Specialist computers for video editing

Post by **The Swede** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 5:23 pm

Why not get the best of both.

Get a new Mac (intel) and install Bootcamp
Then you can run Windows native on the MAC

Cheers
Hans

Post by **gianni1** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 5:43 pm

To be honest, I chose to use Apple Macs because I wanted to be difficult. In my place of work (which is 85% wintell) by using macs I'm classified as off beat, unconformist, with plenty "steet cred"...... Partly a fashion statement if you ask me.... elegant and cool, image and appearances...Industrial Design, Aesthetic, feely, touchy, fancy, not form and function, like film vs video, analog vs digital....

My previous glamourpuss G4 Notebook was actually a cheap "made in Taiwan" Clone, and spent several months in repair centres because of her "narcoleptic" and intermittent USB dysfunctionality. She was an upset mistress. For example, Apple wanted Ã‚Â£900 pounds to fix a scratch on the back of her Titanium screen! LOL... Eventually it became unhingned and fell apart after a year or so of daily use.

That wonderfull thing, named Cleopatra, was like a sexy ZMII. I must have yellow fever, because I replaced her with another fast oriental Chineese notebook... A G4 1.67 named Nimue which is great BTW with a 100GB fast 7200rpm Hitachi disk and a pair of silicon filled 512MB DDR SDRAMs . At least she's not made in a Gulag slave camp, or with underpaid child labourers...

Gianni 8)

Post by BK » Sun Nov 05, 2006 4:09 am

Macs are nice, but the build quality and reliability are not like it was a few years back, they are now built to a price for the masses rather then for quality/reliability, that's why they are cheap to aquire now. OSX and FCP is very nice and easy to use though and solid when you get your head round it.

I built my own PC just to run Avid DV Xpress 6 years ago with the recommended configuration by Avid...it's still running sweet today. I have dual boot using 2 seperate drives, one is running Win98SE and the other running XP with just Avid and nothing else, so I can using the same machine to surf the net and edit without all this crap running in the background without me realising it and causing my NLE to crash or hang.

It would be nice it you could build your own Mac like a PC. I believe it is possible now since the Macs are using Intel Duo CPUs.

Bill

Post by **Actor** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 6:53 am

The Swede wrote:Why not get the best of both.

Get a new Mac (intel) and install Bootcamp
Then you can run Windows native on the MAC

Cheers
Hans

This does not strike me as a good idea. I can't say why it's not a good idea but something deep down tells me "don't do it."

When Apple first released Bootcamp they were not supporting it. Has that changed?

Post by **The Swede** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 8:24 am

Hi

Bootcamp will be a part of there new OS (i think it is called Leopard ) it will be out in the spring of 2007

At the moment it is only in Beta version but reports from user and magazines that i have read says it works perfect.

I havenÃ‚Â´t tried since I am just a new Mac user myself and are slowly learning my new Mac with FCP

I only use my PC for the Internet now, nothing else

Post by **mattias** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 3:26 pm

The Swede wrote:Why not get the best of both.

in my opinion the best thing with the mac is that you don't have to run windows. i've nothing against bill gates or microsoft or most of their software, office is fantastic, but mac os x is in almost every way a better os than windows. the only reason to run windows is if you want to run software that requires it, most often games, or if you already have hardware than won't run mac os. or what do you mean? what are some of the reasons for a mac owner who wants to make movies to run windows on his hardware?

/matt

Post by **The Swede** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 4:27 pm

I was mostly thinking of PC users who might have "a hard time" leaving there favorit aps.

Post by **idrawthings** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 6:18 pm

The dual boot is handy. I know guys who swear by PC Maya, but do all there compositing on Shake. And there's been a lot of talk about Avid Liquid, which is PC only. Makes life easier if you're used to using a bunch of different programs and don't want to have to relearn it for one platform only.

Post by **johnnhud** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 7:40 am

I loaded WinXP on my Mac to play some PC games I have. I have to admint that it performed very well. The games were probably about a year old though and didn't really push the limits of the machine. I'm not much of a gamer.

However I just deleted the windows partition of my hard drive yesterday after I realized that I hadn't used it in about 3 months.