Just to let you all know, I am running Motion 1 with no problems on
one of these same machines. The discs for Motion 2 have gone
wandering, so I can't try that until they are brought back. You
definitely want as much ram as you can afford and/or fit in whichever
computer you are using Motion on.
ian
On Sep 22, 2005, at 12.06 pm, Roger Bolton wrote:
I finally got time to test the new ibook model with the Radeon 9550. I
loaded up my Quartonian patch, some other Quartz Composer files and
the
Motion compatibility checker on a USB stick and visited the Apple
store
in Regent St, reason being that I'm am going to buy one on these
only if
it ran core image filters in hardware.
The new ibook IS completely core image accelerated. Quartonian ran
at a
fair clip even on 640×480 clips. Motion compatibility checker said yep
this machine is supported.
I tested quite a few filters on 640x480 quicktimes, most ran at a fair
clip. Some of course booged down but it looks like they are all
running
in hardware on this machine.
Pretty good news for anyone who wants a cheap portable machine to use
core image or quartz composer files on... and in fact one of these
would
be faster than a 12" powerbook for core image stuff (the fx5200, less
said the better).
--
Roger
