How much CPU / GPU to effortlessly edit native AVCHD?

[Kristian Tigersjäl]

That’s life I guess… and mac’s are expensive, not always with good reason! it’s premium stuff that’s just the way it is!

The iMac limitations in expansions is something that angers me aswell… but the only option would be mac pro and that is just going too far price-wise for me. Even then I’m not sure you can change cpu and you can certainly not change motherboard if that one goes out (or a component therein as isn’t unusual).

So the difference isn’t huge really there, the only thing that can be changed or added on a mac pro that is useful and can’t be done on an imac is the graphics card but on the other hand this isn’t a huge deal for me so I’ll just have to go with an iMac.

I initially aimed for building a hackintosh but it was just hopeless to make something work nicely and get stable there.