Hi everyone,
Not new to the forum. Been lurking for a while. But this is my first thread. I have been a PC user forever. I still remember DOS commands. That being said, this old dog is ready to learn new tricks.
I am almost ready to bite the bullet and take the plunge into the 27" iMac. I am looking at the base machine except for adding the 1TB Fusion drive. My plans for the unit is pretty simple. Besides the usual web/email stuff, I have been scuba diving for about 10 years and have a tom of underwater photos that I want to re-edit. I am also going to try my hand at underwater video this summer. I thought that the the iMac would be best suited for the editing job without breaking the bank. And the only reason I chose the 27" over the 21" was the option of adding memory later.
Macs are not new to my household. My wife has had one for 10 yrs. These days it is mostly to surf. She did use Mac's at her previous job. My son who is a musician and also does audio/video editing for a local web design company has used one forever. I personally have never had the interest in touching one.....until we were looking at new Macbooks for the wife and I saw the iMac. What a sweet machine.
Not that I've bored you, just looking for opinions to see if I am on the right path and have the right thought process. I've toyed with iPhoto and assume iMovie is similar. My son uses Final Cut so I'm sure he can help with my learning curve.
Appreciate whatever other advise you have. Thanks in advance.
Pete
Not new to the forum. Been lurking for a while. But this is my first thread. I have been a PC user forever. I still remember DOS commands. That being said, this old dog is ready to learn new tricks.
I am almost ready to bite the bullet and take the plunge into the 27" iMac. I am looking at the base machine except for adding the 1TB Fusion drive. My plans for the unit is pretty simple. Besides the usual web/email stuff, I have been scuba diving for about 10 years and have a tom of underwater photos that I want to re-edit. I am also going to try my hand at underwater video this summer. I thought that the the iMac would be best suited for the editing job without breaking the bank. And the only reason I chose the 27" over the 21" was the option of adding memory later.
Macs are not new to my household. My wife has had one for 10 yrs. These days it is mostly to surf. She did use Mac's at her previous job. My son who is a musician and also does audio/video editing for a local web design company has used one forever. I personally have never had the interest in touching one.....until we were looking at new Macbooks for the wife and I saw the iMac. What a sweet machine.
Not that I've bored you, just looking for opinions to see if I am on the right path and have the right thought process. I've toyed with iPhoto and assume iMovie is similar. My son uses Final Cut so I'm sure he can help with my learning curve.
Appreciate whatever other advise you have. Thanks in advance.
Pete