO (April 2010), works great with Win7 very low DPC

If you say "Madiface" you mean that you can use the ExpressCard Slot with Windows 7? I have been waiting for two weeks now to get any reply from Apple. I asked the simple question whether the ExpressCard slot is usable on Windows Vista/7 now (which it was not with any Unibody model before).

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Hi all,

Just got my MBP 17" 2.66, OSX 10.6.3, and thought that I'd share my experiences:

1. Digiface II: After installing the latest drivers and updating the Cardbus to Firmware #18, the Digiface II is recognised and working perfectly.

2. FF400: seems to be doing a good job too, and works bus powered.

I would personally be very interested in trying out a MADIFace, not only for contributing with another positive report, just if RME would lend me one.... ;-)

Cheers!
gigi

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Re: Latest Macbook PRO (April 2010), works great with Win7 very low DPC

Timur wrote:

If you say "Madiface" you mean that you can use the ExpressCard Slot with Windows 7? I have been waiting for two weeks now to get any reply from Apple. I asked the simple question whether the ExpressCard slot is usable on Windows Vista/7 now (which it was not with any Unibody model before).

Yes!
On the latest 17" MBP Madiface (eXpresscard) works like a dream. Very low DPC out of the box.

Other problems is that it runs a bit hot, because of not optimized drivers yet, so run a fan control.

Back later with more details.

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Re: Latest Macbook PRO (April 2010), works great with Win7 very low DPC

does this heating issue apply to OSX too, or only to Win?

cheers

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Re: Latest Macbook PRO (April 2010), works great with Win7 very low DPC

psvennevig wrote:

On the latest 17" MBP Madiface (eXpresscard) works like a dream. Very low DPC out of the box.

Interesting info, Pal... Thanks. How "latest" is "latest"...?


Regards
Daniel Fuchs
RME

Regards
Daniel Fuchs
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Re: Latest Macbook PRO (April 2010), works great with Win7 very low DPC

RME Support wrote:
psvennevig wrote:

On the latest 17" MBP Madiface (eXpresscard) works like a dream. Very low DPC out of the box.

Interesting info, Pal... Thanks. How "latest" is "latest"...?


Regards
Daniel Fuchs
RME

Latest means latest.
The new Macbook 17" with i7  and i5 CPU.
Intel chipset. Intel HD GPU and Nvidia 330M GPU.

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