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MC 5.5 on a laptop…
So I’ve already purchased MC 5.5 software while on sale. My decision is now what computer. Want to be portable this time so I’m thinking of a MacBook Air with thunderbolt and thunderbolt drive.
(I keep hearing advice to avoid the MacBook Pro line for now)
Another combo would be a PC Laptop with USB3. Either unit I would want to add a Matrox Mini I/O.
Any advice, experience notes, etc… would be certainly appreciated.
ThanksJohn Watts
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Well, right now I have it running on my 2004 MacBook Pro just fine. And Apple just updated the MacBook Pro line so they are fresh and new. And will run MC5.5 just fine. Air…don’t think that is supported right now. But the new MBP have Thunderbolt. And the 17″ model has the Express34 slot. Oh, and it will work with USB drives. Unlike FCP that doesn’t.
And FYI, the Matrox MXO2 Mini is OUTPUT ONLY at this time. No input. Only third part card that does IO is the AJA IO Express. But only the Mini currently has a way to connect via Thunderbolt. The IO Express is Express34 slot and PCIe only.
CURRENTLY. MC6 is due out soon, and has additional third party hardware support promised. And you can upgrade to that version cheaply.
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Avid has a MacBook Air as a qualified machine now. Just curious as to whether it has the necessary “guts” to work well.
Thanks for letting me know about the limitation on Matrox Mini…will have to rethink that because there will be some need for tape capture, although most will be tapeless.
I just keep reading more and more doom about the MacBook Pro’s, even with the anticipated update. It seems they’re keeping old technology alive, if I were to believe all that I read?John Watts
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Air is supported, but not with MXO2 Mini, since the mini needs and Express34 slot. I think only the 15/17″ MBP’s have that. My 2009 MBP 17″ 3.06GHz ran MC 5.0 with MXO2 Mini more than fine on a longform project I used it on, when needing to do final tweaks and music editing on location, last year.
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I don’t know what kind of bad things you are hearing about MacBook Pro, but personally, I’m not particularly interested in doing anything more than a loose selects reel on a monitor smaller than 17″. 15″ in a pinch. What exactly are you hearing that makes a MacBook Pro unappealing to you?
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I can’t say about a PC laptop (I used to have Avid running on a Dell laptop, but it was a few versions ago), but I’ve got Avid 5.5 running in a Macbook Pro 17 and it’s fine. I see Aja have brought out a new Io XT with thunderbolt (although I haven’t touched one yet) which might make all the difference…
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Ran/running Media Composer 5.5 on my 2008 Macbook Pro, and my Early 2011 macbook pro i7. Runs very well on both.
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