Posted by nobody special on 09/23/06 19:37

I run Motion on a liquid-cooled dual-processor mac tower with a gig of
ram, and it STILL seems slow. Awesome, but slow. I don't think you
will ever be truly happy on an imac if your work will be graphics and
render-intensive. I would go with a tower if i had the choice. Screen
wise, if you have an external monitor setup, the screen size of the
imac or tower is not a deal breaker for simple edits where you can
close unneeded windows and enlarge the workspace as you need to. That
said, I use two of the second-largest mac montiors side by side for my
stuff, plus a Tv output monitor.

Be careful the software will run on your new mac: I think maybe the
newer intel-chipped ones require a revised copy of FCP.

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