MacBook Graphics Card? What can it do?

[Cave Man]

You can only run Final Cut Express on a MacBook, Final Cut Pro requires a dedicated video card (which the MacBook doesn't have)

You cannot run Final Cut Pro on a MacBook because of the lack of dedicated graphics,

Final Cut Pro does not require a dedicated video card and will run on a MacBook just as well as on a MacBook Pro. The apps Color and Motion (and some filters) in FC Studio leverage the gpu, so if you need those then one should consider a MBP. But Final Cut Pro runs just fine on a MacBook.

 

[Jester2k USAF]

Get the best you can afford. If you can afford a MacBook Pro and dont mind the larger size go for that. It will do all the photoshop and video editing you want. You cannot run Final Cut Pro on a MacBook because of the lack of dedicated graphics, but iMovie and Final Cut Express run very well on a MacBook.

Gaming with any kind of 3D graphics is not an option on a MacBook. It isnt that the computer wont play them. Most games dont support Intel graphics and wont load on a system with intel graphics. I owned a MacBook and 3 months later bought a MacBook pro so I could use Final Cut Pro and play some games.

Vista 32 only recognizes 3 gigs of ram. 4 gigs is pointless on Vista unless you are running the 64 bit version......which Boot Camp doesnt support at this time unless you have a Mac Pro.

I'm not sure what games you are thinking of but I can run Team fortress 2 and spore on my macbook with the x3100 chip. Vista 32 bit recognizes 3.25 GB of RAM.

 

[Vulcan]

DON'T BUY RAM FROM APPLE.

Spec? It's an Intel X3100. It's integrated.

It can't run Crysis, if that's what you're after. It can't run Call of Duty 4... It's not a gaming iGPU.

Also, don't buy now. At all.

I can run COD4 and GH3 perfectly fine.

 

[Breegy]

Exactly.

I lol'd.

You should wait regardless. Also you can save a hundred bucks or more by installing the RAM yourself which is very simple.

The video card should run Photoshop, not sure about the other thing.

BUT, you might want to wait a few weeks. Supposedly there are updates by the end of October. Supposedly, being emphasized.

Hopefully, there will be a better graphics card with the update, maybe even a *gasp* dedicated one.

Wait it out like the rest of us.

 

[hogfaninga]

I lol'd.

You should wait regardless. Also you can save a hundred bucks or more by installing the RAM yourself which is very simple.

The video card should run Photoshop, not sure about the other thing.

BUT, you might want to wait a few weeks. Supposedly there are updates by the end of October. Supposedly, being emphasized.

Hopefully, there will be a better graphics card with the update, maybe even a *gasp* dedicated one.

Wait it out like the rest of us.

There won't be a dedicated one. Wishful thinking. It will have a better graphic card.

 

[Breegy]

There won't be a dedicated one. Wishful thinking. It will have a better graphic card.

A person can dream, can't they?

But really though. It should have a dedicated graphics. It's lame that it doesn't, but that brings up a whole "then no one would buy the Pro!" argument, which is true. But lets not go there. It's incredibly screwed up on Apple's part to make the MB suffer. End of story. I think there is a reasonable chance that MBs might see a dedicated graphics card, but then again, there's a really good chance it might not as well.

Let's just keep our fingers crossed, shall we?

 

[hogfaninga]

A person can dream, can't they?

But really though. It should have a dedicated graphics. It's lame that it doesn't, but that brings up a whole "then no one would buy the Pro!" argument, which is true. But lets not go there. It's incredibly screwed up on Apple's part to make the MB suffer. End of story. I think there is a reasonable chance that MBs might see a dedicated graphics card, but then again, there's a really good chance it might not as well.

In the future? Yes. In the upcoming new ones? Nope. There is no chance IMO. I haven't heard anyone even rumor that.

 

[Breegy]

In the future? Yes. In the upcoming new ones? Nope. There is no chance IMO. I haven't heard anyone even rumor that.

That's why I said "really good chance" that we won't see them, but a "reasonable chance" that we might. Odds are against it, but I don't think it should be obliterated as a possibility. Anything is possible.

Just because there haven't been rumors, doesn't mean there isn't a chance we will be surprised as well.

 

[hogfaninga]

That's why I said "really good chance" that we won't see them, but a "reasonable chance" that we might. Odds are against it, but I don't think it should be obliterated as a possibility. Anything is possible.

Just because there haven't been rumors, doesn't mean there isn't a chance we will be surprised as well.

OK LOL

 

[p0Wer]

I can run COD4 and GH3 perfectly fine.

On your macbook?

 

[Breegy]

On your macbook?

Says he/she has a "MacBook 2.1 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 120 GB HD"

With just 1GB of RAM you can run those?

 

[asphyxiafeeling]

my god...

the X3100 is ok for some casual gaming. World of Warcraft, Spore, etc. stuff like CoD4 WILL RUN, but you'll probably need low settings/ will have a "ehh" frame rate.

photo-editing will be fine on the light-mid scale as well.

 

[Eidorian]

I can run COD4 and GH3 perfectly fine.

Set game settings to Very Low.

Wait, what?!

 

[Vulcan]

Says he/she has a "MacBook 2.1 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 120 GB HD"

With just 1GB of RAM you can run those?

Yes, my MacBook is my main machine, and the only other one I have is a 2004 PowerBook, and all of my games will run on it. I'm not a hard core gamer, otherwise I'd have a Pro, but it will do what I need for it to do, and then some.

Of course, you can't set the settings as high as they can possibly go, but they'll run. GH3 requires a Google though.

On a side note, as said 100 times, I hope Apple drops the "Pro" line. Just make the whole series metal, and make the higher end ones have the better specs. I thought we learned from the iBooks that crippling the lower end models to get sales on higher end ones isn't good.

 

[Markov]

I know that the GMA 950 could not run anything requiring video acceleration... but I'm not sure if the X3100's are capable of it. Either way, some games will run meh on a macbook, others not at all. I got Half-Life 2 to work on my old C2D 2 Ghz GMA 950 2 GB and it crashed on me. Don't buy a MacBook for graphically demanding games. Everything else you asked about- the MacBook will work just fine.

Also, gaming on a laptop is fine if you have a mouse attached. Having a keyboard would also make it much better... but I play Half-Life 2 with just a mouse and the rest of the laptop with no problems.

 

[alphaod]

The MB will run all your applications just fine. Just buy your own RAM and install it (instructions in manual).

 

[logicsuggests]

Why bother, just hold off few weeks, the new Photoshop supports GPU's so wait and see if apple release something half decent on the new macbook.