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AppleInsider | Apple plans 17-inch MacBook Pro by June

As usual, take with the heaping helping of rumor salt, but 17" Intel Powerbooks, excuse me, MacBook Pros, would be quite useful and powerful for field editing. Esp. since you can hook up a monitor as large as 30 inches (already possible with the 15" model), and away you go with a lot of horsepower in your hotel room or on set.

By that time, an Intel native version of Final Cut Studio will have shipped, so you'll be ready to go. And with a non-crippled machine relative to a desktop unit. In fact, it'll be interesting to see how these dual core Intels stack up against a dual core G5. Prices won't be that different, although expandability (and the cost of expandability) will be different. Hmm....interestinger and interestinger.

-mike