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Hey all...!!!
Well after a few days with an iMac G5 17" I decided I needed something better so I just bought and expect delivery tomorrow a new white Macbook.
I have had Macs as far back as the old 512k Mac with OS6 which was used for noting more than Crystal Quest.
At the same time I had an Amiga A1200 and then kept down the PC route.
Over the years I have had a few fossils by the time I got them, Mac LC, LCII, LCIII, Quadra, Performer and even a PowerPC/TV but by the time I got them they were of little practical use.
More recently I was given a blueberry iMac G3 with OS X on it which I played with for about 5 mins and went back to my beloved PC.
So this brings me sharply to the present...
In the Christmas sales (UK's equivalent of black friday) I managed to get a Sony HDR-SR5 HD Camcorder and one of my other passions being preserved railways I wanted to start a new hobby of video editing etc (as cheap as possible tho) and I staretd with My PC.. I have tried Sony Vegas and Adobe Premiere on the PC but find neither of them do a great job as I think a PC is like a jack of all trades.
Now I can imagine you all thinking a 2Ghz Macbook with 2Gb ram will be painfully slow. I dont really care about the speed, its the quality it produces tahts the most important. I plan very very quickly to upgrade the memory to 4Gb if that would help and also have a 320Gb drive fitted very very soon as I know how much drive space HD video will take.
I was also very unhappy with the way that the PC could manage to totally ruin the quality of motion video, Different applications would cause different problems so I figured the Mac might fare better as the Apps do seem to be so much better written...
As far as Which I will prefer, I have no clue yet. I havent used a Mac enough to say its better or not but I know graphics and proper work is what they are designed for. Even the free basic apps like Garage band and iDvd are amazing compared to anything you get from windoze that I instantly put the G5 up for sale and made me want to get an intel based machine so I can give the mac a fair chance. Also the fact that Even tho the G5 is reasonably fast at day to day tasks like iTunes,Web Browsing and stuff, no video editing software would support AVCHD without an intel processor. Even worse is that most also needed teh Nvidia chipset fr Quartz compatibility. So it was a nice surprise to find the new macbook white haveing the nvidia graphics and not the intel.
A little history of me before I bore you all to death...
I am I T Manager of the Midlands, Worcestershire, Oxfordshire and Warwichshire areas of FedEx UK and have been a computer nut all of my life with a strong lead towards the hardware. I could never get my head around programming and also for some stupid reason I have never been able to get on with Linux. as a Hobby I am technical in a vintage way although I also hold qualifications in microelectronic systems I prefer old Valves or Radio Tubes...
So...
That is Me and I say a big HELLO!!! to everyone... I know taht this forum is mainly American but there isnt a great Mac following here in the UK..
So the simple question after all of this is....
Will an extra 2Gb of memory and the bigger Hard Drive help for video editing.
And even tho I am technically not a Mac newbie, I am still learning from scratch as anything I do know about Macs I could fit on a gnats wing...
Kindest Regards to anyone who has managed to read this far....
Andi
Well after a few days with an iMac G5 17" I decided I needed something better so I just bought and expect delivery tomorrow a new white Macbook.
I have had Macs as far back as the old 512k Mac with OS6 which was used for noting more than Crystal Quest.
At the same time I had an Amiga A1200 and then kept down the PC route.
Over the years I have had a few fossils by the time I got them, Mac LC, LCII, LCIII, Quadra, Performer and even a PowerPC/TV but by the time I got them they were of little practical use.
More recently I was given a blueberry iMac G3 with OS X on it which I played with for about 5 mins and went back to my beloved PC.
So this brings me sharply to the present...
In the Christmas sales (UK's equivalent of black friday) I managed to get a Sony HDR-SR5 HD Camcorder and one of my other passions being preserved railways I wanted to start a new hobby of video editing etc (as cheap as possible tho) and I staretd with My PC.. I have tried Sony Vegas and Adobe Premiere on the PC but find neither of them do a great job as I think a PC is like a jack of all trades.
Now I can imagine you all thinking a 2Ghz Macbook with 2Gb ram will be painfully slow. I dont really care about the speed, its the quality it produces tahts the most important. I plan very very quickly to upgrade the memory to 4Gb if that would help and also have a 320Gb drive fitted very very soon as I know how much drive space HD video will take.
I was also very unhappy with the way that the PC could manage to totally ruin the quality of motion video, Different applications would cause different problems so I figured the Mac might fare better as the Apps do seem to be so much better written...
As far as Which I will prefer, I have no clue yet. I havent used a Mac enough to say its better or not but I know graphics and proper work is what they are designed for. Even the free basic apps like Garage band and iDvd are amazing compared to anything you get from windoze that I instantly put the G5 up for sale and made me want to get an intel based machine so I can give the mac a fair chance. Also the fact that Even tho the G5 is reasonably fast at day to day tasks like iTunes,Web Browsing and stuff, no video editing software would support AVCHD without an intel processor. Even worse is that most also needed teh Nvidia chipset fr Quartz compatibility. So it was a nice surprise to find the new macbook white haveing the nvidia graphics and not the intel.
A little history of me before I bore you all to death...
I am I T Manager of the Midlands, Worcestershire, Oxfordshire and Warwichshire areas of FedEx UK and have been a computer nut all of my life with a strong lead towards the hardware. I could never get my head around programming and also for some stupid reason I have never been able to get on with Linux. as a Hobby I am technical in a vintage way although I also hold qualifications in microelectronic systems I prefer old Valves or Radio Tubes...
So...
That is Me and I say a big HELLO!!! to everyone... I know taht this forum is mainly American but there isnt a great Mac following here in the UK..
So the simple question after all of this is....
Will an extra 2Gb of memory and the bigger Hard Drive help for video editing.
And even tho I am technically not a Mac newbie, I am still learning from scratch as anything I do know about Macs I could fit on a gnats wing...
Kindest Regards to anyone who has managed to read this far....
Andi