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Video Editor here, is this a system upgrade or downgrade?
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<blockquote data-quote="Tennyson" data-source="post: 1340178" data-attributes="member: 228365"><p>Hello, I work for a commercial production company. Part of the deal when I started working here was that I had my own computer I could use. Now that I am established I have been trying to convince my boss to buy an office desktop...it would be beneficial if I decide to leave (but obviously I can't say that), and I want to preserve my macbook for personal audio recording at home.</p><p></p><p>My boss recently hired her daughter to run our photo division and she bought her the following 21" imac:</p><p></p><p>2.7GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 with 6MB on-chip shared L3 cache</p><p>4GB (two 2GB) of 1333MHz DDR3 memory</p><p>1TB (7200 rpm) hard drive</p><p>AMD Radeon HD 6770M graphics processor with 512MB of GDDR5 memory</p><p></p><p>Her daughter is leaving to live with her long distance BF, so she offered me the computer. However, my macbook pro has better specs:</p><p></p><p>2.66ghz INtel core I7</p><p>8GB 1066Mhz DDR3 SDRM - 2x4GB</p><p>500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200</p><p>NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M</p><p></p><p>So, I was looking to see two things: A) how do the 2 graphics cards</p><p>stack up, and B) are we able to put additional RAM into the imac? I</p><p>would want 16GB of ram in the imac, so I'm concerned it doesn't have</p><p>the required 2 extra slots to do this. Let me know if this is</p><p>possible, thanks! </p><p></p><p>And any other opinions on making this switch. I am not very technically savvy with computers. For instance, the processor in the imac is higher GHZ, but it is an i5 as opposed to the i7. I know absolutely nothing about the graphics cards, but in my experience RAM is the most important aspect of video editing anyway.</p><p></p><p>I run After effects and Final Cut heavily. Thanks for your time!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tennyson, post: 1340178, member: 228365"] Hello, I work for a commercial production company. Part of the deal when I started working here was that I had my own computer I could use. Now that I am established I have been trying to convince my boss to buy an office desktop...it would be beneficial if I decide to leave (but obviously I can't say that), and I want to preserve my macbook for personal audio recording at home. My boss recently hired her daughter to run our photo division and she bought her the following 21" imac: 2.7GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 with 6MB on-chip shared L3 cache 4GB (two 2GB) of 1333MHz DDR3 memory 1TB (7200 rpm) hard drive AMD Radeon HD 6770M graphics processor with 512MB of GDDR5 memory Her daughter is leaving to live with her long distance BF, so she offered me the computer. However, my macbook pro has better specs: 2.66ghz INtel core I7 8GB 1066Mhz DDR3 SDRM - 2x4GB 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200 NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M So, I was looking to see two things: A) how do the 2 graphics cards stack up, and B) are we able to put additional RAM into the imac? I would want 16GB of ram in the imac, so I'm concerned it doesn't have the required 2 extra slots to do this. Let me know if this is possible, thanks! And any other opinions on making this switch. I am not very technically savvy with computers. For instance, the processor in the imac is higher GHZ, but it is an i5 as opposed to the i7. I know absolutely nothing about the graphics cards, but in my experience RAM is the most important aspect of video editing anyway. I run After effects and Final Cut heavily. Thanks for your time! [/QUOTE]
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