Is a Mac Book Pro adequate for editing?

I have always used a tower but find myself needing additional mobility and I am going to have to choose one vs the other. If a book won't cut it for video editing I am just going to stick with a tower model.
Anyone want to weigh in?

I prefer smaller drives, so I can keep track of all my projects - frequently I have to give the drive over to the after effects/3D guys, so I have three GDrive 500mb 7200rpm mini's
As long as the drive is fast enough (7200) and has FW800, you should be fine.

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I have a issue with my mac book pro. For some reason it won't stay powered on. I can't get past the apple loading logo. The battery is fully charged so it is not the problem. Can anyone tell me what the problem may be and how can i get it resolved?

I have a issue with my mac book pro. For some reason it won't stay powered on. I can't get past the apple loading logo. The battery is fully charged so it is not the problem. Can anyone tell me what the problem may be and how can i get it resolved?

The battery is fully charged so it is not the problem.
What happens when you use the MagSafe?

HT3275 Hi, I have backed up 2 IMACs and one Mac Book Pro but for some reason, the 3rd IMAC come up with this problem: The backup disk image "/Volumes/Data/Anthony's iMac.sparsebundle" could not be accessed (error -1). Why? They computer system is up to da

Hi, I have backed up 2 IMACs and one Mac Book Pro but for some reason, the 3rd IMAC come up with this problem: The backup disk image “/Volumes/Data/Anthony’s iMac.sparsebundle” could not be accessed (error -1). Why? The computer system is up to date and I have had no issue with the other computers, just this one.
Many thanks
Anthony

Try this Discussion...
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18783684#18783684

Is my mac book pro compatiable for OS 10.8.4

is my mac book pro compatiable for OS 10.8.4

Check that your computer is compatible with Mountain Lion.
To check the model number hold down the option/alt key, go to the Apple menu and select System Information.
MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer) model number 3,1 or higher
Your Mac needs:
OS X v10.6.8 or OS X Lion already installed
2 GB or more of memory (More is better - 4 GB minimum seems to be the consensus)
8 GB or more of available space
If your computer isn't compatible, you might be able to upgrade to Lion. Computer Compatibility - Lion
Check to make sure your applications are compatible. PowerPC applications are no longer supported.
Application Compatibility
You can also check which applications are PowerPC by going to the  menu, select About this Mac, click on More info…, then click System Report and select Software/Applications.

I'm trying to buy a Mac Book pro 8GB for my photography and i am only 17. Dose Apple have payment plans?

I'm trying to buy a Mac Book pro 8GB for my photography and i am only 17. Dose Apple have payment plans?

Yes but you have to qualify. Which I'm not sure a 17 year old could do.

Is Mac book pro useful for Video Editing and VFX Work?

Hi Apple Team and Final Cut Pro Team,
I am Video Editor and Motion Graphic Artist. I do a lot of Video Editing work and I have to spend hours sitting in front of my Desktop and this is getting so hectic for me. So I'm thinking of buying a Mac book Pro. But before spending that much bucks, I need to be sure that I'm going for the best option available. below is the configuration I am planning to buy. Kindly suggest me whether this is the best option or not. If not, then Please suggest me your options.
Configuration:-
Screen:- 15.4 Inch retina display
Processor:- 2.5GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor (Turbo Boost up to 3.7GHz) with 6MB shared L3 cache
Ram:- 16GB of 1600MHz DDR3L onboard memory
Graphic Card:- NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M with 2GB of GDDR5 memory and automatic graphics switching

I think a laptop is the best choice of all except when you need more power than you can get in a laptop. Even then "Both" is a great choice. In this instance, this laptop is more powerful than the largest Mac Mini that exists today, a great choice. You can't carry around an iMac or Mac Mini. The Macbook Pro Retina is the best thing out there. Again, except when your needs are greater than it can provide.
Of course a good laptop can cost as much as a Mac Pro. They are fairly cost effective though when matched to a Mac Mini or iMac, although I did get my mini for under a thousand dollars with everything except monitors and external drive.. That Macbook Pro he's got is about $2,000..
All a laptop is is a Mac Mini with it's own screen. So you get the best of both worlds, plus portability. Add monitors and mouse and keyboards and touchpad and external drives when you choose, or simply walk or drive away with your computer in your hand anywhere you go. Try that with a Mini. A great advantage.
Location stuff.. etc etc etc. Talk about chairs and whatnot, I like to lay in bed on my back with my laptop on my belly. Super relaxing. I too, get tired of sitting in that chair all the time. I don't care how good it is. I'm a truck driver. I know all about sitting for hours on end. It becomes torture.
Both computers, that's the ticket.
All of them if we're rich enough.
$10,000 for a million dollars worth of equipment.
The price of a good used car. Fantastic machines.
On a side note, life without eating and drinking and ingesting stimulant drugs is a great life!
Far and away more better than the stimulants ever could provide!!! Far, far superior. In all ways..

