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Will this Macbook work for videos or am I wasting my time?
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Will this Macbook work for videos or am I wasting my time?

Djhuma 7:10 PM - 1 April, 2009
Hello the new mac book has been out for a while now but is very expensive. However there is an older white macbook still being sold by apple:


2.0GHz

* Intel Core 2 Duo
* 2GB DDR2 Memory
* 120GB hard drive1
* NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics

My question is that I would like to use it for video sl (these specs meet the minimum requirements apart from the graphics card which I assume is better becasue the model name is a larger number; 8400gt rather than 9400mIts a wild guess so I am not sure) and will these specs work well or with it being the bare minimum requirements or am i going to face trouble?
Karl W 4:03 AM - 2 April, 2009
Hi,

That should work fine, I am using a macbook 2.16 4 gig ram but only a intel 950 intergrated graphics card and I can do 80% of the video effects, has been 100% reliable and when I did make the VSL crash by pushing a whole lot of random commands quickly the VSL window disappeared but audio kept working and I just re-started VSL.

I would get more Ram and a bigger Hard-drive, both are easy to install as well.

Hope that helps,

Cheers, Karl,
andrew b 8:09 PM - 3 April, 2009
dude if you can, go for the mbpro of last year. hotfire!! works great. very stable.
Eloy Garcia 7:00 AM - 8 April, 2009
Hey Djhuma that should be fine to run VSL. A friend of mine is runing VSL with a 1.86 Macbook Pro 1st Gen with 2GB of ram and he has no problems.
djroue 8:16 PM - 12 April, 2009
Yes. Almost identical to my system, on which I've been spinning videos for the past 12 months.