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Posted by Richard Crowley on 10/05/25 11:45
sales wrote ...
>I am in the process of purchasing a new computer for
> my video business. I am looking for a PC. Mac was
> one I was looking for but I am very familiar with the
> PC's and don't want to begin the learning curve of the
> Mac. I am using a Pentium 3.2mhz (Intel) 1gig ddr2
> ram, 400gig 7200rpm 8mb cache HD. Intel Board..
> I suppose my question is... do I need to upgrade? or
> is the computer I'm using satisfactory?
> Any opinions? or Suggestions?
Thousands of hours of video have been edited on far
lesser machines. Chances are that most of the people
here are editing video on lesser machines than yours.
If this is for a for-profit business, I would think that the
major consideration is the cost/benefit ratio. What benefit
do you get from the very fastest CPU and 4GB of expensive
RAM vs. what it costs? Most people agree that the "sweet-
spot" in CPUs is not the very fastest/latest model, but more
likely the one just one or two notches below it. OTOH, the
faster/better you buy, the longer its useful lifetime will be.
If you are already a "PC shop" switching to Mac does
not appear to have much positive cost/benefit ratio. The
higher cost of Mac may be justified in some situations,
but yours does not sound like one of them. Since I work
for Intel, I now have no recommendation between PC
and Mac now that they have switched to our CPUs :-)
Your listed system sounds fine except for the HD.
IME, a 60-80 GB HD for the boot/OS/programs/cache
is what I usually use for a audio/video editing workstation.
Then for video, two drives at least 100~120 GB each for
the media files. I like having two different drives because
it seems to make rendering tasks faster (and less wear
and tear on the drive) because of not having to "thrash"
back and forth between the source file and the destination
file.
Whether you buy into my two-drive scheme for media
files, in any case, you DON'T want to use the same drive
to store both the operating system/cache AND the media
files. This is bad news any way you slice it.
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