Correction : How does Macbook (not PRO) compare to G4/800 Quicksilver

I currently have a G4/800 Quicksilver Powermac with 1Gb of memory, two 7200rpm hard drives, and a ATI RAdeon 7500 GPU with 32Mb of RAM.
I mainly use my computer for amateur photograph editing (Photoshop elements) and video-editing (imovie and Final cut express), and I play the occasional game (older games like wolfenstein, medal of honor, warcraft 3). I've read a lot on this forum about how crappy the GMA in the macbook is, but to give me an idea, how does it compare to my equally crappy ATI radeon 7500 ? Would the macbook be ok to play games like C&C generals, Homeworld 2 and other 3D strategy games ? I like the occasional 3D shooter but I don't need the graphical splendour of Quake 4. And I've read that Final Cut pro has some issues with the macbook but I suppose Final cut express would be ok ?
How would the 2Gh Macbook compare to my G4 Quicksilver speedwise overall (I would max out the ram in the macbook) ?

Well lets compare the two.
Old mac New mac
g4/800 mhz 2ghz intel core duo
1gb ram 1gb (minimum)
7500 gpu 32mb Intel GMA 950 64MB
Not only does the processor in the macbook easily outperform the g4/800, but the new gpu offers double the mb and I belive the processor within it is better aswell.
If you was to max out the ram, to say 2gb this will improve gameplay/editing extremely. The limiting factor here will be the graphics, but Im sure it will do the job.

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Just wondering. I have FCE4 and I'm picking up an adobe CS3 production premium in the near future. I wanted to know if I should even bother installing premier (I'm getting the premium at academic value from my school primarily for after effects and photoshop).

May I suggest you check out the Forums on Adobe's website. Premiere did not work well with 10.5. That was recently fixed with Premiere CS 3.2. However, a number of users reported difficulty installing the update. Encore on a Mac is a disaster. It is Adobe's DVD authoring program. I find it vastly inferior to DVD StudioPro. I've been working with it for the past month, trying to author Blu-ray disks. All I can say is that, I have yet to find a reliable, repeatable workflow with Encore.
Yes Premiere has some advantages over FCP. One example is the internal titler. I have used both programs over the years(Premiere versions 1.0-6.0 on a Mac, FCP 1.5-5.04) and I prefer Final Cut Studio far and away. I use it each and every day and must say that it allows me to make a living.
After Effects, Photoshop and Illustrator are in a class all their own. They are what has kept Adobe in business. Since Adobe bought Macromedia, Flash and Dreamweaver have been a big deal for them. Premiere was always an orphan because it was never a big moneymaker for Adobe, at least on a Mac.
But as others point out the choice is yours.
Here is the link to the Premiere website:
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3bc44dfc/[email protected]@

How does final cut pro x export a file if it has not finished rendering?

How does final cut pro x export a file if it has not finished rendering?
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You don't need to render before export.
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Which VISTA for MacBook (not Pro) 2GB 160GB HD w/Paralells

QUESTION: Can MacBook handle BUSINESS or ULTIMATE VISTA?
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2. Can original Core Duo Macbook with 2GB do so?
Peter
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Question answered.
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How does syncing Notes work with Mountain Lion ?

How does syncing Notes with Mountain Lion?

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Any suggestions for sources for an internal drive memory for my 13" mid 2010 macbook (not pro)? I'm full up with the 250GB

any suggestions for sources for an internal drive memory for my 13" mid 2010 macbook (not pro)? I'm full up with the 250GB.

For a new hard drive try Newegg.com
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SSD drives
http://www.newegg.com/Internal-SSD/SubCategory/ID-636?Order=PRICE Use the list at the left for larger and faster drives.
Or OWC for regular hard drives and SSDs http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/2.5-Notebook/
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Here are video instructions on replacing the hard drive on the Aluminum Unibody
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Here are video instructions on replacing the hard drive on the White Unibody http://eshop.macsales.com/installvideos/macbook_13_09_unibody_hd/
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3ds max on a MacBook (not pro)

Hi,
i’ve been thinking of purchasing a MacBook (not Pro) but i do need 3ds on it I know that I would have to run it through windows but would the MacBook have good enough specs to run it?
Here are the MacBook specs:
* 2.0GHz or 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor
* 4MB shared L2 cache running at full processor speed
* 800MHz frontside bus
* 1GB (two 512MB SO-DIMMs) of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-5300); two SO-DIMM slots support up to 4GB
I would appreciate any advice and especially some from people that have tried or are currently running 3ds on their Mac via Windows…
Thank you people

I've got basically the same spec, only 2GB ram, and run Max on the Windows side.
You shouldn't have a problem, but it TOTALLY depends on the complexity of your scene. If you're trying to do any sort of serious shader work - with either VRay or Mental Rar - you're going to be waiting a long time for your renders.
That's what it really gets down to - render times. The MacBook just doesn't have the horsepower for serious Max use, but should get you by for light work. These days, anything but a dual, dual core - or dual quad core - just isn't acceptable.
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How does Macbook Pro compare to G4/800 Powermac