Mac book pro restarts for no reason, while i'm working!

here's the story:
mac book pro
2.0ghz dual core intel
2 gigs RAM
10.4.10
the whole thing started when i began playing call of duty 2 on the MBP, as it got much better frame rates than my dual 2.5 G5..... when i play call of duty 2 at least once per day, or a few times a week, the entire computer will just restart, in the middle of playing!
i thought it had to do with overheating, so i bought one of those fans for under the laptop.. but it didn't seem to help... because sometimes it would restart after having only been on for 5 minutes and playing COD2 for 30 seconds... never having a chance to heat up.
so i've continued along like this.. sometimes i can play for 2 hours, sometimes only 10 minutes.. and the whole machine just restarts..
it's one **** of a COD2 bug, so bad that it forces your computer to power off and on again... but i've found not a single person having this problem with COD2...
so, the other day, i'm at a hotel.. sitting in bed, the MBP is on the desk.. some apps are open.. likely Mail and Safari.. but it's not doing much.. and the computer restarts!
then again the other day i was working in Excel and the machine restarted...
i have no idea what's going on.. if it's a hardware problem, or a software problem... i'm going to:
1. reformat the whole machine and reinstall the system (and NOT install bootcamp/XP, although it's probably not hurting anything)
2. run for a while WITHOUT my extra (3rd party) RAM
i use my machine in some very critical situations (live music performance) and cannot have a restart happen in the middle of a concert.
if anyone has any clue as to why this is happening, please let me know. i've seen a few similar stories as this on this forum, but nothing exactly.
thank you

ok Rebis i think this appears to fix your problem , not sure though.. they say just to reinstall mac os X , back up your stuff and format the drive, reinstall the os. In my case , it just reboots by itself , no grey screen , nothing, keeps rebooting and rebooting sometimes. Ran apple hardware test, sry dont remember error # , but it said video controller error.
I hope Taylor posts again to see if his got fixed, cause it seems his problem and mine are really alike if not the same.
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spelling errors lol

Which Mac Book Pro is for me?

Hello, as I learn a bit at a time here by asking one question at a time. I have always been a PC user and I am looking to switch. Last week I bought a $1000 PC with windows 8 and after two days I sent it back as it was to hard to be without a real desktop and tiles are not for me. So I thought if I have to learn something new it should be a Mac.
I think the Air is a bit too small (in size for my needs) and I want a SS drive for speed. I use a computer for e-mail, my eBay business and major photo cropping and editing plus surfing. I do not play any games at all. I like the Apple quality and think that if anyone drops $1000 plus on a computer it should not be made from cheap plastic. I also have a few Windows programs that I need to use and learned that I can set aside a part of the hard drive for windows programs and was told about boot camp. Do I have to buy and install the full windows version for the windows part of the hard drive? Lots of questions and I wish there was an online tutorial to teach me how to do basic things with a Mac.
Lastly how come most Mac book pro's do not come with a CD drive? I saw that I could buy one for $90 or so for an external drive.

On a Core Duo Mac, none. Lion and newer require at least a Core 2 Duo or Xeon CPU.
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Can mac book pro useful for java developer

hi iam a java developer and interested to buy mac book pro.
My question is can i do java projects and programming on mac book pro 13?

mviplav,
yes, you could. Versions of the JDK for OS X can be downloaded from Oracle.

What about my software which is in my old mac book pro like for instance parallels can I transfer this software to a new mak book pro that I want to buy ??

What about my existing software like parallels on my old mac book pro when I want to use that software on a new mac book pro I am ready to buy ???

Your new MacBook Pro won't run PPC programs. For Parallels you need to update to the latest version 7.

Is the mac book pro good for gaming?

Is it good for heavy minecraft work? And which core should I get?
Thanks

Minecraft does not have heavy system requirements, so any of the current models will play minecraft just fine. Either the Core i5 or Core i7 will do for what Minecraft requires, so if you are only interested in Minecraft then I'd go for whatever fits your best price (the 15-inch will ultimately do better than the 13 inch because of the dedicated graphics card). If you are looking to extend beyond Minecraft and do heavy graphics processing in games or otherwise, then go for the Core i7 and higher quality dedicated graphics card.

Mac book Pro i5 or i7 ? Performance difference major or minor ?

Hi folks ,
Hope every one is doing great
I have to purchase a Mac book pro 13 inch . But confusion I am having is between i5 and i7 processor . I ll be using my laptop mainly for surfing , movie watching, and Video editing ( FCP , Adobe premiere pro ) . i7 is expensive than i5 and right now my budget is not permiting me to buy i7 until or unless there it is EXTREMELY important to buy a i7 mac book as there are will be huge performance issue . From what I read I got to know that there wont be huge difference since they both are using dual core processor and there is no option of hyper threading in i7 either . Also there aint any difference of graphics card as they both use the cpu inbuilt intel graphics card. So one thing which I am considering in to buy i5 and then spend some money on expanding RAM which will be cheaper , I suppose .(4GB to 8Gb). Will that be fine?
So just wanted to know from some one who has used i5 mac book pro and ran editing software (or any one who knows about it) . Did you guys face any glitches or are they very minor to be noticeable. I am fine with extra time taken in rendering and exporting , thats not the issue for me . Only issues is that videos shouldnt lag or appear jerky in the timeline because then it will hamper editing experience .
I know Imac in same rate is the best option for editing and nothing can beat that . But I couldnt go for it because of portability issue as I have to travel a lot .
Hope to hear expert comments from you guys.
Cheers !
Anurag

