I know I will be flamed ;-) okay just an example - for software, I just
bought a Pinnacle Studio DV. Pinnacle system provide some very good and
cheap solution for PC, does Mac has something like that. There is also a
very good MPEG encoder from http://www.tmpgenc.com/e_main.html which is
better than lots of shareware I have tried and most important... it is free!
For hardware, I think you cannot have 512MB RAM for Mac at the price Jim
Brokaw mentioned ($40!). How about the hard disk? I think Mac uses SCSI
interface (correct me if I'm wrong) and they are more expensive than IDE,
same case for the SCSI CD R/W?
I know very little about Mac, just one question, do you think the iMac is
good enough to handle the very speed demanding DV editing. The Athlon 1.4G
PC seems a bit slow to me. Although the bench mark shown my Athlon is three
time faster than my PIII 450 in office. (Actually, without the ad of
hardware encoder, my Athlon can capture video at 7.5MB/s to my hard disk
without any frame drop, but it just can't capture 640x480 at 16 bit color
and 25fps).
C.H.Ling
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henrik Dahl"
> PC more flexible??? OK, it's my turn to start an OT flamewar now ;-)
> Seriously, the Mac is surrounded by so many strange prejudgments.
> It's a nice and pretty fast (nowadays) computer. An iMac is not very
> expendable (only memory) but is the perfect small office/home machine
> that runs Photoshop, video editing and Music composing programs. It's
> perfectly quiet (no fan), not spacious and rather good looking. The
> monstermachines G4 is of course a lot more expendable and a lot
> faster running dedicated programs (again Photoshop). There are
> THOUSANDS of quality programs and games for the Mac, and internet is
> bulging with free- and shareware. If you want to use more than those
> thousands of programs, you will need a PC. On my old (1997) Mac I use
> Word, Explorer, Eudora and Photoshop, Quark, Protools + some other.
> All newest versions without problems. Quite enough for me...
>
> Henrik Dahl
>
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