Buy leopard or wait for snow leopard please read PLEASE!

[DoFoT9]

1. Well, if it's Firewire 400, it's technically slower than USB, so it'll be at Firewire speed. It it's a firewire 800 port, it'll run at USB 2.0 speed. Of course, those are theoretical speeds, transfers are generally much slower.



2. They're saying that although it *can* support 16 TB of ram, realistically, the manufacturers of the north bridge (the motherboard chip that interacts with the memory) limit it to maybe 8 GB.

1. technically yes, its slower. in real world though firewire is much faster and more reliable.

2. yes thats what i hate, they should let the maximum be whatever so that in 10 years time if our laptops are still working we can have that 512GB of RAM 🙂

😱 seriously, anyone out there tried this ??

fairly sure I was reading about something similar and general consensus was it doesn't work 🙁 can't remember where though , sorry.
I must get more sleep.

dang that sucks. i was just googling and came across it and was hoping that it COULD work...

 

[marbles]

dang that sucks. i was just googling and came across it and was hoping that it COULD work...

maybe it does ? , I don't know, fairly certain I was reading it didn't but again , I might be wrong, be superb if it did.


I'm surprised no one has made a solution for Mac considering , a lot of money could be made selling a small device t macbook owners who would like to use firewire

 

[sk8now123]

Well, if it's Firewire 400, it's technically slower than USB, so it'll be at Firewire speed. It it's a firewire 800 port, it'll run at USB 2.0 speed. Of course, those are theoretical speeds, transfers are generally much slower.



They're saying that although it *can* support 16 TB of ram, realistically, the manufacturers of the north bridge (the motherboard chip that interacts with the memory) limit it to maybe 8 GB.

Alright, I've chosen the Macbook 2.0 ghz aluminum and 4gb ram and 250 gb hard drive, now can you guys tell me how I can get my dad to get me it for my bday on may 1st. Listen, I got this ibook g4 4 years ago for my bday and I said I needed it for school. SHould I say all the problems there are with this one or how slow it is when I edit my skate videos or something else. My dad has enough money to get it for me. If all comes to no should I skip my bday and tell my dad I wont get anything if I can get it for christmas, just help please

 

[marbles]

Alright, I've chosen the Macbook 2.0 ghz aluminum and 4gb ram and 250 gb hard drive, now can you guys tell me how I can get my dad to get me it for my bday on may 1st. Listen, I got this ibook g4 4 years ago for my bday and I said I needed it for school. SHould I say all the problems there are with this one or how slow it is when I edit my skate videos or something else. My dad has enough money to get it for me. If all comes to no should I skip my bday and tell my dad I wont get anything if I can get it for christmas, just help please

GGrrr didnt realize this was the case . unsubbed.

 

[Muncher]

1. technically yes, its slower. in real world though firewire is much faster and more reliable.

2. yes thats what i hate, they should let the maximum be whatever so that in 10 years time if our laptops are still working we can have that 512GB of RAM 🙂

Yeah, USB 2.0 has a higher burst speed, but in longer transfers, Firewire 400 is the best choice.

The only problem is that the new memory will be incompatible and much much too fast for the old controllers. I agree with you though, no new computers now should have a limit of anything under 8 GB if not 16 GB.

Alright, I've chosen the Macbook 2.0 ghz aluminum and 4gb ram and 250 gb hard drive, now can you guys tell me how I can get my dad to get me it for my bday on may 1st. Listen, I got this ibook g4 4 years ago for my bday and I said I needed it for school. SHould I say all the problems there are with this one or how slow it is when I edit my skate videos or something else. My dad has enough money to get it for me. If all comes to no should I skip my bday and tell my dad I wont get anything if I can get it for christmas, just help please

Tell him the truth. Does the iBook give you problems?

Also, don't order RAM from apple. Get standard DDR3 ram from newegg.com, it's much cheaper.

 

[DoFoT9]

Yeah, USB 2.0 has a higher burst speed, but in longer transfers, Firewire 400 is the best choice.

The only problem is that the new memory will be incompatible and much much too fast for the old controllers. I agree with you though, no new computers now should have a limit of anything under 8 GB if not 16 GB.


lalalala

USB2.0 isnt better at anything, apart from maybe being the more "common" interface. dont talk it up so much geez 😛 🙄

yea good point, the memory will be expensive too! i see RAM as one of the "key" parts to a computer, my CD is maxed out on 2GB.. i run multiple VM's (very slowly!), edit HD vids and do quite a lot of intense stuff. if i had say 4gb or even 8gb of RAM it would do A LOT better at those tasks. if only the controller supported it 😡 the memory is quite cheap too i guess.

 

[sk8now123]

Still need help!

