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MrCheeto

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Nov 2, 2008
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Hahaha, um, no.

I've used plenty of MacBooks and the only one that I find suitable is the aluminum MacBook Pro 2.4ghz and up. Everything else is a slug. I even tried to use the white 2.4ghz, but there have been so many improvements with the FSB, GPU and the CPU architecture, using anything else feels like the machine is locking up.

The MacBook Air has puh-lenty of power if you want to play music, watch movies, and take notes in class. However they just don't NEAR cut it when I want to harness RAW power and convert media and export and edit my HD videos.

In other words, the MacBook Pros are really for pro users.
 

Airforcekid

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Sep 29, 2008
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Hahaha, um, no.

I've used plenty of MacBooks and the only one that I find suitable is the aluminum MacBook Pro 2.4ghz and up. Everything else is a slug. I even tried to use the white 2.4ghz, but there have been so many improvements with the FSB, GPU and the CPU architecture, using anything else feels like the machine is locking up.

The MacBook Air has puh-lenty of power if you want to play music, watch movies, and take notes in class. However they just don't NEAR cut it when I want to harness RAW power and convert media and export and edit my HD videos.

In other words, the MacBook Pros are really for pro users.
I used my old air to do some work on final cut and compared to a mac pro I didn't notice a big difference less than 45 seconds to render difference the next gen will most Likely close this gap more for the average user or hobbyist for work related I wouldn't have any laptop either an I7 iMac or Mac Pro.
 
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