New 13" MacBook

Jarred Land said:
sorry.. had to catch a flight to NY and cant get to it till monday.. i have been playing with it in other programsw and after a hefty memory upgrade i can see it working pretty damn fast.
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This is not clear at all.
Is it fact or conjecture?

And take it easy jaustere we're all in the same boat.

Kind regards
THE HONEST LIAR
 
THE HONEST LIAR said:
This is not clear at all.
Is it fact or conjecture?

And take it easy jaustere we're all in the same boat.

Kind regards
THE HONEST LIAR
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It's perfectly clear:

According to his post, Jarred is busy right now and can't monkey around with FCS on the MacBook until Monday. Not sure what you mean about fact or conjecture!

Also not really sure what you mean about "take it easy"....I think all I did was point you back to the most recent relevant post for your question.
 
THE HONEST LIAR said:
This is not clear at all.
Is it fact or conjecture?

And take it easy jaustere we're all in the same boat.

Kind regards
THE HONEST LIAR
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well i have 60 people that went to the NYC bootcamp this weekend to verify I was there and im not lying to you.. I just landed back in LA this afternoon so chill out dude...
 
Jarred Land said:
well i have 60 people that went to the NYC bootcamp this weekend to verify I was there and im not lying to you.. I just landed back in LA this afternoon so chill out dude...
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WOW... No one suggested that you were lying!
Apple claim that the Macbook cannot support FCS.
But if you and 60 people have run it and it works that's good enough for me.

And l suggest you take your own advice.

Kind regards
THE HONEST LIAR
 
THE HONEST LIAR said:
WOW... No one suggested that you were lying!
Apple claim that the Macbook cannot support FCS.
But if you and 60 people have run it and it works that's good enough for me.

And l suggest you take your own advice.

Kind regards
THE HONEST LIAR
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Dude, it's really not cool to tell the guy who runs these boards to "take his own advice."

You are completely misunderstanding what's going on here...
Bottom line, though, is that Jarred's reference to 60 people has NOTHING to do with his possibly testing out Final Cut on the MacBook.

He will post something if and when he has the time. You have access to the same exact information as everyone else reading these boards, but you need to chill out and you need to read the posts more carefully.
 
jaustere said:
Dude, it's really not cool to tell the guy who runs these boards to "take his own advice."
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Well, if he says l called him a liar, when l clearly did not.
There seems to be some confusion here which l 'm trying to clear up.
If you can't take it you shouldn't dish it out.

Kind regards
THE HONEST LIAR
 
this is your second warning Honest.. i can handle you calling me out but if you start picking on my repected members like jaustere im going to kick you to the curb.
 
ok.. just messed with it.

FCP works very well on the macbook.. and remember mine still has 512mb ram. I was cutting and playing back a DV project with 2 tracks of video and 4 tracks of audio without any issues... its alot quicker than i imagined.. but i think i had a thing in my mind that Macbooks like the old ones were underpowered.. the macbook seems to be just as snappy with FCP as it is on my Macbook pro, which it should cause its the same processor.

Motion... well people keep saying motion wont even install on the macbook.. it installs just fine, you can open it up and it does work.. just is slow as hell. You could still operate with it, but you wont be flying.
 
Jarred,

you have no idea how much you made my day. i just recently ordered one. couldn't afford the macbook pro and needed a laptop like crazy so i "settled." but now i feel crazy happy that it works. i even plan to upgrade the memory, but to here it fcp work with the standard RAM is super cool.

gracias!
 
hey no problem man.. sorry it took so long to get a simple little statement out.

Its kinda a different apple world.. i uses to look at ibooks as underpowered little toys good for checking email and thats about it.. these dual core machines are pretty impressive. The only thing really weak is the video card, and if you get the cheapest model you cant burn DVDs
 
Some more confirmation:

" Mike, Apple confirmed for me that the MacBook won't run Aperture because its graphics card is unsupported. The MacBook Pro does support Aperture.
(I replied to him that after the report on running Final Cut Studio and Motion on an "unsupported" Intel CPU Mini earlier today, I'd not trust that comment unless it was proven. He later wrote)
I apparently was mistaken about Aperture on the MacBook. I found this post on Apple's Aperture Discussions Forum.
-Thomas

"Aperture does run on the new MacBooks, but it is NOT officially supported, due to limitations with the graphics card. This means if you call AppleCare, you'll simply be told that you're running Aperture on an unsupported configuration. It's an "at-your-own-risk" experience.
That being said, Aperture will install and run on a MacBook...at least you're not disallowed from using it. No hacks needed!
And of course, Aperture is fully supported on all MacBook PRO models.
Joe Schorr
Sr. Product Manager, Aperture
Apple"
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http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/index.html#S21166

That's exactly how motion works and because motion is part of studio, studio as well.

edit: Here's another example as well from the same page on xlr8yourmac:

" Just for the fun of it I installed Final Cut Studio 5.1 on my daughters Mac Mini w/1.5GHz Intel Core Solo processor with 512MB RAM. I have only tried FCP and Motion. I started SoundTrack but have not used it.
Final Cut starts and runs fine. I can capture from my VX2100 camera and edit in the timeline (just basic stuff so far).
Motion also works on this machine (it kicks the crap out of my Powerbook 1.25GHz). Ran the update for Final Cut Pro 5.1.1 and it also starts and does basic edits. So far so good on basic stuff.

(I asked if he had exercised Motion on the Core Solo Mini (i.e. rendering, previews, etc.-Mike)
Done one render of a template I edited, changes text and speed of some assets. All templates run fine. Previews are really slow on first pass but run at decent speed after. Will be testing more things this coming weekend.

Have only used the Mini on a LCD minitor at 1280x1024 will be connecting it to a Dell 2005FPW this weekend also and test at 1680 x 1050.
To say it installed and worked is an understatement, I was blown away it worked!!
I wanted to try it to see if I could use a Mini to edit some basic stuff during the summer here in Phoenix. My two 2x-2GHZz G5's create too much heat so if I could have a solution to capture and do basic edits to cut down on the heat indoors.
Next step is to test a Mini Core Duo.
-Richard M. "
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So there is no reason you can't use a macbook for FCP.

So unless you need motion the 1299 model(because of the superdrive unless you use external) macbook and up is A-OK!
 
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ecking said:
So unless you need motion the 1299 model(because of the superdrive unless you use external) macbook and up is A-OK!
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good post ecking.. you can run motion though, its just slow.
 
"Jared, can you try some Hi-Def in FCP (720 and 1080)?"

I was just going to ask the same question!

I have a G5 as my main computer, but I really want a laptop and I don't want to spend the money on a MBP.

MLCinema
 
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