Looking to buy soon!

[Pollic02]

Hey everyone,

Its time for me to buy a new mac! Ive been waiting for lion to be released so the time is coming near. Anyway my budget is around $2,500 and ill mostly be working with adobe suite/fcs editing hd footage and maybe some 3D footage soon. So here are my options so far...keep in mind I will be adding 16 gb to each set up within a few months of purchase:

21.5 in 2.8 i7 w/ 1 tb + 256 SSD or

27 in. 3.4 i7 w/ 2GB graphics card or

wait for base model new mac pro and load with ram.

Your thoughts?

 

[soco]

I say go with the upcoming iPod Nano. Call me crazy, but I sense something up their sleeves. Or rather, below it just under the cuff.

SeewhereI'mgoingwiththis?

 

[MacVibe]

A nano may fit his needs perfectly, who knows?

 

[darknite38]

The iPod Shuffle baseline 2gb refurbished may be his best bet!

 

[Pollic02]

the new nano can run fcs? maybe ill save my money and just get that. thanks!

 

[baysmith]

Go with the SSD option for best performance. The 27" is perfect for CS work.

 

[omicron]

Are you going to do CG? IF any software you use WILL take advantage of a graphics card for rendering output then go with the graphics card.

Although I will say that SSDs are quite nice. They cut my Windows boot time from 3 minutes to 30 seconds. This is from power on to actually being able to click on something and load that program.

 

[Pollic02]

Right now im leaning towards the better graphics, and my reason/question is this...If I wait for an external ssd with thunderbolt, can I boot osx and run apps from the ssd and use the internal hdd for storage?

 

[FrankHahn]

With $2,500, you can go with a base model of Mac Pro if you have a display.

 

[Pollic02]

yeah idk if i can wait much longer! maybe if i knew the definite specs of the new mac pro it might convince me to wait