Vinyl records to MacBook Pro?

I have a good turntable, a MacBook Pro and a bunch of vinyl records that I want to digitize. Could anyone please tell me what I need between the Turntable and the MacBook Pro?
I'm sure it's been covered here before and I'm sorry for repeating the question, but I couldn't find the answer buried in all the posts! I searched six ways to Sunday and didn't find what I need. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!

If your turntable doesn't have an inbuilt preamp, you need something that will take your turntable output, amp it and apply the RIAA eq curve. Then this output goes in to your Mac (you'll need some adapter cables) or your interface. Some interfaces already have an input for this (Inspire, for example) and so does the Mackie Big Knob.
Something cheap like this will do:
http://www.zzounds.com/item--ARTDJPREII
although there are more expensive ones out there.
Finally, check out ClickRepair. Great software for removing clicks and thumps.
http://wwwmaths.anu.edu.au/~briand/sound/

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