Well as you've seen from the many responses to this post a lot of people use MAC and a lot of other people have made some distinction between MAC and PC. One thing no one has touched on is the real reason some many people suggest MAC, and may be they don't even know it. I'm also sure some others have made mention of it in earlier reply's so to those people, THANKS! Point being I've been in to the Video/DV/CG thing for nearly 8 years now and will hopefully be able to provide some good insight. MAC's main advantage is that all mac systems are mainly scsi based which means they have some very mean very fast throughput for you Video and audio to use. This makes for fast/smooth playback and editing. MAC manages to give a great price for such a sweet package which in it's self is nice. But when you compare it to the price of over all processing power in a PC and the amount of software available for the PC the MAC just doesn't hold up. The system you detailed above while good for the starter to mid range video artist is not the best way to go. If your planning to do some really mean video editing as well as keep your price in at least a some what reasonable range would be to go with the base level SGI machine with retails for around $4500. The huge upside to this system not only being the SGI pipeline is the fact that they utilize x85 processing which means you can run NT and all your usual PC graphics proggy's. In the end the determination is up to you, so good luck!
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Well as you've seen from the many responses to this post a lot of people use MAC and a lot of other people have made some distinction between MAC and PC. One thing no one has touched on is the real reason some many people suggest MAC, and may be they don't even know it. I'm also sure some others have made mention of it in earlier reply's so to those people, THANKS! Point being I've been in to the Video/DV/CG thing for nearly 8 years now and will hopefully be able to provide some good insight. MAC's main advantage is that all mac systems are mainly scsi based which means they have some very mean very fast throughput for you Video and audio to use. This makes for fast/smooth playback and editing. MAC manages to give a great price for such a sweet package which in it's self is nice. But when you compare it to the price of over all processing power in a PC and the amount of software available for the PC the MAC just doesn't hold up. The system you detailed above while good for the starter to mid range video artist is not the best way to go. If your planning to do some really mean video editing as well as keep your price in at least a some what reasonable range would be to go with the base level SGI machine with retails for around $4500. The huge upside to this system not only being the SGI pipeline is the fact that they utilize x85 processing which means you can run NT and all your usual PC graphics proggy's. In the end the determination is up to you, so good luck!