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Final Cut Pro on a MacBook

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Steve: Man, those new MacBooks are bitchin' just like their older bros.

You: Yeah, I'm down with the magnetic latch and the pimp new keyboard. But what about that ghetto integrated graphics, Steve?

Steve: I'm right there wit-cha, man. Did you know that the MacBook (screw dat "power" namin' {censored}) can run Final Cut Pro?

You: Fo shizzle?

Steve: True. Now you can do pro video editing without forking over a lot of bling.

You: 'ait.

Steve: Peace.


As it turns out, the MacBook can run Final Cut Pro. One site put it to the test to see how it would fare:

When I first got ahold of a MacBook Pro last month, I was shocked by its capability to beat out desktop G5 systems consistently. But I was doubly shocked to see such dramatic results from the newer and lower-end 2.0 GHz MacBook as well. After all, this is not just a notebook competing with a fairly current desktop system, but a consumer-level notebook at that.


Normally you don't even think about running benchmarks of professional-level creative software on a laptop against desktops, and certainly not a laptop targeted toward consumers. But in the vast majority of tests, the MacBook beat out the desktop system and certainly proved itself competition for all but the highest-end (G5 Quad) Mac systems on the market today.


Again, like the MacBook Pro, the 2.0 GHz 13-inch MacBook proves a thoroughly viable machine for users of Final Cut Studio.

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A Nonny Moose
I understand that OS X uses some hardware acceleration on the 2d side, but it doesn't need as much as a 3d game ok? Please don't kid yourself. I have seen old PowerMacs run OS X (mine at home) with 16 and 32 meg cards that are ancient and the interface was smooth. The Macbook graphics chip is plenty for 2d.

 

My old G3 iMac runs Tiger (and runs it pretty darn well), but it doesn't feature the tiny speed boost that Quartz Extreme can give it (it doesn't support Ye Olde Rage cards that came with iMac G3's). In fact, it takes an AGP card that is a GeForce 2 or is more recent than that card to have QE. So those incredibly ancient cards are good at one thing.

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Colonel

My G3 iBook has an ATI Rage and it has QE but not CI. It suprisingly can do some really good 3D things though, like play Halo.

 

Ooh, this is off topic, but I installed iLife 06 on it even though it was made for G4s and up and it runs iPhoto really well considering it's age. :blink:

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sandmanfvrga
at the cost of system ram

 

Yes, but nobody should run a Mac with 512. If you do, then you are shooting yourself in the foot, not Apple. Getting 1 gig or more, you can run apps and have plenty of ram to play with.

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Daganl

is 256 mb a big deal?

 

i have 1 gb piece on my macbook.. i have a 256mb ddr2 lying a around.. should i even bother to put it in? sorry for going a bit off topic..

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aldente

I just have to say this is the put the BIGGEST :D on my face when I read this. After ordering my macbook 2.0 I had sudden and last-minute paranoia :) so I reasearched even more about the macbook vs macbook pro for like 6 hours straight. Once i saw that the video card on the macbook couldnt be upgraded I freaked out. One reason i wanted the mac was to do video editing. Ideas started rushing through my head...what do I do? Do i send it back, do I pay the difference to get a pro? Do I look on ebay?

 

 

But...i have to say this article has really reassured me...thanks. It's nice to know the macbook turns out to be the bang for the buck that I thought it was. With 2GB the thing should fly. YAYYY!!!! :angel:

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