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What Applications Won't Run (Well) On MacBooks?
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ncmason
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What applications do not run well on the MacBook?
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Mason
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The latest/greatest 3D games. And even some of the older ones, especially if they're not universal binaries.
Some GPU-dependant pro apps like Aperture and Motion.
Anything that needs a fast hard drive; laptop drives just aren't there.
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I run aperture. It warned me about the video issue but I just proceeded with the instalation and it works great so far.
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Originally Posted by rlinhares 
I run aperture. It warned me about the video issue but I just proceeded with the instalation and it works great so far.
Great is all dependent on how you use the software. Some people may be using the software far more intensively than others, so they wouldn't see it as running well. If it works for you thats awesome, I just know that when I tried to use aperture on a friends macbook it was very sluggish (it's possible that you're a heck of a lot more patient than me).
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I've found that Adobe CS2 crashes quite a bit. I recently installed CS3 and it seems to work better.
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ncmason
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Originally Posted by mduell
Anything that needs a fast hard drive; laptop drives just aren't there.
Can't you upgrade the MacBook's hard drive?
Mason
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Originally Posted by ncmason
Can't you upgrade the MacBook's hard drive?
Mason
It's incredibly easy to upgrade the MB's hard drive. So easy it's almost not fair. But there's a finite limit on how fast a drive you can put in and see a difference. A lot of 7200RPM drives don't really perform that much better than the 5400RPM drives of the same capacity. And the controller on the logic board is part of this equation too, though not really a choke point. So yes, go up as huge and fast as you can afford, but make sure you check the specs and transfer rates of your chosen replacement drive before you commit to buying it.
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Glenn -----
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ncmason
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Thank you for helping me with my questions.
Mason
(Last edited by ncmason; May 28, 2007 at 01:55 PM.
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Originally Posted by ncmason
Can't you upgrade the MacBook's hard drive?
Sure you can, but laptop drives are still slow. Apps that need to plow through a bunch of data from disk aren't going to run well on a laptop.
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ncmason
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Originally Posted by mduell
Sure you can, but laptop drives are still slow. Apps that need to plow through a bunch of data from disk aren't going to run well on a laptop.
They should run well on a MacBook Pro, right?
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Originally Posted by ncmason
They should run well on a MacBook Pro, right?
Nope. MacBooks and MacBook Pros use the same hard drives, so this is gonna be the same between the two. The only real differences between the two laptops are screen size and GPU.
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ncmason
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That's unfortunate. Hopefully Apple will change this in the upcoming MacBook Pros.
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It's a trade off between portability and top performance. Faster drives generally consume more power and people notice considerable drops in battery life when installing 7200 rpm drives. At least they're not the 4200 rpm drives that used to ship standard.
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Originally Posted by ~bash $
Faster drives generally consume more power and people notice considerable drops in battery life when installing 7200 rpm drives.
The difference between 5400 and 7200RPM is less than a quarter of a watt, which is rounding error compared to the 15-35W the rest of the machine is using.
The 10 and 15k RPM 2.5" drives, on the other hand, do consume a lot more power (and produce a lot more heat).
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Most people using laptops for intensive graphics / video use have fast external drives to speed these kinds of things up.
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i have an external drive that is fast, but I don't really notice any difference in speed, except than the external one is a lot slower than the internal one.
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Originally Posted by xsphat
i have an external drive that is fast, but I don't really notice any difference in speed, except than the external one is a lot slower than the internal one.
How is it connected? USB?
I have a FW800 drive here that easily reaches higher throughput than my MBP's internal drive. No surprise really as one is a 2.5" low power device and the other's a large power hungry 7200 RPM 16MB cache monster. 
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