Please Recommend a Laptop for MC7

[Richard Sanchez]

You can hire me as a consultant for this, otherwise

Avid PC systems

https://avid.force.com/pkb/servlet/fileField?retURL=%2Fpkb%2Farticles%2Fen_US%2FCompatibility%2Fen422411%3FretURL%3D%252Fpkb%252Farticles%252Fen_US%252Fcompatibility%252Fen365919%253Fpopup%253Dtrue%26popup%3Dtrue&entityId=ka1i000000030jxAAA&field=Attachment_1__Body__s

Avid Mac System

https://avid.force.com/pkb/servlet/fileField?retURL=%2Fpkb%2Farticles%2Fen_US%2FCompatibility%2Fen422411%3FretURL%3D%252Fpkb%252Farticles%252Fen_US%252Fcompatibility%252Fen365919%253Fpopup%253Dtrue%26popup%3Dtrue&entityId=ka1i000000030jxAAA&field=Attachment_2__Body__s

All taken from

https://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/Compatibility/en422411?retURL=%2Fpkb%2Farticles%2Fen_US%2Fcompatibility%2Fen365919%3Fpopup%3Dtrue&popup=true

Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Hugh Haynie]

Thanks. Do you have Avid running on a laptop? I want to get a testimonial. We have MC6 is on a MacBook Pro at work, it exceeds Avid’s recommended specs, but is a bit slow.

-H

[Shane Ross]

I am currently running Avid MC 7.0.2 on a 2012 MacBook Pro, non-retina, 15″ machine. It has 16GB of RAM and an SSD hard drive. It is running CIRCLES around my 2008 MacPro. It is fast and reliable.

Shane
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[Pieter Viljoen]

The single best thing you can do for AVID I feel is the SSD. At least for my offline work, it’s the single thing I’ve seen make the most difference. But, I don’t online, I don’t do heavy effects.

[Richard Sanchez]

I run Avid 6.5.3 on a 17″ Macbook Pro, i7 Quad Core 2.3Ghz with 16GB. Like Shane said, it’s a tank, but the two biggest variables will be your boot drive and your media drives. I don’t use an SSD, and it’s just fine. As for storage, I use a Lacie Big5 Thunderbolt and it was great.

Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Hugh Haynie]

Thanks! and have a great Holiday.

-H

[Andrea Williams]

Hi Shane,
I’m sorry, this is a diff. question (I’m new to Creative Cow and don’t know the right way to use it yet), but I saw you have a 2008 MacPro, as do I (there probably aren’t that many of us left!). My Nvidia card just died, and I don’t know what to replace it with (what is the best card that will work on a 5 year old MacPro?). Can you tell me what you have? Or do you know where I can get this info?

thank you!
Andrea

[Shane Ross]

I have a discontinued x285 NVidia. Not sure what to recommend now. Ask on a different question…new post.

Shane
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[Nick Griffin]

I recently had the original video card in my 2008 Octocore Mac tower die. Micro Center still had in stock an ATI Radeon HD 5770 for a very reasonable price. About $200 I believe. Hope this helps.

[Andrea Williams]

Thanks! (esp. since there’s a microcenter right around the corner)
andrea