[devilla101]

Hey guys

Thinking of purchasing an ibook for graphic design and dv editing(hobby) on imovie and Final Cut Express

Specs follows
12" ibook (I have an external 19" monitor and planning to use spanning hack)
768 RAM
60 HDD
Bluetooth

And planning to purchase the Maxtor 200GB 7000DV External Storage and Sony Dual Layer burner with external casing and bluetooth kb and mouse SOON!!

Since this is my first mac I don't want to splurge on a powerbook just in case.

I should be able to do graphc design at a comfortable speed with this little thing (I rarely need to edit anything over 30MB pics)

[f1000]

Consider purchasing your own 200 GB hard drive and installing it into a Firewire chassis/case. You might save quite a bit of money.

[kdixey]

The 12" screen is going to feel cramped using Final Cut. I would consider the 14" if you don't mind the extra size.

[ccsccs7]

Um, is this a G3 or G4 processor (and what speed if it's a G3)?

[tooki]

Originally posted by kdixey:
The 12" screen is going to feel cramped using Final Cut. I would consider the 14" if you don't mind the extra size.

It's the same screen resolution on both, it makes no difference in "crampedness". The 14" just uses bigger pixels.

tooki

[kdixey]

Originally posted by tooki:
It's the same screen resolution on both, it makes no difference in "crampedness". The 14" just uses bigger pixels.

tooki

It's not a matter of resolution. The 12"screen is physically smaller than the 14" and in my experience harder to see. Maybe "cramped" is the wrong way to describe it, but FCP on the 12" is harder to deal with than on the 14" because many of the rather small controls in FCP are simply harder to make out on the smaller screen.

[Rev-O]

I use a 12" iBook for iMovie editing while on the go. While it doesn't compare to my 23" hdcd, it's adequate. You're trading portability for practicality. That being said, I feel the 12" works jus' fine. The area I notice the lack of screen real estate is when I'm scrolling thru titling and transition effects. I have all 6 Slick Volumes for iMovie, and scrolling thru 100 odd titles in a 1" tall window is a drag.

Absolutely get an external firewire drive. I'd get at least a bus powered 60 gig for iMovie (about 4 or 5 hours of video), but the bigger the better!

[devilla101]

Absolutely get an external firewire drive. I'd get at least a bus powered 60 gig for iMovie (about 4 or 5 hours of video), but the bigger the better! [/B][/QUOTE]



Bus powered? Never heard of that one. Thought its a simple firewire or USB choice and making sure it has an 8MB buffer. Can you please point me to some reference material.

Well I do have an external 19" monitor so i'll be doing DV editing on that with the spanning hack.

Portability helps cause I can show clients some work and when I travel overseas.

[Rev-O]

Originally posted by devilla101:
Bus powered? Never heard of that one. Thought its a simple firewire or USB choice and making sure it has an 8MB buffer. Can you please point me to some reference material.

Well I do have an external 19" monitor so i'll be doing DV editing on that with the spanning hack.

Portability helps cause I can show clients some work and when I travel overseas.

Whatever they call it when the drive gets its power thru the firewire cable and doesn't require a seperate power supply...

[Rev-O]

not the only bus powered firewire hard drive out there, but something like this is what I was talking about. Eliminates the need for a place to plug in another power supply. I'm sure it eats you battery for lunch, but would work fine at Starbucks...

Now that I think of it, as I seem to recall IEEE 1394 uses 4 pins for data transfer and 2 pins for supplying power. That's why some firewire devices use a 6 to 4 cable (like DV camcorders, which use their own power supply) and some devices use a 6 to 6 cable (which allows for possible powering thru the cable itself). Am I right or stoned?

[f1000]

Originally posted by Rev-O:
not the only bus powered firewire hard drive out there, but something like this is what I was talking about.

Is that enclosure for 2.5" hard drives? I've never seen a bus-powered Firewire enclosure for 3.5" drives, which is what I'd be interested in.

[Rev-O]

Originally posted by f1000:
Is that enclosure for 2.5" hard drives? I've never seen a bus-powered Firewire enclosure for 3.5" drives, which is what I'd be interested in.

Uh... dunno. Think all of I've seen are 2.5". But I hadn't really invested that much time researching 'em. Think the whole bus powered deal is designed for maximum portability, and that being the case, I figger it would tend to be a 2.5" thang, not a 3.5" thang. But hell, I'll be honest, I'm guessing!