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Macbookpro of Quad G5? – Any
I’m about to quit the buggy pc world (Xpress Pro, Premiere) and buy a new hardware for a NLE station.
Final Cut would be my main editing app (but I’ll keep my Xpress Pro installed, or maybe the new soft only Media Composer). My LLC is currently editing everything from music videos and industrial to features. We work mainly in DV and HDV (jvc hd100, so I’m seduced by the long promised 720 24p), but ocasionally word with SD (digibeta and DVCPRO50).
Now my options are, apart from a marvellous cinema display and a Lacie FW800 raid, between a 17 inch macbook pro and a Quad g5. It is my understanding that the g5 would provide a higher perfomance, but I’m a bit afraid of its lifetime (with the upcoming conroe), so my main question is, would the macbookpro be able to handle both sd and hdv, and how well compared to the g5?. Any stability problems, for those of you with the universal FCP5.1?. Would be interested in hearing your opinions with this ‘decision’.
Cheers!
Jose
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4 Replies
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I have a dual 2 gig G5. The MacBook Pro I saw running Studio and Shake with DVCPRO100 media worked really great, so DV and HDV should be a breeze for it. AND is Faster than my dual 2 gig G5. It’s incredible because it’s a laptop, 17″ but transportable. Arguably one of the fastest in the world. 5.1 rocks on it. Apps open really fast too on it. remarkable. The Quad G5 is faster than the MacBook though, and it’s more expandable. What you want to do will work fine on the laptop, but past that a ton right now probably not.
Jerry
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Thanks for your answer!. I think I’ll go for the Macbook pro and perhaps got a quad as soon as the price drop with the upcoming conroes.
Any ideas if the FW400 controller is shared with the usb/fw800?. I would like to use an external FW800 as a raid, and hope to get a IO ld (if compatible with universal), and I think a shared controller could hurt perfomance seriously, just like with th imac g5.
Cheers,
Jose
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I had a MacBook Pro for several weeks. Like Jerry says, it runs ALL the Pro apps like a champ and it is faster than my Two Year, Nine month old Dual G5. (When I was bored I installed XP on the MacBook Pro and ran 3D Max. Yep, it ran very well.) Hated to give that laptop back.
So. . . . I will be ordering a MacBook Pro soon to replace my four year old TiBook. If the dual core Intel for MacBooks are fast, the Quad Tower will blaze, thus I’ll WAIT to replace the G5 when the Quad Intel is released. That could be sooner than later the way Apple is cooking these days. (Of course if I had some very high end projects this summer that required more processing speed than a Dual 2G G5, I would order a Quad today simply because of profit.)
So. . . . If down the road you need a lot of raw processing power for rendering, wait. If you need something now to impress your friends and to get fat checks from clients, The MacBook Pro 17 is the ticket.
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If you need portable, buy the Macbook.
If you need expansion capabilities but can’t wait, buy the G5 desktop.
If you need expansion but can wait, wait for the new desktop Intel units. By merely extrapolating from the Macbook’s performance, the new Intels are going to be remarkable machines.
Anyone stuck with a less-than-2-year-old G5 is going to be very upset when these new machines ship!bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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