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About to buy a mac for final cut pro/studio
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<blockquote data-quote="iggsta" data-source="post: 888684" data-attributes="member: 115048"><p><strong>Older iMacs for new Final Cut Studio</strong></p><p></p><p>Hi everyone,</p><p>Have been deliberating about which mac to buy in order to learn Final Cut Studio - I hope to use the software to edit short films of potentially an hour in length, and will be using Motion, Compress, Colour and After Effects.</p><p></p><p>I'm on a very limited budget but I am a student, so I am elligible for a 15% discount (and free ipod touch) from the apple store. However, since I can't use any model with the integrated NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics card (as seems to be standard issue for all the new, affordable models), I'm not considering buying a second hand, older generation machine.</p><p></p><p>Can anybody advise me about which older model of iMac (or any other suitable machine) would run the new version of FCS effectively and could be picked up on a fair budget? So far eBay has found me machines with ATI Radeon HD2600s, NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GTs and the GeForce 8800GS. Would these all be OK and are any preferable?</p><p></p><p>Many thanks</p><p>Dom</p><p></p><p>.... Also found a model with a NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT 256mb card.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="iggsta, post: 888684, member: 115048"] [b]Older iMacs for new Final Cut Studio[/b] Hi everyone, Have been deliberating about which mac to buy in order to learn Final Cut Studio - I hope to use the software to edit short films of potentially an hour in length, and will be using Motion, Compress, Colour and After Effects. I'm on a very limited budget but I am a student, so I am elligible for a 15% discount (and free ipod touch) from the apple store. However, since I can't use any model with the integrated NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics card (as seems to be standard issue for all the new, affordable models), I'm not considering buying a second hand, older generation machine. Can anybody advise me about which older model of iMac (or any other suitable machine) would run the new version of FCS effectively and could be picked up on a fair budget? So far eBay has found me machines with ATI Radeon HD2600s, NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GTs and the GeForce 8800GS. Would these all be OK and are any preferable? Many thanks Dom .... Also found a model with a NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT 256mb card. [/QUOTE]
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