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Posted by Spex on 04/22/07 10:44
Luis Ortega wrote:
> Thanks, Spex,
> I have made no decision yet and in any case I am waiting until August right
> before we start school again to make my purchase, whatever that turns out to
> be.
> My two choices are:
>
> 1. Upgrade my PC from my current P4 setup to a Core 2 Quad system (or Core 2
> Duo if the software can't exploit the quad performance) with new
> motherboard, 4 gig ram and 512 mb video card, and get the Adobe Video
> Production CS3 Master collection bundle which includes almost all that I use
> now but in a CS3 version.
Putting off your purchase until you need to is always a good idea
especially in these days of such rapid hardware development.
Adobe CS3 looks downright superb value for money and I will no doubt be
purchasing one of the CS3 web/design packages.
>
> 2. Buy a Mac Pro desktop with dual 2.66 ghz Zeon processors, 4 gig ram, 512
> video card option and FCP Studio 2, plus also install Win XP and my current
> production software and upgrade those to Mac versions as I can afford it. I
> would eventually like to have my main production software (Photoshop, After
> Effects Pro, Flash, Premiere Pro) in Mac versions.
In production you'll probably not notice the difference between a 2.66
GHz processor and a 3.0 GHz processor but your wallet most certainly
will! I bought a refurbished Mac Pro 2.66, put 4 GB of 3rd party RAM in
it and saved myself a fortune. I shall be purchasing an 8 core Mac Pro
in the near future and set it up as a render farm for LW, Shake et al.
Installing XP on the Mac Pro is not problem at all and gives you all the
flexibility in the world. I dual boot into XP on our Mac Pro for
Lightwave but when LW9.2 is released and is stable I shall cross grade
to an Intel Mac version. I am not missing any application from my
toolkit by using Intel Macs in my business.
>
> Obviously, option 2 is more expensive, but the goal of my research in the
> next few months is to determine if it's worth it in term of stability and
> performance, and also feature set comparisons once Premiere Pro CS3
> information is available. I took a short course in FCP 5 studio so I am
> familiar now with its main features and am very impressed. It seems to have
> all of the features that I really like in Premiere Pro plus Avid and a few
> more, and the studio bundle software is also very impressive.
>
> I would appreciate anyone's advice on this, and thanks to all for their time
> and help.
>
>
You'll have to decide what it is you want from you suite of production
software and see whether Apple's or Adobe's suite offers a better fit
for your needs.
Just stay away from the PC vs Apple religious debate and you'll do
alright.
S
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