From: "Anders Sundstedt" Received: from DUB004-OMC4S23.hotmail.com ([157.55.2.98] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP id 5514307 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Sat, 28 Jun 2014 13:07:08 +0200 Received: from DUB128-DS3 ([157.55.2.72]) by DUB004-OMC4S23.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(7.5.7601.22701); Sat, 28 Jun 2014 04:07:08 -0700 X-TMN: [YP6T+zMMQjeA1bZq5q4PET71lmWX98XT] X-Originating-Email: [anders@sundstedt.co.uk] Message-ID: Return-Path: anders@sundstedt.co.uk To: "After Effects Mail List" References: In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [AE] AE on a laptop vs iMac Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 12:07:09 +0100 Organization: Sundstedt Animation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 16.4.3528.331 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V16.4.3528.331 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 28 Jun 2014 11:07:08.0255 (UTC) FILETIME=[1A2D3EF0:01CF92C1] A basic question regarding going for a MacBook Pro: Can you connect PC/Windows USB hard drives to a MacBook Pro and access the files on it (read/write)? Thanks Anders -----Original Message----- From: KO MARUYAMA Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2014 8:18 AM To: After Effects Mail List Subject: Re: [AE] AE on a laptop vs iMac Chris, I was in the same boat. I love working on my older 15" MBP. Bring the project to the studio to do the heavy lifting. PROS: portable, attach thunderbolt as necessary (storage/monitor), bring work anywhere CONS: expensive, not as powerful, bring work everywhere Ae, Pr and even C4D run well enough on it, but big renders should get ported to a desktop. Ko MBP 15" 2.7GHz i7 16GB RAM On Jun 27, 2014, at 11:22 PM, Chris Zwar wrote: > Just picking the collective brains of the list... > > I have never had a laptop or any sort of portable computer, my home > machine has been an iMac for the past 10years. My current imac has just > died and I'm now thinking about replacing it with a MacBook Pro and a big > monitor. > > In the past I have worked from home considerably but currently I do very > little work from home, and so having a powerful desktop machine seems a > bit old fashioned. The portability of a MacBook versus an iMac is very > appealing. Storage is not an issue because I already use an external > storage system anyway. > > Any thoughts on the pros/cons of working with AE on a laptop- specifically > a retina MacBook Pro - versus an iMac? > > - Chris > > Sent from my iPhone > +---End of message---+ > To unsubscribe send any message to +---End of message---+ To unsubscribe send any message to