I'm glad I found this before I bought a Macbook. I guess I'll have to go for the Macbook Pro after all.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303782

I'm willing to bet Motion is the problem and the other apps will run.....on my Mac Mini I was able to install FCS except Motion because of the video card specs- but if you're looking to edit- i bet the Macbook will run FCP....just a hunch.

I'm going to agree with steve, only because when you click on the link it says that FC STUDIO is not compatible and that is because motion needs a faster graphics card I'm willing to bet that final cut pro does actually run.

Guys,

after adding an extra Gig of Memory on both my 15' and 17" mac books; Motion and Behaviors run fine.

Rand






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I think posters in this thread need to make a clear distinction between Mac Book and Mac Book Pro. The Mac Book Pro currently ships in 15" and 17" versions with high-performance GPU and dedicated V-RAM; the Mac Book comes in a 13.3" package with a shared-memory GPU (i.e. no dedicated V-RAM).

I think posters in this thread need to make a clear distinction between Mac Book and Mac Book Pro.

It's unfortunate that Apple chose this confusing naming scheme to replace "Powerbook" and "iBook" which were easily distinguished...

Here's a recent post from Macintouch on the topic:

Paul Irwin
People are overreacting to this. the 950 chipset is not your typical integrated chipset. it's a vista-ready, 1080p capable chipset. it supports coreimage and quartz extreme.
as for running final cut pro, honestly, i run it on far worse systems. including a 1 GHz single powermac g4 with a GeForce 4 MX with 64MB video... and i've used it on an older ibook g4 with 32 MB video RAM, and on a mac mini with the same. IT WILL RUN, or i will eat my words. there shouldn't be a problem, considering a large portion of FCP is on the processor and memory, and not the graphics card. with a dual 2.0 GHz and DDR2-667 RAM, FCP should be blazing fast on the macbook. i'm getting my "blackbook" this week, once my powerbook g4 buyer finishes the deal, and i'll post my results. don't expect motion to run (or run well), but DVDSP, soundtrack, FCP, livetype, compressor, etc. will run without a hitch, and it should be pretty dern fast, too.


http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/macbook/index.html#may22

I'm glad I found this before I bought a Macbook. I guess I'll have to go for the Macbook Pro after all.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303782


You might want to read this first

http://www.creativemac.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=43717

Cheers

Hans

You might want to read this first

http://www.creativemac.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=43717

Cheers

Hans
If Apple's intent in their statement was to persuade 'pro' app users to buy Macbook 'Pro,' it worked on me. I'm now the proud owner of a 2Ghz MB Pro. The size of the Macbook seems more ideal to me, but I do want the option to use Motion2. I got the X1600 with 256MB of VRAM and 1MB of RAM.
I still think the black Macbook looks awesome. It is too bad it doesn't have a dedicated graphics card.

Agreed 100%. I like the black Macbook's size and would buy it if it would run Motion2........ashame. 13.3" is ideal for a small powerful Mac laptop.

Agreed 100%. I like the black Macbook's size and would buy it if it would run Motion2.

It does run Motion! If you read the Creative Mac article, you'll see that it's simply the real-time playback of Motion timelines that's limited with the Intel 950 GPU. If it's not your main editing workstation, that's certainly something most users can live with.

FWIW,

Ron