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new MBP: 5400 vs 7200 system drive?
hi there – i’m gonna buy a new MBP and surveying opinion on whether to go for the smaller 7200rpm drive option or larger 5400rpm drive, as i don’t have a great sense of how much it affects overall performance.
will be using it with FCP 7.0.3, an external eSata drive, eventually a thunderbolt drive, with primarily ProRes 422 1920×1080 and XDcam footage.
any advice will be appreciated!
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If you’ll edit off the OS drive ever at all, 7200rpm would be preferred.
Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta LLC -
If it’s a new MBP, won’t it have Lion on it? If so does FCP 7 run on Lion?
-Grant Gomm
http://www.blacklionproductions.com -
re: lion / fcp 7 – there seems to be some debate on that. couldn’t i downgrade it to 10.6.8 or have they made the new machines incompatibile with snow leopard?!
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7200 RPM if you think you’re going to edit.
FCP7 works on Lion.
Best,
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