The New iMac G5

[thatmariolover]

Originally Posted by Rubber Kitty

This of course is presuming that you get the higher-end stuff like the 160gig drive vs. the 80gig. God knows how much RAM the thing comes with too, plus lots of the old presumptions about Macs being better at things like music and video editing are severly outdated. And if you think you're gonna escape OS problems by going Mac then you're sorely mistaken.

Macs are expensive ornaments. Sorry to all the Mac-heads

Yeah. Somehow I doubt you've used OS X, but if you have I'd inquire what you didn't like about it. And an 80 gig hard drive is going to be fine for people doing video editing. I got along on 12GB just fine for years. You're not going to have a slew of games taking up a gig a piece on you're Mac (for better or worse), so space isn't such an issue.

I agree, it could use a RAM upgrade, but Mac OS X is generally very efficient when it comes to RAM allocations (*ix systems in general).

As for the Mac's not being better for music and video editing is completely bogus. The software Mac's come with are awesome - iLife comes with GarageBand. Some of the best music arranging software ever created. Not to mention Final Cut isn't available for PC, and I personally hate working with anything else.

But whatever. To each his/her own.

[Rubber Kitty]

Originally Posted by thatmariolover

Yeah. Somehow I doubt you've used OS X, but if you have I'd inquire what you didn't like about it. And an 80 gig hard drive is going to be fine for people doing video editing. I got along on 12GB just fine for years. You're not going to have a slew of games taking up a gig a piece on you're Mac (for better or worse), so space isn't such an issue.

I agree, it could use a RAM upgrade, but Mac OS X is generally very efficient when it comes to RAM allocations (*ix systems in general).

As for the Mac's not being better for music and video editing is completely bogus. The software Mac's come with are awesome - iLife comes with GarageBand. Some of the best music arranging software ever created. Not to mention Final Cut isn't available for PC, and I personally hate working with anything else.

But whatever. To each his/her own.

I ain't even gonna get started on a discussion about this or it'll go on for months

I'll just say that I've used plenty of PC software and I've used plenty of Mac software but the number of options available on the PC side on its own is more than enough to keep me there. Macs are, for the most part, nice if you want sheer simplicity, but try to go any farther and you hit a ceiling pretty quick. Just my experience, though

[GameMaster]

Originally Posted by Rubber Kitty

Macs are, for the most part, nice if you want sheer simplicity, but try to go any farther and you hit a ceiling pretty quick. Just my experience, though

Final Cut Pro, Shake, and Logic Pro are some of the most complex and powerful applications in existance. They're used by some of Hollywood's biggest hot shots. But if I put you behind one of those applications, you wouldn't be able to find your way out of a paper bag. So you just sit down now.

[Rubber Kitty]

Originally Posted by GameMaster

Final Cut Pro, Shake, and Logic Pro are some of the most complex and powerful applications in existance. They're used by some of Hollywood's biggest hot shots. But if I put you behind one of those applications, you wouldn't be able to find your way out of a paper bag. So you just sit down now.

You'd be pretty mistaken to assume that I've never used them before. And quite extensively