[Leica] mac upgrade

[leowesson at gmail.com (leo wesson)]

Brian,

Do you think that the speed increase would also apply to final cut?  BTW,
what monitor are you using?

My situation is that I want to get a new monitor (using a 19" lacie and
would like a larger one) and to get the 30" Apple, I would need to upgrade
the video card (currently using a dual 2 gig g5 w/5.5 gigs of ram) so I am
thinking about just getting a 24" Imac or a new tower.  An Imac would
certainly be cheaper but 1) have always been wary of all in 1's and 2) I
think the Imac screen is, not sure how to say this, deceptive.  Like my
laptop, it seems to make things look much better than they really are.  Just
not sure if I should do it now or wait for the next generation of tower.

Leo

On 10/22/07, Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote:
>
> I upgraded from a G5 tower to a Mac Pro tower. My Mac Pro tower has
> hardware
> RAID 5 and 7200RPM SATA2 disks. I notice a significant improvement in the
> speed at which it does CS3 and disk-related things (probably twice as fast
> in
> a big Image Processor job) and there is a small but perceptible
> improvement
> in other programs that I use a lot, such as InDesign and Emacs.
>
>
>
>
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