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alancheeky
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macbook - video editing/animation? - 2007/02/12 11:23 Hi. Im a student in my second year at university studying media production. I need to get an apple mac because the university uses apple. Im thinking of getting a macbook black with 1 or 2gb ram and around 120 gb hard drive. Ive noticed that the graphics card is only 64mb, and i wanted to get some advice. Is this graphics card enough to work with animation and rendering films? I dont think i can stretch to a macbook pro, but i wanted to know what i was up against once i bought the macbook.

Please help

thanks. alan.

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Cacicedo
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Re:macbook - video editing/animation? - 2007/02/12 13:27 MacBooks do not have a dedicated graphics card, but rather use shared video--not the best alternative for video editing. Since you're thinking of getting a black MacBook, figuring in education discounts, that comes to US$1400, and that includes 2 512 KB RAM sticks. For US$400 more, with educational discount, you can get a MacBook Pro with a decent graphics card and one 1 GB RAM stick, leaving the second slot open for more RAM. I know $400 is significantly more expensive, but it'll be worth it for what you want to do. Does your school have a loan program that allows you to pay off computer loans without interest penalty? You might want to investigate that possibility, at any rate.

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