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Wednesday, February 22, 2006
The first MacBook Pros are making their way into the wild and outside of the PowerBrick power adapter that’s bigger then the state of Road Island, the big topic of discussion is its battery power being in the range of 2.5 hours for “normal” use. Ouch! Add a DVD spinning into that equation and I don’t think you’ll be watching many movies on the airplane, mate.
Digital501.c0m has got a great article with links to all the swag that will make your ‘Book wag. Ripping DVDs use to be okay on the Mac, but when you become the largest share holder of a Hollywood studio, I guess you’re outlook on ripping DVDs change and thus OS X no longer allows it natively. (By the way, Steve’s board member status at Disney may or may not have had anything to do with this, I just like teasing. 
) It’s too bad, because that saves battery power when you can read off a hard drive rather then an optical drive. No worries, remember I just told ya that Digital501’s got us hooked up!
Head on over and check out Traveling with Movies on a Mac as it’ll give you all the deets on how to get past Apple’s removal of the DVD rip feature and get those coveted VOBs onto your hard drive. And since those babies pack a huge need for disk space, there’s more links and help on how to pack the DVD into a smaller MPEG4 file. Want it on your iPod, too? Follow the links.
Now while I reference the MacBook Pro in the headline, it’s not clear if any of these freeware applications will run well on the Intel chip. Remember, all the professional video and graphic applications are dogs on the Intel under Apple’s emulator, so just take that into note. But that’s what overnight processing time is for.