I know I'm an opinionated prick, LOL, however... Reading this thread makes me realize the beauty of the Apple platform. I'm not anti-PC, but sorry Windows, too many nightmares. Ugh. Made the switch to mac (G3) in 1998 and never looked back. Let's face it: Windows is a business platform for Word, email, Don't ask it to do creative unless you are willing to spend upwards of 6 grand for a work station, even then you're stuck with Vista? Which of the many flavors? What cards; video, audio, graphics, will/won't work with it this time? And it goes on and on, you know it to be true, I know it too because I trouble shoot for a post house using both platforms. I can tell you the PC is rarely firing on all cylinders, even the Avid. They NEVER edit on a PC with a client present. Nothing says, "I SUCK" like a crash while a client is in the room. Save up, get an iMac with Apple's 100 dpi 24" cinema display. That's how you get HD on the web! I do give high regards to Pinnacle software for stability. The joke is: Only crashed twice today? Can't yet be lunchtime. If you'd like to read a iMac vs. Dell XPS One you can make to jump to: hd2o.tv/flog » Dell XPS One: compete with iMac
Regards,
Regards,