I currently have a G4/800 Quicksilver Powermac with 1Gb of memory, two 7200rpm hard drives, and a ATI RAdeon 7500 GPU with 32Mb of RAM.
I mainly use my computer for amateur photograph editing (Photoshop elements) and video-editing (imovie and Final cut express), and I play the occasional game (older games like wolfenstein, medal of honor, warcraft 3). I've read a lot on this forum about how crappy the GMA in the macbook is, but to give me an idea, how does it compare to my equally crappy ATI radeon 7500 ? Would the macbook be ok to play games like C&C generals, Homeworld 2 and other 3D strategy games ? I like the occasional 3D shooter but I don't need the graphical splendour of Quake 4. And I've read that Final Cut pro has some issues with the macbook but I suppose Final cut express would be ok ?
How would the 2Gh Macbook compare to my G4 Quicksilver speedwise overall (I would max out the ram in the macbook) ?
G4/800 QS - G3/400 Pismo PB Mac OS X (10.3.9)
G4/800 QS - G3/400 Pismo PB Mac OS X (10.3.9)

I dunno your asking a MBP question in the MacBook
forum.
Try asking in the correct forum.
If I were to hazard a guess, I'd say that the MBP
would be faster then the QS on all accounts even when
running photoshop (which would run under rosetta).
The G4 has faster drives going for it, but overall
the MBP specs are superior to the g4 so my vote is
that yuor going to see an improvement. The only
suggestion I'd give is boost the ram to at least a
gig and your doing a lot of photoshop work,then get
1.5 to 2.0 gig.
Mike
Sorry, I actually meant the Macbook.

How to reset my mid 2008 macbook (not pro)

i have just upgraded to a macbook pro and have already migrated all my data and settings from my old macbook. i want to reset the macbook mid 2008 (not pro) to factory settings so i can give it to my son. i do not have any installation discs as each time i upgraded i did so via download.

The Aluminum Unibody is a Late 2008 not a Mid 2008. the Mid 2008s were the white or black plastic MacBooks.
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How loud is Mac Pro compared to Mac mini G4?

I use a 1,25 Ghz Mac mini G4. At normal use it is almost inaudible. I would like to know, how much louder a Mac Pro is, compared to the mini.

I have both a G4 Mac mini (the "stealth" 1.5GHz model with 64MB VRAM) and the 2.66GHz Mac Pro. Under light load or when in idle the Mac mini makes much less noise than does the Mac Pro. However, the Mac mini fan can ramp up pretty loud when it has been under heavy load for more than a minute or two and in that case the mini is louder than anything I've yet heard from my Mac Pro. If you do little more than browse the internet, write emails, use Word/iWork, run iTunes, and/or watch a few low resolution movies then the Mac mini will be quieter. However, if you encode video, run extensive filters in Photoshop, or play 3D games then the Mac Pro will probably be quieter. This assumes, of course, that you have the passively cooled NVIDIA 7300 card and not one of the higher-end video cards which require their own fan to keep them cool.
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How does, Do Not Import Duplicates, work?

Here's what I found in the user manual. (how about that, I read the manual before someone pointed it out to me)
Aperture checks the filename of the master to determine if an image is a duplicate of one in the library.
Aperture is checking the filename of the Master. So, if you always rename Masters, then this feature wouldn't actually do anything. Correct?
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Does it actually check the entire Library? I wondered since the option is in the section where you are picking the Project to store them in. It makes me think it's only looking in one particular Project.
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What's the best way to utilize this feature?

The user manual says that Aperture checks the filename. I'm not exactly sure what that means.
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I wound up with duplicates. Even though the Version name, File (Master) name and Date fields for both duplicates were different.
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My issue is, since I don't know how it works, I'm not sure how to use it.
My concern is that if it's checked, Aperture hides duplicates, so you have to uncheck it to see what Aperture thinks are duplicates. It would be nice if Aperture showed the images it thought was duplicates, but had them grayed out with no way to check the import box.
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Ok.. im looking for a logical reason to why Boolean does NOT implement Comparable?
Every other wrapper does. ( Integer, Double ect.. ) Just not Boolean..
anyone got any logical guesses as to Why?
( just for context here is how i came upon this.. )
I have a quicksort algorythm that reads in an arraylist and does some manipulation of it. All that is demands is that the objects in the list be comparable. This algorythm has worked beautifully (and fast) for serveral months.. till someone put a Boolean in the list.. doh!
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Using the collections.sort() would mean that each object would have to implement comparable anyways. It also means that these objects would only be sortable by one set of tests. I wish to sort my objects by any of their properties. Hence now my properties must implement comparable. ( given that this app usings mostly int, double and String its not a big deal) What surprised me was the Double did not implement comparable where all other wrappers did.. thats it..
mostly i was just currious as to if there was a larger reason to why it was not implemented other than we just could not decided which should be valued higher :)
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How does Macbook compare to ibook?

Hi--
I currently have an ibook G4 and love it; however, I am running out of memory (I have an 80GB HD but a lot of video files) and would like a second Mac anyway since my husband seems to take over my ibook every time I walk out of the room. And I am tempted by the promotion that ends today, to get a free ipod, since my 30GB video ipod is also out of space (I would upgrade to the 80GB video ipod and just pay the difference).
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Plus points of the Macbook for me are:
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-It is much faster for iMovie...no crashes or video drop outs. Could be that the extra Ram helps here.
- my iBook has Panther so obviously having Tiger is an improvement.
- Magnetic power supply is nice
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Negative points would be:
_ A BIG one for me is that the optical drive on the Macbook is far less reliable and stable than the ibook. It rejects a lot of my cd's that the iBook takes no problem, scratches cd's, cd's get stuck frequently. I often have to load a cd onto the ibook, then copy the file to my Macbook, and I am forever having to try to eject stuck cd's. Some brands of blank cd's/dvd's won't work at all.
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Have you thought about a new iMac...do you need a notebook because if you don't the iMac would be a good choice too? Much bigger hard drive, better graphics card, bigger screen.
Enjoy what ever you end up with.
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Hello,
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Hi
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