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Advice needed - Mac in the Cloud

  • 15-02-2014 4:47pm
    #1
    mockingjay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 420 ✭✭


    Hi, I'm wondering if anyone here can help me - I have a MacBook

    Model Name: MacBook
    Model Identifier: MacBook4,1
    Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
    Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz

    When I try to download I Movie or I Photo it tells me that "Your computer’s video card does not meet the minimum system requirements." so I'm presuming its too old to hold them - however, I was wondering if I downloaded Mac In the Cloud would it go onto it - I don't want to go ahead and pay for it and then discover my MacBook won't hold it. Any advice?

    When I test the download time it runs as normal.....


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  • #2
    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,693 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    Mac in the Cloud?


  • #3
    Zcott
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,206 ✭✭✭Zcott


    I had never heard of Mac In The Cloud until I just googled it. Turns out you rent a Mac somewhere and just have remote access to it. If you're wanting to do photo and video editing on it I would say this would not be fun at all.

    How about looking for previous versions of iPhoto and iMovie that will work? Your Mac is a good bit older now so it might be worth upgrading if you're going to be doing heavy lifting with it.


  • #4
    mockingjay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 420 ✭✭mockingjay


    Thank you. Mac in the Cloud isn't quite renting a MAC - you download the Mac package onto "any" laptop - Toshiba, HP etc. it just gives you the Mac packages (keynote etc.) online for approximately $20 per month and you must use your keyboard like its a Mac - fantastic. However my question still is - will it download on to my old MacBook?


  • #5
    Tokyo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,656 ✭✭✭✭Tokyo


    Actually, unless I'm reading the company website very wrong, Zcott has hit the nail on the head with his description. It states "You will use your web browser or a remote desktop program to connect to the rented, Apple manufactured Mac server. After logging in, you can remotely view and control the Mac as if you are sitting in front of the Mac screen."

    Computer is a server somewhere in the US, you connect into it using remote desktop. I'd imagine that what you want to do would depend very much on having a reasonable and stable connection speed...


  • #6
    Tokyo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,656 ✭✭✭✭Tokyo


    ...but to answer your question, your computer isn't doing any work, you're not downloading any "package" - all your mac has to do is be able to run a web browser or remote desktop program of your choosing, which it will be, in order to connect to the server, wherever that may be. The servers horsepower will be what runs the packages you mention (keynote etc), and will run them on the server, not on your computer.


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  • #7
    squonk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,987 ✭✭✭squonk


    Something like that is OK for casual use but I'd ideally like to have my own machine to allow my own backups for data etc. If I needed access to a computer intermittently e.g. for a case where I occasionally need to do work processing or more dedicated tasks that needed a mac but couldn't justify the cost of a new Mac then it'd be OK. It's not a solution in itself if you're a reasonably frequent user I'd think.


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