Re: Selling upgraded Macs

2011-06-16 Thread S T
This is so true, Joe. That's one reason I bought an iPad. It's great for email, browsing, movies/music. The G4 systems are just as usable, and they're stable, Macs don't have to worry about virii (often, and they're all on Intel-based systems anyway), so no repair costs there. And I still

Re: Hello! and question from a relative newbie

2011-06-14 Thread S T
Most of my main concern tends to be regarding capture cards... how to get the video INTO the program I'm using, whichever that one will be. I may be spoield coming from an all-Amiga background. And tehn again, I may eb facing the same hurdles I did with the Amiga: multi-thousand-dollar pieces

Re: Hello! and question from a relative newbie

2011-06-14 Thread S T
I honestly never understood the purpose behind a RAID setup. Maybe I dn't understand it, but it seems to me if you have 4 1 TB drives set up in a RAID you just have 1TB duplicated 4 times. Makes losing one or two drives meaningless in this case, and that's the point. But you're talking about 1

Re: Hello! and question from a relative newbie

2011-06-14 Thread S T
Well, I know where I'll be stopping tomorrow after work. And I've already got a head on a card, but will always keep options open for multiple cards :D Considering I've only been working with BNC-connectors for inputs, even Firewire would be an improvement. On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 9:06 PM,

Re: Hello! and question from a relative newbie

2011-06-14 Thread S T
now what kind of video camera doesn't have a fiewire port? I wouldn't get one that didn't, in other words. I'm aware some might not suport it. On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:09 PM, M Christol chris...@fuse.net wrote: On 6/14/11 1:13 PM, S T wrote: Most of my main concern tends to be regarding

Hello! and question from a relative newbie

2011-06-13 Thread S T
Hi all :) Thank you for accepting me into the mailing list! I've been an Apple devotee ever since Commodore went bankrupt in 1993, both using the M68K chips and later the PPC chips. The thing I like about PPC is it's still Motorola at heart. And until recntly I worked for Apple. I juwst