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Re: PC or Mac
by Dylan Reeve (Sycophant) on May 9, 2008 at 1:54:59 am

The Mac offers the advantage of being able to run FCP and Media Composer, which is pretty handy, between the two you should have the right tool for almost any job.

However at the moment there is the issue that all new Macs ship with Leopard, which Avid doesn't yet support and the newer Mac Pros (Dual-Quad 3.2GHz and up) can't run earlier versions of OS X, meaning you won't be able to run Avid on one of those until v3 ships.

Macs are more expensive, but that can be mitigated somewhat by not buying RAM or hard drives from Apple.

Personally, and it pains me to say this, I prefer Windows XP to OS X (I like the principle of OS X more, but just not the execution). On a Mac Pro with Bootcamp you can run XP. Giving you the option of FCP/Avid on OS X, and Avid on Windows (the same dongle will run both the Windows and OS X versions).

It sounds like I'm falling on the side of Mac, but I'm not really sure - I don't like FCP that much. If I decided I didn't need FCP I'm pretty sure I'd go with a Windows PC.



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  • PC or Mac by ken wanninger on May 8, 2008 at 11:49:44 pm
    • Re: PC or Mac by Dylan Reeve on May 9, 2008 at 1:54:59 am
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