After reading all of the above and being in the same situation: deciding to purchase a MBP or an MP desktop…I’ve decided best way to go is the MBP laptop. Since I’m on the road a lot and only in edit suite about half the time…I’ll be getting much more bang for my buck…I’d love to buy both but have to feed the wife an kids too:}
When in the studio, I’m going connect the MBP up to all my current “peripherals”…basically, connect my mouse, keyboard, two kogi lcd monitors (still working on how to make this happen), firewire out to sony mindv deck>out to external video monitor, other firewire800 out to my 1Terabyte Lacie drive and audio out to studio speakers…and not even touch the laptop when I’m working in the studio…
doesn’t this sound like a reasonable solution for my situation?
Regards,
Tom Adams – Director/Owner
Reelife Documentary Productions
“cool digital video stuff…not boring or dumb”
info@reelifeproductions.com http://www.reelifeproductions.com
Williamsburg, MA, USA
1.4Ghz DP mirrordoor G4
OS10.4.10, 1GB memory
FCP studio2, 850GB Graid external Firewire Drives
Panasonic DVX100a & EZ1