MacBook Pro and Mac Pro.

Forum,
I am using a MacBook Pro 17 with a 2.4 Intel processor which is elegant and satisfactory.
However sitting around waiting for it to render is a pain.
It has 4Gb. RAM but that is not relevant to the problem.
I have looked at a Mac Pro with two 2.8 Intel processors but is that powerful enough to render in real time,which I think means immediately?
Thank you,
Michael Craven.

No matter how many processors or RAM you have FCP, at present, will mainly use one processor and something between 2.4 and 2.9 GB of RAM.
However, Compressor together with QMaster are the two applications capable to exploit the best of a machine like the one you describe but for rather different purposes (i.e Faster video/audio compression elapsing time).
Rendering is the antithesis of real time playing,anyhow, the need to render depends on several factors:
1) Make sure your clip settings match sequence settings and the result is that you do not need to render
2) Use FCP built in effect/transitions/generators plugins and you do not need to render.
3) Make sure your audio is AIFF 48 kHz, 16 bit
Any mismatch between clips and sequence setting or third party effect/transition/generator will result in an inevitable need to render.
Hope that helps,
G.

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