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This latest MacBook is a borderline gaming laptop but it costs over £2000 in the UK.

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I was willing to pay more for a MacBook so I boiled my choice down to last year’s cheaper dual-core i5/i7 based MacBook Pro 17″ with NVidia 330M 512MB graphics that can be hacked to work with CUDA ( see EOSHD article on how to do that here) or the brand new (and more expensive) quad core i7 MacBook Pro 17″ with no CUDA but a very good AMD Radeon HD 6750M with 1024MB.

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NVidia want to sell more desktop graphics cards, Adobe want to sell more software no matter which hardware it runs on, both depend on each-other for support.

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There are probably all sorts of PC industry politics at play here as well.

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However it may even be another 2 years before we see it in CS7, or as an update in-between – who knows how long it will take Adobe to implement? It really wasn’t until Lion in the Summer of 2011 that Apple implemented OpenCL fully ( see EOSHD article on that here) so I am expecting it to turn up in Premiere Pro CS6 for Lion users with the latest MacBooks featuring AMD Radeon graphics. Even today (March, 2011), we don’t have a lot of real OpenCL applications. Adobe is continuing to evaluate OpenCL for future development but today Adobe’s GPU acceleration technology is based on CUDA from NVIDIA. CS5 wouldn’t have had GPU acceleration at all had it been based on OpenCL. When CS5 was under development OpenCL wasn’t even ratified or finished.

According to an Adobe guy at the Genesis Project blog: Now Adobe say they are evaluating the Mac equivalent to CUDA – an open standard called OpenCL which AMD supports on their latest Radeon cards that power the new 8th generation MacBook Pros.

There’s a third consideration – last year’s MacBook Pro has a CUDA enabled NVidia card but to be honest support on that in Premiere was very unofficial and flakey because of the need to hack the Mercury Playback Engine (MPE) to work in CUDA mode and a lack of video RAM in the 2010 MacBook (512MB rather than the recommended 1GB). If you want a renderless timeline in Premiere do you get a PC laptop with CUDA or a very pricey quad core MacBook Pro for double the price? Now the powerful acceleration of playback in Premiere Pro with a NVidia CUDA card is the main reason people are tempted to run Premiere on a PC. But if your CPU is powerful enough you can seamlessly playback un-rendered parts of the timeline in real-time. NVidia CUDA gives you a very powerful hardware accelerated playback engine with real-time effects rendering rather than the red-strip & wait to render timeline approach. To CUDA or not to CUDA? That is the question…Īpple’s falling out with NVidia means the graphics GPU accelerated timeline in Premiere Pro CS5 and CS5.5 is OUT on the latest generation of MacBook Pros. If you are on a budget you can get fantastic performance on a PC desktop for 3x less than a MacBook costs and the high end PCs are very high end indeed! Although I will compare PC performance in Premiere at the bottom of this article.

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The screens are second to none in terms of colour and contrast, they are like portable cinema displays, and the unibody construction is far superior to even the best built PC laptop, period. OSX is still the best operating system out there whilst Windows 7 has been a great improvement over Vista but it still lacks the fluidity and focussed design ethic of a Mac. There are other benefits of a MacBook over a cheaper PC laptop which make the extra money justified. Also I am often on the go so I much prefer editing video on a laptop than on a desktop workstation. Now let’s be clear in terms of outright bang for buck, PC desktops (and laptops) offer far more speed but that has always been the case and the Mac platform has never been about bang, rather creativity. How a machine assists creativity can be measured it is just harder to gauge from the specs! For me creativity needs an unhindered workflow, a good display and an intuitive OS. Software wise Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 is king at the moment. There are now a lot of MacBook Pros to choose from and Apple’s falling out with NVidia together with the relative disappointment of FCPX has put a new spin on which machine to buy for video editing.

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