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I am graduating from college in the coming months and I am looking to get either a 15" Alum PB (FW800) or the last model PM G4 (FW800) ASAP. I will be mainly running FCP 3 and eventually version 4, DVD Studio Pro and Adobe software (PS, Illus, etc). Will I be sacrificing too much power for portability with the PowerBook? Portability may be a factor in the near future, but I mainly edit in my room.
I have an external dvd-rw that I can interchange with my current computers so a superdrive is not really necessary (not until they get up to 8x and more like 16x)
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
Also- I'm not considering a G5 at this time; waiting for the first or second revision before I spend 4 grand on a complete G5 system (Can't wait =])
jb.
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Hello.
If you're going to be mainly editing in your room, then frankly, there is little reason to get a PowerBook. While they are great machines, there really is a definate performance gap between them and the G4 Power Macs. Not only the actual clock speed difference, but the lower powered graphics processors, and slower hard drives. Both of which, combined with the clock speed difference, give the Dual processor Power Macs a substantial advantage in speed, especially in video editing. Now, I am not saying that the PowerBook G4 is not fast enough for video editing, but you need to decide if it is fast enough to justify the premium for portability.
That said, you would love a Dual 1.25 Power Mac, or a Dual 1.42 (If you can find one). We may now have G5s, but the G5 by no means makes the G4 slow, especially not a Dual 1.25 or Dual 1.42.
My 'lowly' 933MHz G4 Power Mac does everything I throw at it, and I love the machine. I will probably pick up a Dual 1.33GHz processor upgrade for it before I go G5 since I already have so much invested in the machine by way of upgrades. In addition, the G5 isn't performing at it's potential yet because very little is actually optomized for the architecture. So, in that respect, there is little reason to get a G5 now if you do not need it. Especially considering that at this moment in the G5s life, being that it is new and in it's first revision, the $ per GHz ratio is higher than it will ever be.
Whatever you decide to get, you are going to absolutely love it. All of Apples current offerings are great, it's hard to go wrong. 
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Originally posted by jblaze:
I am graduating from college in the coming months and I am looking to get either a 15" Alum PB (FW800) or the last model PM G4 (FW800) ASAP. I will be mainly running FCP 3 and eventually version 4, DVD Studio Pro and Adobe software (PS, Illus, etc). Will I be sacrificing too much power for portability with the PowerBook? Portability may be a factor in the near future, but I mainly edit in my room.
I have an external dvd-rw that I can interchange with my current computers so a superdrive is not really necessary (not until they get up to 8x and more like 16x)
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
Also- I'm not considering a G5 at this time; waiting for the first or second revision before I spend 4 grand on a complete G5 system (Can't wait =])
jb.
If you are doing video there is no need for a Burner that fast. If you burn slower the video will be better. I would get the Powerbook and max out the RAM
(Last edited by typoon; Jan 14, 2004 at 09:42 AM.
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