Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #54450
From: Anders Sundstedt <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Subject: Re: [AE] AE on a laptop vs iMac
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 12:07:09 +0100
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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 <AE-List@media-motion.tv> 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

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