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Thanks, Jack. That worked for a bit — it let me into Compressor long enough to set up a file to submit, but once I did, it gave an error message that says “Unable to connect to background process” .. any thoughts on this one?? Thanks again…

-Adrianne

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Jason,

Thank you for your reply!! My mind is made up to go with the G5 and just max its RAM out. I really don’t need the bells and whistles at all, I just didn’t want to drop $1500-$2500 on an “obsolete” machine when it’s quite difficult for me to part with that kind of cash to begin with. Just wanted to make a wise investment. And I think I’m going to. Thanks again to you and everyone who has answered my original post in this thread. You all are the reason that I have and will continue to turn to the Cow for all my editorial/techie needs 🙂

Take care and have a good night everyone!

-Adrianne

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Jeff,

You’ve been extremely helpful. Thank you for breaking it down the way you did. I appreciate all of your advice. It seems like I am leaning more and more towards the G5 until I can upgrade to the Intel properly.

-Adrianne

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Steve,

Thanks for your reply as well. This may be an ignorant question, so please forgive me if it is, but do the Intel Macs come with Rosetta as part of the software bundle or is that an additional cost I should consider if buying an Intel computer?

I may use P2 cards down the line, and I know that would require a newer version of FCP that supports them, but for now the majority of my clients use MiniDV so this is not a problem right now.

Thank you both for your replies and please anyone else who has an opinion feel free to chime in. I’m looking for all the feedback I can get to make sure I make a good choice here.

Thank you!
-Adrianne

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Jeff,

Thank you for your reply. So am I right in assuming that my current software would be useless in the new Intels?

Right now, unfortunately it WOULD be way too much financially to get the computer AND software. But I’d like to think that the increase from the G4 to the G5 would increase my productivity (and income) enough that down the line I could get the new Intel, software and all.

Or perhaps I’ll just win the lottery tonight and get on with it! 🙂

-Adrianne