Dongle question

[emilianomorgia]

I have a 2 ghz core duo with a gig of ram.

what Kind of catalyst version would you think to buy ?

Do you know that there are different versions ?

Emiliano

[ryanww]

Yea, I would love to just get the Pro. I would eventually like to get a Mac pro and have my own little set up. But for the time being, I would like to just use my current computer, and just not run it at full capacity. Ultimately it will be up to the price if it is easier for me to just purchase a copy or to just keep renting for some up coming shows.

[Gian]

Will work just fine,...

The only problem i can see is if you wanna play too many layers, than your videos will slow down. I have a MacBook (non pro), and I had a situation with one G5 with problems, and I used my MacBook and save me the day.
Dual Head or Triple Head to go will work on macbook without a problem, just do not know how the Graphic Board wiull handle, since is a 256Mb I belive will go OK, may be some one has the experience on that.
If you have a Macbook Pro with a Firewire 800, you definitly wanna use a external Hard Drive for CONTENT, like the LaCie (already 2 RAID internaly) Big Disks or so,...

[ryanww]

Yea, I assumed that since it is somewhat built in and limited. Thats why I had asked if the dongle would be able to go to another machine should I need more power or when I upgrade to a mac pro.

Unfortunately I only have firewire 400, which kind of sucks. But again, eventually I plan on upgrading. I already have 2 10,000 rpm drives (can't remember who makes them. They are ultra scsi though and 30 gigs a piece. But raided together, they will be fine and I would be willing to get better drives anyway down the road.

In the time being, I will probably only be doing 2 maybe 3 actual video playback layers, and a couple more for image shaping and such if that, so I think I will be fine with my Macbook pro.

Does anyone know how much it is going to be about? At least like a $1,000 or like $5,000?