Re: solve Video monitoring MacBookPro?

Yeah. I fully acknowledge the limitations of a system like this- but I'm just learning the software and in a year I might decide that it's not where my strength/interest lies and I should just hire someone.

If I do really take to DaVinci and some of the larger jobs potentially on the slate for the later half of the year go, then a new MacPro will definitely be the next step, along with a Tangent Wave.

Unfortunately, 2 ports on a drive doesn't solve my problem- that simply allows it to be part of the chain. With neither the Intensity or the Cintiq having a pass-through, I'd ultimately have to pick one to be at the end of the chain and then try to hook the other one up to the ExpressCard slot. That's probably would have been the Cintiq, using a ViDock and an external graphics card- ANOTHER $500!

Hooking all this gear up to my MBP was just getting too convoluted. The 2 TB ports on the iMac solves a lot of problems.

the built in SSD was the one thing I didn't have put in when I order the machine. I hope I can get that done aftermarket when I get the RAM bumped to 16GB.