[Christopher Levin]

Thanks guys – I think the work I will be getting for now will mostly be editing for the time being. I am indeed leaning toward the iMac. Like you said, Al, I would consider the loss a “rental” cost if I trade up in the future. Kevin: you are right, there is not much of a price difference even if I buy a used Mac pro. I assume if I get a job at a post production house here in Minneapolis I might not need a workstation at home, and if so it would be easier to justify and upgrade a year and a half from now with that fat paycheck I’ll be gettin (insert sarcasm).

To be honest, I have been a bit torn considering the Windows option, but I’ve been through it once before, and came up with an HP laptop with a corei7 (although less than a gig processor speed), 8g of ram, and even an Nvidia gfx card which is cuda enabled, but it just can’t give realtime playback on a multi-camera edit in premiere pro. I’ve watched it go from a nice machine to a space heater in the 2.5 years I’ve had it. Now that I’ve had a taste of the Mac workstations at the school labs I’m afraid its too late for me: once you go Mac…
Well this just got awkward.
Thanks again for your input, guys!

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