Need to receive a PowerMac by August 23rd so need advice in several areas. First, the system will be used primarily for video editing with Final Cut Pro HD, and Photoshop. My son is a high school student and will be taking a video editing class with FCP so he'll be using it a lot. Also, we're Americans living in London and my son plans on playing basket ball in college so we need to create a recruiting video of him since no coaches will see him here in London. We're both novices but plan on becoming competent users, but not power users. However, i don't want to upgrade later. I prefer to buy the right product now that we can grow into. Questions.
1. Since the 2.5 isn't available by August 23rd i was going to put dual 2.0. Hopefully this is adequate. How much additional memory should i put in for very good performance on FCP? Reading boards i think i'll buy from crucial.
2. what video card should i get? 5200, 9600, or 9800? Is there a big difference between 9600 and 9800?
3. I don't like the price, but is the 30in monitor something I wish i had gotten once we become proficient in FCP or is the 23" going to more than adequate.
4. What's an excellent quality speaker system to go with system? OR, with the new airport express it seems like it might be better to just hook up an external stero system of high quality that i can use with the powermac and seperately as well. Is this right? Also, can you only use the the airport express connected speakers with i-tunes or can i play all sound through the speakers attached to Airport express?
Thanks for taking the time to respond.
Dan
1. Since the 2.5 isn't available by August 23rd i was going to put dual 2.0. Hopefully this is adequate. How much additional memory should i put in for very good performance on FCP? Reading boards i think i'll buy from crucial.
2. what video card should i get? 5200, 9600, or 9800? Is there a big difference between 9600 and 9800?
3. I don't like the price, but is the 30in monitor something I wish i had gotten once we become proficient in FCP or is the 23" going to more than adequate.
4. What's an excellent quality speaker system to go with system? OR, with the new airport express it seems like it might be better to just hook up an external stero system of high quality that i can use with the powermac and seperately as well. Is this right? Also, can you only use the the airport express connected speakers with i-tunes or can i play all sound through the speakers attached to Airport express?
Thanks for taking the time to respond.
Dan