Mac or PC

[Elan Gunos]

Been a big long time supporter of Macs, but I get the impression they're not focusing too much on the pro stuff, and with the untimely passing away of big guy Steve, I'm a little unsure of what's going to happen with the future of Apple. JMHO.

[Brian Iannone]

Mac + PP.

If you mean Mac + PC, I agree. Either one by itself can't do everything I (and most other people) need to do. Having both (i.e. a Mac Pro and a Windows workstation) is the only solution, in my opinion.

[Cid J Salcido Uyarra]

You can Build an amazing PC and a Mid-Range iMac (High-End 21'' or Low-End 27'') still spend less than a Mac Pro and have the best of both worlds. That's at least how I roll. Every job is different and the market continues to change being prepared and well versed in both areas is never a bad idea.

[John Bannister]

Hey Chris,

This was always going to be an interesting question. Here is what I know.

I have to go with PC but this is only true since the release of 64 bit support for Adobe After Effects and Sony Vegas Pro. I can not stress to highly the performance increases in AE and Vegas now that they take advantage of the true 64bit multi-core processing of the AMD CPUs.

I use these two packages together and with the release of Vegas 11 Pro and it's native support for red raw files, you can literally drag and drop .r3ds directly into the time line and start cutting. I can now edit at full resolution of the clip where as before I would have used 1/2 or less.

As for AE...wow! I kept my original CS4 version and installed the CS 5.5 as a standalone for comparison, I was pleased I did as I was able to open the same compositions and in each application test the time to render them in cue. The results blew me away. The 64 bit version was four times faster than CS 4. And I was able to composit at much higher render settings. Needless to say, I uninstalled CS 4 and sold it.

So to recap, I love my PC system but only with the following configuration:
Op = Windows Ultimate 7, 64bit Edition
CPU = AMD Quad, Black, 64 bit Architecture
Sony Vegas 11 Pro (native support for red raw)
Adobe AE 5.5

My name is John and I am a PC ;)

[Noah Yuan-Vogel]

Hah I'd think the one thing most would agree on would be Intel cpus, but apparently not. I'd love to go back to and one day but their product seem to be consistently inferior and not worth the trouble. Their new 12core cpus sound cool, but it seems they are outperformed by Intel's 6core cpus.

[Noah Yuan-Vogel]

You can Build an amazing PC and a Mid-Range iMac (High-End 21'' or Low-End 27'') still spend less than a Mac Pro and have the best of both worlds. That's at least how I roll. Every job is different and the market continues to change being prepared and well versed in both areas is never a bad idea.

I'd worry that would be the best of neither worlds since you're stuck deciding if you want more speed or the os/software you prefer for a task. If you need osx and speed, get an expensive mac pro, they will run windows... if you don't need osx, build a PC and get twice the performance for half the cost. On the other hand a mac and a PC might make sense if you'll benefit more from two slower workstations.

[Sven Seynaeve]

wouldn't it be nice, if Smoke got ported to win aswell, could see a lot of potential then.

[Sven Seynaeve]

wouldn't it be nice, if Smoke got ported to win aswell, could see a lot of potential then.