[Adam Clarkson]

Hi, thanks for the reply, keep me posted re the testing, I havnt purchased anything yet as I am weighing up the options for my budget, regards, Adam

[Adam Clarkson]

Hi Walter,
Can you point me in the direction of finding out more information about this – basically I want to buy and run an imac wth FCP connected with firewire RAID and with Video SDI monitoring/ capability of SDI video+audio playout to external recorder (Kona?).

The projects are for publishing on the web and DVD, real time monitoring is my main concern.

I had hoped that there would be a workaround the new iMacs not having an expansion slot enabling both data access and external monitoring, so was excited when I saw your post.

I had hoped to buy an iMac which would give the best performance (for the money) and have been led to believe that this is the Quad Core i7 and am looking at 8gb RAM. You mentioned jumbo frames – if I am working with footage captured on an EX1 1920 x 1080/50i (for archive purposes) are the ethernet limitations still relevant or even what would be the best set up?

Any information you can give I am sure will be helpful
Regards,

Adam