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Black Macbook for Video trip
Hi folks,
I’m headed on a trip to Poland and Israel in April and I’ll be filming tons of footage while I’m there on a panasonic hvx200 HD camera. I’ll need to have a laptop while I’m there to do quick edits every night of what I’ve shot.
I was offered to buy a black macbook, 2.0 core duo with 2gb memory for $400. Do you think I’ll be ok using final cut pro on that machine? I won’t be doing anything too complex while I’m there… just basic capturing and editing.
Thanks!
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5 Replies
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Hi Ari,
A friend of mine has a blackbook 2.0 w/ 4GB that runs FCP quite smoothly. For basic capturing and editing you should be fine.
Shalom,
Sam Ellens
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That is really great to hear… I’ll think I’ll be going through with it then.
Thanks!
Ari -
you will bring external drive with to hold the media right? as a back up, consider installing FCP on that drive as well then if you have any problems w/the app on the mac you can boot from the external drive (via FW) and still be in business.
Moto Guzzi rider
dog lover w/wife, Ex & 3 kids -
Yup, I am bringing an external drive.
That’s a great suggestion about booting from the external drive. Does that mean I’ll have to install all my software on the external drive including the OS?Thanks,
Ari -
if there was a problem w/FC on the laptop booting from the external will run the program.. if the OS on the laptop is messed up then you could not run the FC app.. so, for emergencies I would load the OS to the external drive too.. I have booted Tiger in the past from an external thru firewire (don’t think it would boot by USB..) also, I think it must be the same source disc as the macbook, something about root level protection that won’t let you open your OS from a different mac? I’m pretty hazy on that.. If I were going on an extended trip I’d want all the redundancy I could get.
Moto Guzzi rider
dog lover w/wife, Ex & 3 kids
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