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Notebook for Graphics work
My endless search for the perfect graphics/video editing notebook has left me fussing over details and specs that may be unimportant in the long term.
Bottom line, I want something powerful, future ready, and portable enough to not be lugging around an 8 pound beast. Oh yeah, matte screen is important!
I have been thinking of buying a new MacBook Pro, but am having difficulty justifying the cost to a better graphics card (and yes I am keeping it 15″ for portablity), not to mention that CS3 is not yet configured to support openGL for Macs.
Can anyone tell me if having a graphics card with 128meg vs. 256meg of ram will make my After Effects life any easier? Is the difference worth $500? Any other notebooks worth looking into?
Thanks!
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3 Replies
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The graphics card alone is not worth the price jump on the Macbook Pros, but what DOES make it worthwhile is that Final Cut Studio 2 will not work on standard Macbooks due to the lower-end graphics card. If future-proofing is your goal, you should go with the Pro. Whatever you choose, I would strongly recommend going with one of the Macbooks. Being able to install XP via bootcamp makes it a dual-purpose machine that can, in effect, run any app you happen to need. They are also speedy, lightweight and well built.
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Thanks for the reply. Yes, I would definitely go with the MacBook Pro, and from stories I am hearing, openGL may not be that much of an important factor for AE.
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OpenGL really hasn’t been very well implemented in After Effects as of yet. It can be pretty nice for certain situations, but overall I think there are more important factors to consider, like having as much RAM as possible.
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