Question about the Mac.

[Jrock6k]

Here it goes which mac is good for Video editing, I am thinking in the next few months to start editing my works on the Mac but I want something Cheap and useful. I seen an Emac at Compusa the other day which is cheap (guess Apple stopped making them) The Imac is to much money for me right now, so that brings me to the Mac mini do you guys think its good or should I just wait for a sale on the Imac? Thanks in advance!

[tokenuser]

Here it goes which mac is good for Video editing, I am thinking in the next few months to start editing my works on the Mac but I want something Cheap and useful. I seen an Emac at Compusa the other day which is cheap (guess Apple stopped making them) The Imac is to much money for me right now, so that brings me to the Mac mini do you guys think its good or should I just wait for a sale on the Imac? Thanks in advance!How about asking a different question?

Perhaps, I want to do video editting - what hardware do you recommend?

Macs are great video editing machines, but frustratingly slow unless you move to the higher end machines. For the same $$$, you could get a PC with outstanding capabilities for video editting.

I think the Mac Mini would be adequate, but thats about it - it wont be great. Also, the software you plan on using will make a difference - on the Mac, Final Cut Pro is pretty much the highend standard, while iLife's capabilitie are great hobbiest apps ... but you wont be able to run Final Cut on anything but a high end machine.

Also, consider your video source ... MiniDVD? Those slot load drives will eat them up and refuse to spit them out - so that media source is no benefit on most macs these days (but will work on tray loading PC drives). MiniDV (tape) and MiniDVD can also be transferred via IEE 1394 (Firewire), sure its a little slower than USB2, but has the advantage of higher sustained throughput speeds, and the ability to control the video camera form the software (USB connections cant do that).

SOOOOO ... dont target a Mac and ask if you can do X on it, look at what you want to do, and which machine is better suited to the task. It might still end up being a Mac.

[Jrock6k]

mmkay I am sorry for not re wording it...I see where your getting at though.

[alexsk8ca]

How much are you willing to spend?
My friend edited 2 whole short films on a PC with 256 mb RAM, no video card and an AMD Athlon 2200+ with video vegas, but it took him a very long time and was very frustrating.