…”and live to tell about it.” haha. true true.
mine is the 2.4ghz 4gb of ram. i did put a 320gb 7200 hard drive in it and that made it a bit faster. not that i edit off the internal. i have a g-raid fw800.
I really don’t mind editing on it. I have a usb keyboard, mouse and 23″ display attached to it. bigger display is a must. other than that it works fine for FCP and AE. its just slower rendering.
The only reason i have this is for portability. If you don’t need a notebook you might look into getting an earlier macpro (1,1 or 2,1). I think they go for around $1,500 on ebay.
andrew