Mac book with Video Collection Pro

[Aanarav Sareen]

Is there a reason you want a Mac portable? Other than AE, Photoshop and Illustrator, none of the other programs work on the Mac. Also, as of this point, since Apple moved to the newer chips, Photoshop, Illustrator and AE won’t work either (atleast, not very well).

Aanarav Sareen
premiere@asvideoproductions.com

[Steven L. gotz]

That’s disappointing. I was thinking of buying one so I could run both the Mac and the PC versions on the same machine if I wanted to edit books or tutorials that covered both.

So things don’t work right? Maybe when they get the beta version released?

Steven
https://www.stevengotz.com

[Ron Moody]

Perhaps I wasn’t as clear as I thought I was. The reviewer said it worked and it worked well. The glitches were minor and related to driver issues. For example, I think bluetooth didn’t work under XP, stuff like that, but the display and audio; all the important stuff worked just fine.

I was wondering if anyone had seen a review of how the 2gig dual core performed in contrast with my plain vanilla 3.2gig P4. It slows so much when running both Premiere and AFX: toggling back and forth. I assume each app might get a full core’s attention. Is that how it would work out in real life?

ron

[Ron Moody]

Perhaps I wasn’t clear. The review I read included performance of the mac laptop running XP as well as OSX. It ran XP quickly; in fact, one review said that the macs ran xp faster than any other laptop, even those intended for the Microsoft OS. It sure impressed me.

Sorry for the confusion.

P.S. I don’t present myself as an expert, I’m just echoing some thing’s I’ve come across that caught my interest.

ron

[Aanarav Sareen]

Ron,
You were clear. Maybe, I confused myself 🙂 Anyway, my point was, why do you need a Mac notebook? The Video Collection works fine on the Mac, provided you have Bootcamp. But, what are you going to do with the other “half” of your computer which has the Mac OS? Isn’t that going to be a waste?

I have a core-duo Intel laptop (Windows) and it works great. AE, Premiere Pro, Encore DVD, Photoshop and the the whole package works great. One of our forum leaders did a review of the Dell Precision M90, if you are interested on reading on that…

Aanarav Sareen
premiere@asvideoproductions.com

[Ron Moody]

Alright! The truth comes out!

I hate XP. I mean real, honest disgust with a fair amount of hopelessness mingled in on the side. I’ve been on the boat since DOS and using it for video since the Fast Video Machine made editing possible on underpowered PC’s.

For a while there, I had hope with Win2K which was both more powerful and more stable than the OS that preceeded it, but then XP came along and continued the trend of slower and more resource intensive OS that had been the case in every version except win2k from Dos forward.

The Mac on the other hand is based on Mach or BSD, is stable, fast, and beautiful as well. I would love to move to it completely, but have this set of software (Production Studio Pro) that cost me more than the laptop will.

If I can have the wonderful functionality of the Mac OS, along with the ability to use XP when I edit, or at least until OSX native Adobe apps are released, I’ll be a happy camper.

There, I’ve said it.
ron

[Agent2a03]

I’m running AE 7 +Pshop on a 17″ Macbook Pro on the XP side…I tried the PPro 2 demo and it worked fine… I also use a few 3d apps also on the XP side… Performance is great and its as stable as XP is gonna be… It only takes about 60 seconds to switch OS’s and if you use MAcdrive you can read and write to the OS X partition from the XP side… you can also read the XP partition from the OS X side with no additional software… I do all my general purpose computing + FCP + web stuff on the OS X side and I do compositing + 3d on the XP side it works out really great… The only issues I’ve run into are… You can’t route audio to the headphone port under XP, and there is no easy way to right click with the trackpad under XP so the use of a mouse is a must… I don’t have any bluetooth devices so I dont know if that works or not… I push my systems pretty hard and I haven’t run into any major issues under XP on my MAcbook Pro… it really is like having 2 systems in one…Also if you use MAcdrive 6.12 you can read/write to Mac formatted firewire/Usb external drives if you need to access large files from both OS’s….

[Gene Colburn — email address bounces notices]

Interesting thread. I was actually hoping Apple, or god forbid… Microsoft… would release a version of OSX that would run on my dual opteron systems. Then I would be happy.

[George Loch]

Ron,

I have a 15″ MBP and have dual-booted with WinXP. It is absolutely fine. In WinXP, all the Adobe apps just sail along as does many others. I personally prefer OS X myself but have been a multi-platform guy for while and this was a real boon for me. When Adobe finally arrives with the UB versions of CS then I will be in Windows very little. I am also a Maya user but I have a dedicated Windows box for that.

The ONLY complaint I have on the windows side is the keyboard config on the MBP. There is NO delete key as the delete acts like ‘backspace’. I got around it by installing a utility that let’s me use the ‘fn’ modifier to get access to keys that I need like delete, ‘right-click’ and it also enabled the eject button. So, working in Photoshop can be a little different with key commands but other than that I have no troubles and recommend it if you want to go OS X yet still keep a foot in the Windows camp.

-gl