Powerbook Hard Drives over 7200rpm?

1. elipyke
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   Does Mac provide any options for hard drives in a powerbook over 7200 rpm? or even over 5400 rpm in the case of the prepackaged powerbooks.
   
   I'm travelling to different locations in South America to make educational videos for indigenous communities, and need a transportable editing station that is solid! any suggestions?

   Posted 8 years ago #

2. nobody
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   I too have considered this too and have a Powerbook in a wish cart at B&H... The 17 Powerbook is seductive in looks compared to an IBM ThinkPad. But look under the lid and you will see IBM has got its game together. Read most computer magazine hardware shootouts; they now embarrass Mac and Mac applications (even hardcore Apple editorized publications suggest misleading or faulty data and contribute poor straight line comparisons to show their products viability). Additionally, at MacWorld , Avid folks, numerous venders who were quietly candid and other professionals suggested that a PC platform with XP is a faster, has more robust options with long legs, and will be supported for the next five years. Those folks said to me& time are changing and get with new PC platform. Some big venders told me dont make the switch to Mac as the time has past. The PC upgrades are cheaper, the system very stable, and no one is running against the major players. With Premiere pro longer a Mac program, the final cut is not that attractive an option as Adobe beginning to move from support of Mac operating systems. What support could be dropped next is becoming seriously speculative but must seen as a trend considering the marketplace and new introductions. Since Adobe and even Avid to some degree is moving away from the Unix (Mac) platform, you might consider this a sign of the eventual disconnect. Also, you must know that Sony and Apple are getting further apart as co-development partners. Sony could be seen as a competitor to Apple with its Vaio computer products that have begun to see maturity. Apple has had to go with Canon for many developmental directions lately.
   
   Blah blah blah& I still have the Powerbook in the wish cart with the remove tab checked.
   
   Care to share the thread on this?
   

   Posted 8 years ago #

3. nobody
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   Apple is a company that is surviving due to its aggressive marketing, the elitist inclinations of its existing customer base, and its divergence into online music. Macs have now lost the technological edge in the digital NLE industry (underscored by the amount of PC technology they've currently adopted). In other words, MACs are now conventional, while PCs are revolutionary. This is why I believe there is no possibility of Apple gaining significant market share in the personal computer arena. Conversely, I predict an irreversible erosion of its market share, as more and more Windows solutions eat away at all MAC's traditional niche markets.
   
   The desktop NLE market clearly demonstrates this. As the cost of top-notch professional systems fall to $3000.00 or less, the market growth fueled by an abundance of new NLE software releases reside squarely on the PC side. The challenge to Apple's own marketing is significant. Apple now has to rely solely on Final Cut Pro to maintain their NLE status quo. The problem with this is that FCP just doesn't stand out compared to the PC 'heavy hitters', Vegas, Premiere, and Pinnacle Edition. Therefore there isn't a very compelling reason for the new generation of NLE editors to choose MAC over the cheaper and more prevalent PC solutions. While there will always be the 'old school' editors clinging on to their favorite editing platform which they adopted years ago, a new uncommitted generation of editors are emerging, having grown up in a Windows environment, discovering that there's no real reason to switch platforms to ply their trade. As you point out, Adobe, the NLE software leader, has abandoned Mac as a NLE platform, Therefore, within the NLE niche market, any operating system migration will overwhelmingly be from MAC to PC rather than the other way around.

   Posted 8 years ago #

4. browner
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   Why do you need a faster hard drive? A 5400 will take care of DV video files. Are you planning to do uncompressed? If you really want a faster drive, you can buy Firewire cases for $40. Drop a 7200 IDE in it and go.

   Posted 8 years ago #

5. nobody
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   Don't forget all of the graphic designers out there keeping the MAC dreams alive. For some reason it's the system of choice... But for video editing, PC's are the way to go.
   
   And to answer your question epyk, I agree with Ron Browne. Go with the external storage. A seperate hard drive is always a good idea especially for a laptop. You wouldn't want to bog down the OS by capturing to the same hard drive that keeps your system up and running. I'm not saying it can't be done, but it certainly has the potential to produce more problems (I.e. dropped frames)
   
   It also doesn't sound like a fun idea to replace your one and only hard drive. You'd have to re-install everything.

   Posted 8 years ago #

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