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!
Mac has 1) Final Cut Pro and 2) iMovie (free with every iMac).
FCP is hardcore for pros. At least they use it on swedish television.
I'm not into MPEG- encoding, but there are several apps for it.
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?
Macs use IDE disks and PC-100 or 133 memory. SCSI is last century stuff ;-)
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.
My friend the journalist recorded interviews on DV and edited it all
on her iBook (slower than iMac) for several months in the jungle in
Colombia and Equador. She connected the iBook to the net and
transfered the reportages complete with sound daily so they were
shown on the eight 'o clock news here in Sweden.
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
Benchmarks are not all in life, my friend. Basically the Mac an the
PC are so alike nowadays that the choice is mostly a question of
taste and habits.
Look mom, no flames :-)
Henrik Dahl
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