Guess the MacBook Pro can run Final Cut Studio okay

[Mark Conrad]

Think I answered my own questions about whether a MacBook Pro
is "up to" the task of running Final Cut Studio.

With some Googling, I was able to find the site below, which is very
optimistic about the ability of the MacBook to handle FCS.

<http://creativemac.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=4371
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Mark-

[Bream Rockmetteller]

I use Final Cut Studio all the time on both a MacBook Pro and an iMac,
both old CoreDuo machines. It runs and is usable on both machines but
real time previews rarely work, and both rendering and export are
rather slow. It would also be nice to have about three times more disk
space, but the FireWire 800 port on the MBP works nicely with a LaCie
Quadra drive.
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Bream Rockmetteller
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[Mark Conrad]

In article <2008060112020316807-breamdotrockmettellerat@macdotcom>,
Bream Rockmetteller <bream-dot.roc...@mac-dot.com> wrote:

> I use Final Cut Studio all the time on both a MacBook Pro and an iMac,
> both old CoreDuo machines. It runs and is usable on both machines but
> real time previews rarely work, and both rendering and export are
> rather slow. It would also be nice to have about three times more disk
> space, but the FireWire 800 port on the MBP works nicely with a LaCie
> Quadra drive.

Thanks, I suspected that FCS would suffer a bit when running on
a MacBook Pro, however it is nice to know that it is mainly usable
on those battery operated Macs.

I have a somewhat older MacBook Pro like you do, I belive it is
the so-called "Santa Rosa" model, about a year old now.

It has a 160GB internal drive, which I suspect will be the main
speed bottleneck. Has 4GB of ram and a 2.4 GHz CPU.

I might try to install FCS on a 800 Mb/sec external drive, do not know
whether that will work, however.

Final home for FCS will be on my desktop Mac Pro, whenever I get
the time to get that Mac running and configured.

Thanks again for the info,

Mark-