I have been editing with Final Cut for many years, on many different Macs. Currently using Final Cut Express v4 on a 2.66GHZ Core2Duo MacBookPro with 8GB RAM. Ditto on my 3.06GHZ Core2Duo iMac with 8GB RAM. It runs really well on both computers. An i5 based Mac will do even better.
The amount of RAM definitely makes a difference if you are using things like Photoshop, Aperture, Lightroom, iMovie, Final Cut and similar apps. They will run in 4GB RAM but they run a lot better with 8GB RAM or more. If I were configuring a new Mac to run these kinds of programs, 8GB RAM would be my suggested minimum.

Mac Book Pro Restarts automatically

My mac book pro hangs for few seconds and then restarts. This problem has started after I have upgraded to OS X Yosemite. Please fix this.

If you can't start up and log in in the usual way, try in safe mode.
During startup, you’ll see a progress bar, and then the login screen, which appears even if you normally log in automatically. You must know your login password in order to log in. If you’ve forgotten the password, you will need to reset it before you begin.
Log in as an administrator to carry out these instructions. If you have only one account, you are the administrator.
☞ If you don't see any reports listed, but you know there was a panic, you may have chosen Diagnostic and Usage Messages from the log list. Choose DIAGNOSTIC AND USAGE INFORMATION instead.
Safe mode is slower than normal, and some things won’t work at all.
Note: If FileVault is enabled in OS X 10.9 or earlier, or if a firmware password is set, or if the startup volume is a software RAID, you can’t start in safe mode.
If you're able to log in, launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
In the Console window, select
DIAGNOSTIC AND USAGE INFORMATION ▹ System Diagnostic Reports
(not Diagnostic and Usage Messages) from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
There is a disclosure triangle to the left of the list item. If the triangle is pointing to the right, click it so that it points down. You'll see a list of reports. A panic report has a name that begins with "Kernel" and ends in ".panic". Select the most recent one. The contents of the report will appear on the right. Use copy and paste to post the entire contents—the text, not a screenshot.
I know the report is long, maybe several hundred lines. Please post all of it anyway.
In the interest of privacy, I suggest that, before posting, you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.)
Please don’t post other kinds of diagnostic report.

Mac book pro won't turn on mavericks

I successfully upgraded to Mavericks 2 weeks ago and have been having sporadic problems.
Today my Mac Book Pro 15" 2012 edition (not retina) turned off while I was using it and will not turn back on.
Anyone have a similiar problem?

Hello ColeSF,
It sounds like you have been using OS X 10.9 for a bit and suddenly in the middle of using it, the computer shut down will not turn back on. I was researching what could be causing this to happen and found this article that should help you troubleshoot the issue named:
Troubleshooting: My computer won't turn on
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1367
Verify you have a good connection from your Mac to the wall outlet by confirming the power cord and adapter if present are securely connected and plugged in. To check if the wall outlet is working, plug in a lamp or other electrical device.
If the wall outlet is working and you continue to have no power try another power cord or adapter if available. If it works you may need a replacement cord or adapter.
Note: See Apple Portables: Troubleshooting MagSafe adapters for further troubleshooting with MagSafe adapters.
Disconnect all accessories that are plugged in to the computer, such as a printer, hub, or other mobile device.
If your Mac supports user-installable memory, solid state drive, or hard drive, and you recently installed any of these, make sure they are installed correctly and are compatible with your computer. If possible, reinstall the original memory or drive into the computer to find out if the behavior persists afterwards.
MacBook Pro: How to remove or install memory
MacBook: How to remove or install memory
Mac Pro: How to remove or install memory
Mac mini: How to remove or install memory
iMac (27-inch, Late 2012): Installing or replacing memory
iMac: How to remove or install memory
Reset the SMC.
If you are still unable to start up your computer after trying each of these steps, visit an Apple Store or Apple Authorized Service Provider (AASP) for further diagnosis. If you plan to visit an Apple Retail Store, make a reservation at the Genius Bar using http://www.apple.com/retail/geniusbar/ (available in some countries only).Note: Diagnostic fees may apply for issues not covered under warranty or the AppleCare Protection Plan (APP).
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
All the very best,
Sterling

Mac Book Pro Fan Noise

I just got my Mac book Pro but for some reason when I run graphic intesive apps the fan makes a noise, it almost sounds like a rattle snake is in my laptop. Anyone else having this issue?

you should post this in the ''Using your MacBook Pro'' Forum and not here in the ''The MacBook Pro Display'' Forum

Is a Mac Book Pro adequate for editing?

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