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new MBP 17 for FCS 2
I’m thinking of upgrading from a dual 2.0 G5/3 gigs of ram to the new 17 MBP w/4 gigs of ram, we mostly edit DVC Pro 100 & HDV but would like to get into to a bit of pro res, color, and we also use motion 2 looking forward to Motion 3.
I know the speed bump wasn’t much but I like the mobility factor
Will i hate FCS 2 on the new 17″, the high res display sounds great but concerned about going blind with text, Leopard might help with the resolution vector feature
the DVI is now HDCP, how does this help?
any feedback is much appreciated
Bob
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5 Replies
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It’s a more than a speed bump. The Intel Core 2 is much more powerful than the G5.
You can connect another monitor to it if you don’t like the screen.
HDCP is required for playing copy protected Blu-ray and HD-DVD. The monitor must also be HDCP compliant (Apple Cinema Displays are not BTW). There’s no OSX software for playing back commercial HD discs (Leopard will have it), but if you wanted it right now you could run Windows and use an external BR or HDDVD drive. Without HDCP you could never do this.
Sean
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The new 17″ MBP would certainly run FCS 2 OK… but for about the same money, you could buy a much faster tower… Won’t be as mobile though. Can’t swing both?
Jerry
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If you’re going to run Color, you’ll only be able to run it at 8-bit because it doesn’t fully support the NVIDIA graphics cards. Hopefully they get it supported soon.
-Russ
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Thanks for all the feedback, after reading barefeats.com (great site!) and realizing I have some encoding to do I’m tempted to get an 8-core tower.
The question is are 8 cores stable?
Thanks again
Bob
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[Bob Buruchian] “The question is are 8 cores stable?”
I’ve never heard anything that would make me question their stability. We have a 4-core that works great… most of the time:) (Macs aren’t perfect)
-Russ
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