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CS 3 & FCP on Macbook & Macbook Pro

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dbachrach

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I'm trying to get a straight answer about this. When I ask at the Apple Store, they can never tell me yes or no. And my friends with macbooks don't have CS3. My question is will Photoshop CS 3 (As well as the other apps in CS 3) and Final Cut Pro work on Macbooks. I'm not asking for the fastest of fastests speeds, but will they run well. Obviously they should run better than my 1.25 g4. I just want to make sure that not having the graphics card won't affect these applications. I can deal w/ no Final Cut but I must have CS3. I really love everything about the Macbook, except this little thing. If someone can confirm that they run CS3 on their macbook, it would convince me that I can go ahead and purchase.

Thanks in advanced.
 
CS3 should run fine except for the 3D features in PS CS3 extended

Final Cut Studio 2.0 won't run on machines with Intel integrated graphics.
 
dbachrach said:
I'm trying to get a straight answer about this. When I ask at the Apple Store, they can never tell me yes or no. And my friends with macbooks don't have CS3. My question is will Photoshop CS 3 (As well as the other apps in CS 3) and Final Cut Pro work on Macbooks. I'm not asking for the fastest of fastests speeds, but will they run well. Obviously they should run better than my 1.25 g4. I just want to make sure that not having the graphics card won't affect these applications. I can deal w/ no Final Cut but I must have CS3. I really love everything about the Macbook, except this little thing. If someone can confirm that they run CS3 on their macbook, it would convince me that I can go ahead and purchase.

Thanks in advanced.
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No. FCP requires a dedicated GPU. You need an MBP. CS3 WILL run fine. There is a crack out there somewhere that will allow you to run FCP on a MB, but you're on your own.
 
Ok thanks both of you. I don't plan on getting extended. So my main concern is that CS 3 will work and I'm glad it does. I can live with no Final Cut.

Thanks.
 
Just to clear things up. Final Cut studio WILL run on a Macbook and actually runs quite well. It is just officially not supported by Apple. Proof? Look at this....
 
Interesting- this is what I always thought:
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According to Apple, you can install FCS on MBs but it's not supported:

"Final Cut Studio is not supported on MacBook
If you have a MacBook, the Final Cut Studio (Universal) crossgrade Installer does not prohibit you from installing the pro applications, but this configuration does not meet the minimum system requirements for Final Cut Studio.

See the Final Cut Studio system requirements for complete requirements.

Note: The integrated graphics processor in the MacBook does not permit float processing in Motion and will result in degraded performance and other issues in Motion and other Final Cut Studio applications."

Currently, I don't think anyone has provided benchmarks for MBs and the latest version of FCS - but the last one didn't support MBs and it worked very well.

BTW I think quite a few people on this forum have posted that they've been using FCP on MBs extremely happily.
 
Article Refers to FCP 5.1 NOT FCS 2

jon4lakers said:
I cant speak for Adobe CS, but the apple store I was in over the weekend had Final Cut Pro running on one of the New BlackBooks, and it ran great (I was surprised) they even had motion on there.

Check out this benchmark article. I posted this awhile ago, but it relevant again.

http://creativemac.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=43717
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That article is from a year ago and refers to Final Cut Pro 5.1. It does not indicate whether Final Cut Studio 2 will run on a MacBook.

However, if you saw Final Cut Pro running on a MacBook at an Apple store over the weekend, chances are is was the latest version.
 
klifton said:
That article is from a year ago and refers to Final Cut Pro 5.1. It does not indicate whether Final Cut Studio 2 will run on a MacBook.

However, if you saw Final Cut Pro running on a MacBook at an Apple store over the weekend, chances are is was the latest version.
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The article was posted just to show the MB as a capable machine, and yes it was the current version of FCP in the store.
 
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