I am now looking at the following for basically a full rehaul to get back into my heavy hobby of photo editing, converting LOADS of family vhs to digital, FCPX and perhaps eventual logic or ProTools software to support Hubsbands indie music.
Which option do you suggest- Option 1, Option 2 or Option 3?
$5K is really the max - could maybe swing tad bit more for all said and done IF it would REALLY make a difference. I want to do it right, but not overkill. I have a fast learning curve. I would be upset if what I got became not enough in 3 years I know it is inevitable (change), but if I can purchase something that can make it another year or two past the other or norm that would be ideal.
Option 1:
27-inch iMac
3.5GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.9GHz
32GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 4X8GB
3TB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200 rpm (I read that I should stay away from Fusion with FCPX??)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 4GB GDDR5
Apple Magic Mouse
Apple Wireless Keyboard (English) & User's Guide
Pages, Numbers, Keynote iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand
OS X
Final Cut Pro X
Compressor
Motion 5
Aperture
Apple Thunderbolt Cable (0.5 m) - White
G-Tech 8TB G-RAID Thunderbolt Hard Drive
Total w/estimated Tax: ~$4,713
Separate purchase 110 Video converter - $200
All said and Done: ~$4913
OR
Option 2:
Mac Pro
Hardware
3.7GHz quad-core with 10MB of L3 cache
12GB (3x4GB) of 1866MHz DDR3 ECC
256GB PCIe-based flash storage
Dual AMD FirePro D300 GPUs with 2GB of GDDR5 VRAM each
Software
Pages, Numbers, Keynote
iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand
OS X
Final Cut Pro X
Compressor
Motion 5
Aperture
Apple Magic Mouse (I have unused keyboard need mouse)
G-Tech 8TB G-RAID Thunderbolt Hard Drive
Apple Thunderbolt Cable (0.5 m) - White
Total cost w/est tax: $4,695
$200 110 vhs digital converter
$300 budget for monitor (i.e. ASUS VS278Q-P 27" Full HD LED Monitor)
Total $5094
Option 3 - What would you design at/near $5k? (Mac based/FXPX/External storage and backup)
Which option do you suggest- Option 1, Option 2 or Option 3?
$5K is really the max - could maybe swing tad bit more for all said and done IF it would REALLY make a difference. I want to do it right, but not overkill. I have a fast learning curve. I would be upset if what I got became not enough in 3 years I know it is inevitable (change), but if I can purchase something that can make it another year or two past the other or norm that would be ideal.
Option 1:
27-inch iMac
3.5GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.9GHz
32GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 4X8GB
3TB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200 rpm (I read that I should stay away from Fusion with FCPX??)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 4GB GDDR5
Apple Magic Mouse
Apple Wireless Keyboard (English) & User's Guide
Pages, Numbers, Keynote iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand
OS X
Final Cut Pro X
Compressor
Motion 5
Aperture
Apple Thunderbolt Cable (0.5 m) - White
G-Tech 8TB G-RAID Thunderbolt Hard Drive
Total w/estimated Tax: ~$4,713
Separate purchase 110 Video converter - $200
All said and Done: ~$4913
OR
Option 2:
Mac Pro
Hardware
3.7GHz quad-core with 10MB of L3 cache
12GB (3x4GB) of 1866MHz DDR3 ECC
256GB PCIe-based flash storage
Dual AMD FirePro D300 GPUs with 2GB of GDDR5 VRAM each
Software
Pages, Numbers, Keynote
iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand
OS X
Final Cut Pro X
Compressor
Motion 5
Aperture
Apple Magic Mouse (I have unused keyboard need mouse)
G-Tech 8TB G-RAID Thunderbolt Hard Drive
Apple Thunderbolt Cable (0.5 m) - White
Total cost w/est tax: $4,695
$200 110 vhs digital converter
$300 budget for monitor (i.e. ASUS VS278Q-P 27" Full HD LED Monitor)
Total $5094
Option 3 - What would you design at/near $5k? (Mac based/FXPX/External storage and backup)