Moving to MBP- Only ever used windows

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Hi,
I'm moving over to a Macbook Pro for Video editing and due to the awesome news of steam also some games - TF2, HL2 and future releases. Mainly video and photo editing though.
What kind of spec would I need to achieve a good video editing laptop that will double as a desktop.
My windows desktop is a beast but i'm moving away abroad and want to not only increase the professionality (Is that even a word) of my videos, but become better at editing on more commonly used software systems that the proper video editors use.

Price around £1500. Also, SSD worth having more than the extra ram?

Any help is greatly appreciated!
 
Humm i dont know anything about video editing but i have done the transition from having a beastly desktop to having a macbook pro :) (i had the same set up apart from a an e8200 and a velociraptor)

But anyway i got the mid 09 mbp with both the extra 9600gt and havnt really missed having a big old gaming pc (and now steams on mac it makes things a fair bit simpler).

Id assume its best for you to have a good look at the i5 mbp's and compare them to the top i7 one and find out if video editing is ram or proc limited... As a random extra id try and get the fastest (but also largest) hard drive as i do miss having a velociraptor sometimes....
 
Video editing using imovie09 will work on even the most basic of macs, in full 1080p HD.

I have a 2ghz Core 2 Duo mac, with 2gb of DDR3 and a 160gb disc. It does the video editing in real time with no stutter or pausing. The only slight drag is the render time. To render a half hour 1080P HD video can take over an hour on it.

But the editing is fine. and as for the rendering, i just leave it plugged in and go do something else.

If you want to fly through the editing, get a quad imac. That will fly through the render time as upgrading from dual core to quad core almost halfs your render time alone, before any other increases as Rendering is so CPU dependent. Since quadcores arent available on the macbooks, there will only be small variations in the render time, just get the best spec you can afford.
 
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don't do any video editing really, so I can't be too helpful, but just thought I would point out not all macs can handle 1080p - my mac mini lags horribly when playing back HD content.
 
wilko49 said:
don't do any video editing really, so I can't be too helpful, but just thought I would point out not all macs can handle 1080p - my mac mini lags horribly when playing back HD content.
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But he is talking about the MBP, which can handle 1080p.
 
If you have £1500 to spend on an Apple laptop then the MBP at that price point pretty much chooses itself.

I would stick to RAM over an SSD at this point in time as OSX is lacking trim, plus if you can live without it you'll get a much better/larger SSD in the future which will give the machine a new lease of life.
 
Bought a MBP a few weeks ago, best decision I've made in ages. Its really slick to use. OS X takes a little bit to getting used to. I find myself using much more keyboard commands than I did with Windows but its faster once you get the hang of it.
 
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