Mac vs. PC: Digital Video Editing Comparison

mnemonic writes "DigitalVideoEditing.com has posted its third Mac vs. PC comparison, dealing with performance in After Effects and Photoshop, graphics applications one might expect the Mac to be significantly faster in. It should be noted that the author, Charlie White, is a long-time PC supporter and disliker of Macs, though, as he shows, this preference is for as legitimate reasons as the ones devoted Mac users cite to disparage PC's. Ace's Hardware has another comparison that goes further in depth into the specifics of the G4, P4 and Athlon processors. As when comparing any two pieces of hardware, it's important to think not only of the relationship between performance and specification, but performance and price."

Comments

Yes, it *DOES* matter with video

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We arn't talking about 1/3rd of a second compared to a half a second between when you click and when a menu pops up, we're talking about 2 hours compared to 1 hour and 10 minutes for rendering a video. When the vast majority of your time is sitting around waiting for a render, it really does matter what system your using.

Even for doing low quality previews its important.

Also, windows does have color managers (not that you need it for video really) and basic utilities.

And we arn't talking about being six months behind, its more like 18-24 months.