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I need advice on buying a new FCP system/Mac
I need to buy a new mac and upgrade to a faster system.
I cant decide on buying the brand new mac (nahelem chip) or getting the version right before that.
Anyone have any advice on this?
Its not about price, I just heard from someone that its better to wait to see how things run before you buy the new system with the new chip
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Get the new one….its built for snow leopard.
also new hardware from Apple is not really the risk, its
updated versions of OS X, Quictime & Final Cut pro you want to
“wait and see” (and in that order)so many just blindly update for the sake of updating then things
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I don’t think that the chip will have anything to do with it. Apple wouldn’t release a chip that isn’t working with its flagship software package, and as for 3rd party stuff, while the architecture of the chip might change, its functionality usually isn’t an issue. You need to be more careful of software updates. Apple has been know to flub it once in a while with OS updates.
Faster is better, right? I just got an 8 core (previous gen, not the latest) and its crazy fast. That being said, I was moving up from a dual core 2.5 PPC machine. Its insanely fast at compression MPEG2 and H264’s, which I am doing more and more of. Just make sure you enable all the cores thorugh the qMaster preferences to take advantage of all the cores while using compressor.
Get the new one.
Matt
Its more fun to ride a slow motorcycle fast than a fast motorcycle slow…
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I’m in the same boat as you with a PPC dual. I’m Working with proRes HD files and the rendering is a killer. I hope rendering in general would be faster with the new systems. Doing a 10 sec. segment with two tracks of titles and a background takes around 10 minutes to render. Painfull.
The Two 2.26GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Nehalem” is the one I want to get and put 16 gigs of RAM in from OWC.
I am surprised that the refurb price for the old models are so high. The 2.8 is $2800.00 and the 3.2 is $4100.00. I dont get that. -
[Erik Naso] “The 2.8 is $2800.00 and the 3.2 is $4100.00. I dont get that.”
the latest/fastest cpu’s even if only by a few hundred megahertz are always much much
more even though the performance isn’t necessarily.it’s been that way since the beginning of the computer industry.
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Yup. But my point is since the new models came out the price on the refurbed former models stayed the same. I would think since they are former models the price would have gone down even more.
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