chaos123x
2005-08-15, 13:41
Hello:
I am condsidering buying a second mac to bring with me to work, and hook up to a monitor and stuff with KVM cables. I do allot of video work and most of it is done on my home system (Dual 2.7 powermac, 4gig ram, nvdia 6800 card).
I am running Final Cut Studio at home, but at work they use a PC with Edius.... I do not want to use Edius! or Windows for that matter... and I would like to have a system I can bring to work.
The problem is that a nice powerbook with all the extras will run me about $3,000.00 dollars!!! and they have the same SLOW g4 chips in them as a Mac mini, Emac, or ibook. After spending ALL the money i have, this year on my Powermac setup, I do not wish to spend another 3 grand.
So heres the question... The Mac Minis have been slightly upgraded with a new videocard the ATI 9550.... the 9550 is a core image capable card... and it really is just a 9600 card just slightly clocked down.
Will the new Mac Minis run Motion? I mean the 9600 is on the compatiblity chart and the 9550 is not... But then again it is Core Image compatible.. so WTF?
Can any body see if Motion will open on the new Mac minis?
Or least run the compabilty checker on it?
I just need it to open... I will be doing 99% of my work at home, and 100% of the rendering and at home... At work I will just be making straight cuts when to fix errors I might have missed in FCP. I wont really be running motion on the Mini I just need to be able to have the graphics I made show up in FCP.
My friends powerbook is a few years old with a 32mb video card and it runs motion pretty FAST and it only has a 1.33ghz processer.
I am condsidering buying a second mac to bring with me to work, and hook up to a monitor and stuff with KVM cables. I do allot of video work and most of it is done on my home system (Dual 2.7 powermac, 4gig ram, nvdia 6800 card).
I am running Final Cut Studio at home, but at work they use a PC with Edius.... I do not want to use Edius! or Windows for that matter... and I would like to have a system I can bring to work.
The problem is that a nice powerbook with all the extras will run me about $3,000.00 dollars!!! and they have the same SLOW g4 chips in them as a Mac mini, Emac, or ibook. After spending ALL the money i have, this year on my Powermac setup, I do not wish to spend another 3 grand.
So heres the question... The Mac Minis have been slightly upgraded with a new videocard the ATI 9550.... the 9550 is a core image capable card... and it really is just a 9600 card just slightly clocked down.
Will the new Mac Minis run Motion? I mean the 9600 is on the compatiblity chart and the 9550 is not... But then again it is Core Image compatible.. so WTF?
Can any body see if Motion will open on the new Mac minis?
Or least run the compabilty checker on it?
I just need it to open... I will be doing 99% of my work at home, and 100% of the rendering and at home... At work I will just be making straight cuts when to fix errors I might have missed in FCP. I wont really be running motion on the Mini I just need to be able to have the graphics I made show up in FCP.
My friends powerbook is a few years old with a 32mb video card and it runs motion pretty FAST and it only has a 1.33ghz processer.