Thanks guys, that clears it up. What I really want is to be able to monitor and grade basically on an external LCD monitor such as panasonics TH-50PF10UK as well as run the heavy 3d software and be able to deal with some red footage. I know this is alot to ask but I figured that 8 core 2.26 Nehalem mac with the kona 3 and a ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB.
what do you wreckon
cheers sam