Alright, I've chosen the Macbook 2.0 ghz aluminum and 4gb ram and 250 gb hard drive, now can you guys tell me how I can get my dad to get me it for my bday on may 1st. Listen, I got this ibook g4 4 years ago for my bday and I said I needed it for school. SHould I say all the problems there are with this one or how slow it is when I edit my skate videos or something else. My dad has enough money to get it for me. If all comes to no should I skip my bday and tell my dad I wont get anything if I can get it for christmas, just help please. And yes it does give me problems

 

[lordthistle]

Alright, I've chosen the Macbook 2.0 ghz aluminum and 4gb ram and 250 gb hard drive, now can you guys tell me how I can get my dad to get me it for my bday on may 1st. [...]

Worst scenario: send a letter to Santa Claus and wait till next Christmas.

thistle

 

[hacksaw-C87]

Ask him. If he says no, looks like tough luck and you'll have to live with it. If your Birthday is in May then I'd wait for S. Leopard. But if you're desperately wanting it then go for it.

 

[sk8now123]

I can't really live with it cause im not like a fake filmer, I actually film about 15 skate clips a day and put them on my scratch disk on fce every night and I took lessons on fce and filming so I desperatly need it

 

[hacksaw-C87]

I don't doubt that you need it badly, but if Dad says no then it's either cough up some doh yourself or seek other solutions. If you need it that badly then I'm sure Dad will consent.

 

[sk8now123]

thank you

this is now closed, it'll all work out, thanks a lot!

 

[Muncher]

USB2.0 isnt better at anything, apart from maybe being the more "common" interface. dont talk it up so much geez 😛 🙄

yea good point, the memory will be expensive too! i see RAM as one of the "key" parts to a computer, my CD is maxed out on 2GB.. i run multiple VM's (very slowly!), edit HD vids and do quite a lot of intense stuff. if i had say 4gb or even 8gb of RAM it would do A LOT better at those tasks. if only the controller supported it 😡 the memory is quite cheap too i guess.

Common = less expensive 😀.

If only more of the parts were swappable (i.e. swappable north + south bridge). Only for the hardcore, but it would still be interesting. But it's a moot point, because there won't BE north and south bridges in a few years, with both intel and AMD moving towards more integrated/compact chips.

 

[sickmacdoc]

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well i found THIS! its exactly what ive been looking for.. but apparently the support is limited to XP only, i dont know if thats still the truth though it might work!!

It apparently is true. There is another company releasing something very similar I saw the other night, but it makes a clear point that it is only XP as well- and they note they haven't even gotten it to work with Vista yet and specifically say no Macs. 🙁

This one (and they are sold out of the NTSC version too) at $119 and the other new one at $199 are pretty darn high for a one trick pony-- as both of them say the only thing they can do is transfer DV footage in XP. That's it.😱

 

[DoFoT9]

Common = less expensive 😀.

If only more of the parts were swappable (i.e. swappable north + south bridge). Only for the hardcore, but it would still be interesting. But it's a moot point, because there won't BE north and south bridges in a few years, with both intel and AMD moving towards more integrated/compact chips.

common = PC's, less common = macs 🙂 i like being the minority, thus why i can relate to firewire.. it talks to me about it sometimes 😛

It apparently is true. There is another company releasing something very similar I saw the other night, but it makes a clear point that it is only XP as well- and they note they haven't even gotten it to work with Vista yet and specifically say no Macs. 🙁

This one (and they are sold out of the NTSC version too) at $119 and the other new one at $199 are pretty darn high for a one trick pony-- as both of them say the only thing they can do is transfer DV footage in XP. That's it.😱

that is really dissapointing that they arent smart enough to see the real market for the device. if they turned all of their attention to getting it to work for Macs and ACTUALLY work (e.g. firewire HD's are recognised as devices, cam corders work etc) then they would make millions. the amount of people wanting it because of the new MacBooks is rediculous!!

 

[ChrisA]

Standard advice applies: "If you need a computer now, buy a computer now. If you don't need a computer then don't buy one"

Waiting never works because always there is something new almost ready. But more than that the increments are very small. Snow Leopard will not do much more than Leopard and may even be buggy at first. If you use your computer for a business (editing) then you really should wait a few months after any new product comes out and then use it for a while in the office before you retire your current system.

 

[lostngone]

Alright, I edit high def skate videos and my 512 mb ram 10gb hard drive isn't cutting it. I use final cut express and it doesn't meet the minimum system requirements for it. Buying more ram is useless because I can only add another gig. I have an external hard drive 1tb in which I store all my clips and projects. So my birthday is may 1st and I definitely need a new apple computer and so I need to know wether I should just buy leopard or wait for snow leopard. I think they are making new computers when snow leopard comes out to support 16 tb of ram and other features in which I will buy. So the macbooks will be a thing of the past when I get it. SHould I wait until christmas to get snow leopard, in which i'm sure a new line of laptops will come out, or get a macbook now.

Buy more ram! If you are using FCE with only 512 Megs of ram you are going to kill the system with swap performance alone...

Sure the iBook G4 isn't a speed demon but adding a Gig of ram would help performance considerably, you can pick up a gig stick for that iBook for around $40.