On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Aug 17, 2012, at 7:54 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:41 AM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> ... and NO, not a Mac either. I ain't in no mood to spend $3,000 for a >>> $500 machine! >> >> Not trying to convince ya, but that's an old trope. Time to update >> your assumptions. > > The price for what you get between Mac and Windows boxes isn't nearly > as great as it used to be. The problem is that it just isn't worth Apple's > time to make a desktop box that costs less than $3,000,
Base 4-core Mac Pro box: $2500. > and I'd really > like to be able to cram a lot more storage in my computer, rather than > having it hang off the outside. > > Granted, USB 3 looks like it makes a huge difference. I'm not into desk-side boxes anymore. I don't care to open those things up, fight with cabling, vacuum dust out of fans and off of boards to prevent heat buildup, etc. That said, if I was editing video professionally I'd be looking seriously at a 12-core Mac Pro for sure. A base iMac for $1200 plus an external Firewire or Thunderbolt drive or two as time goes by is a very powerful system. Add an external rotatable monitor for photo editing (can't beat a 2-monitor setup) and the world's your oyster. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
