What programs will the macbook be able to handle........

yellowmunky said:

Hi,

When running either OSX or Windows XP via bootcamp what sort of programs will the macbook be able to handle well and due to its limitations not be able to handle well?

What (intensive) programs have current users been able to run well? What hasn't worked too well?

Video? Sound? Graphics? Number Crunching? 3D? etc.......

My thinking is to get a macbook now and then get an updated powermac or imac later on in the year once they have been updated.

Thanks,

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Video. Well I have Final Cut Studio 5.1 installed and EVERYTHING (Yes I thought motion 2 would be out of the question - but runs well if you drop preview resolution down) works very well on it.

Sound, I have ProTools LE 7.1.1 Universal on my macbook too and it handles it great.

Only thing I will suggest is that with both those programmes you use an external HD 7200rpm drive to capture your video/audio.

I also installed all the extra FC5.1 media (templates, loops etc..) to the external drive too simply because they use around 20gb worth of space.

MacRumorUser said:

Video. Well I have Final Cut Studio 5.1 installed and EVERYTHING (Yes I thought motion 2 would be out of the question - but runs well if you drop preview resolution down) works very well on it.

Sound, I have ProTools LE 7.1.1 Universal on my macbook too and it handles it great.

Only thing I will suggest is that with both those programmes you use an external HD 7200rpm drive to capture your video/audio.

I also installed all the extra FC5.1 media (templates, loops etc..) to the external drive too simply because they use around 20gb worth of space.

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I've been playing with FC-Studio on my iBook G4, to see if it could be an occasional mobile capture/editing machine and it seems to be OK so far.

External drive's definately recommended and as much RAM as you can get in there.