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— Laptop advice —
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[Eric Jurgenson] “Whatever. You might want to look at the Macbook Pro. It’s half the computer at twice the price.”
I think it depends on the type of business you are in. When I show up on a live event, my clients want to hear one thing, it’s working now, and it’s going the work for the next 5 days. Because they know it’s going to work, they are willing to pay off those machines in a couple of days.
You pay more for reliability, and that’s the name of the game:-)
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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I need a laptop that will play back AVCHD timelines without dropping frames to support CS5 and my new NXCAM camera (very sweet little camera, by the way). So I need an i7 quad core with a decent graphics card and a 1920×1080 display. You should see the NX5 footage playing full screen on this laptop. Awesome. Besides, this laptop (the Acer 8640) has unsurpassed connectivity for a laptop. But it is rather huge, and the battery lasts an hour max. Still, a killer machine for the price, and I have had zero issues.
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MVP i7, 8 Gigs of RAM, led display 17″, 1920 x 1200, Nvidia 330.
Raid 5, through Sata adapter. Uncompressed 1080p, perfect playback 🙂
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Nice $3,000. laptop. I’ll stick with the better equipped Acer at $1,350.
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Not to mention the 17″ MBP i7 overheating problems…
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But you have to realize that you can sell that same MBp in 3 years for 1500.00
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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I’m sure we could go on for ages, 6 hours of editing on battery, Premiere and Final Cut on one machine, no fan noise on a shoot 🙂
But again, we are comparing 2 very different things, and I am not Mac fanatic, but I can swear by the fact that they have been the most reliable things we’ve ever bought in all the laptops we’ve owned period. And trust, I could open a laptop junkyard over here. Now I probably would never buy a Mac tower if that makes you feel better.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area -
Hey, Vince, this is fun. I would be stunned if you get six hours on a 17″ i7 MBP battery (unless you are talking about a car battery). I would be double stunned if you sold it (or any other computer) three years down the road at half what you paid for it. Especially with OLED screens just around the corner, and solid state memory likely to surpass hard disk technology in that timeframe.
It would be like me buying a three year old MBP instead of my present laptop. No way, no comparison.
Apple does make nice smart phones, though – as long as you are right-handed;>)
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6 hours on OSx, not on Win 7… Nothing agains Win7, but it sucks the life out of any mobile device.
Just sold a Macbook for about 40% of its value, not the best condition it could have been in…
OLED are at least 3 years away from primetime. I have seen demos of the current breed and trust me, stay far away. Burn ins, terrible color balancing and degradation over a short time.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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And I hope people didn’t decide to close their cow subscription because of that long silly thread…
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area
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