MacBook Pro onstage with live band...

Hi all, just a quick query...
My band use a lot of sampled/synthesised sounds in our recordings, and we want to transfer that to our live experience. Now, the easiest and most affordable way would be for me to use the Logic Pro session and simply trigger the sounds at the right time in our songs, which is great in theory, however...
Some laptops come with a built in sensor to detect movement and to safely stop the hard disk's read/write capability if the vibrations are at excessive levels (for things like if your laptop is dropped etc). This normally only comes in higher end Windows based laptops, but since MacBook's are built sturdily, I'd assume that there is some sort of functionality like this in my MBP. This is a great safety feature, but with a live band stomping around onstage I wouldnt want this kind of functionality to kick in and hinder our set.
My question is this -
Do any of you have experience using MBP's onstage?
Does anyone know if they have this functionality?
If so, is there a safe way of disabling it for a live set?

This was one of the possibilities I'd considered, however SSD's are still quite expensive on the £/$ per GB scale... And we'd need a lot of space to keep all of our samples and synths loaded onto one SSD, so the minimum I'd be looking at would be 64GB, but as it's also my personal computer I'd need more room still... Well, you can see where this is going. For the money I'd shell out for an SSD of the size we need, It'd probably be cheaper to buy a small midi rig with some sample pads!
Do you happen to know anything about this supposed vibration/motion detection technology in relation to MBP's?

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