Some advice about the performance of a Mac (book pro)

[platypus]

I'm considering purchasing a macbook pro.

The spec I'm looking at is the 2.4Ghz 15" version, with 4GB ram and the 7,200 rpm hard disk, which would be hooked up to a 25" widescreen monitor.

My concerns are how well it will perform under heavy stress from resource intensive applications. I use 3dmax, vegas video/adobe, milkfloat etc in windows currently, and want to know if the MBP would be capable of running these - and I don't mean it would manage to struggle along whilst rendering a 1gb video over the course of a week.

Looking at bootcamp makes the MBP look more attractive, as I could hack together Fedora or something else on the other partition, and since they've become fully unix certified I'm happy to start looking into one.

I'm only considering a MBP because I figure that my PC is good enough at the moment, so don't really want to get a mac desktop. However - if anyone does a lot of video editing/animation on theirs, I'd be really keen to get some opinions.

Thanks.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

It's a relatively fast machine, definitely so for a laptop when paired with 4 GiB RAM. For those tasks, though, I'd want a more powerful rig in the form of a quad core desktop.

 

[platypus]

I figured that to be the case, thanks Billy.

 

[Irish_Tom]

Yeah pretty much what Billy said. The MBP is perfectly fine for image manipulation: Lightroom, Photoshop, even video editing like After Effects and Premiere run smoothly but I'm not sure 3D Studio would be very happy if it had a lot of work to do. Probably looking at a Mac Pro for that kind of stuff.

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