[Rebecca Barnes]

Ben,

Thanks for the very thorough review. I’m in Macbook buying mode and still on the fence about moving forward with the 15″ Retina or snagging the Oct 2011 17″.

You do a few comparisons of FCP7 and FCPX on the Retina… My question is, did you have these two installed simultaneously? If so, what was the installation procedure? I’m currently editing in FCP6/Studio 2 on a G5, but for the next transitional phase I’d like a machine that can handle both FCP7 and FCPX. I’ve already bought Studio 3 and made images of the disks (though I can’t install it on the G5) so that part won’t be hard, but for FCPX, did you get it from the App Store? Before or after installing Studio 3? Does it have to be on a different partition than Studio 3? Is Compressor functional for both?

Sorry for the barrage of questions, but it’s hard to get a straight answer about this, and you sound like you know your stuff.

Thanks,
Becky