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Can a PowerBook laptop be used with Io or Io LA/LD?

April 26, 2017IO laptop LD PowerBook Used

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Can a PowerBook laptop be used with Io or Io LA/LD?

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Although this configuration is not officially supported by Apple computer, AJA has found it to work as long as the following minimum system configuration exists. The PowerBook must be at least a 933Mhz G4 Processor with 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended), and a 5400RPM internal drive. In regards to external FireWire storage: On a G4 powerbook, the FW400 and FW800 busses share the data bandwith, therefore we recommend installing a FireWire 800 PCMCIA (cardbus) adapter FW400 for your FireWire drive storage. The adapter we tested and recommend is by LaCie: http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10121 One FW800 drive is not quite fast enough for uncompressed; however it does work with the DV-25 or DV-50 compressed formats. For uncompressed, we recommend using two or more FW800 drives. Stripe the drives together using the OS X Disk Utility. Stripe the drives as: OS Extended (Not Journaled).