[MacDV] Best specs for DV - iMac or G4?

[Shirley Kehr]

Just a comment about an additional optical drive: I have the older A03
super drive in my dual 500. Yesterday I burned two CDs of about 600 MB
each. It took about 7 minutes per CD. That's acceptable for me. What I
find slow about the super drive is the time it takes to display what's
on a data DVD. For that reason, I'd recommend a combo drive as an extra.
However, I don't have any experience with combo drives, so perhaps
someone who does may say that they are slow displaying DVDs with a lot
of data too.

Shirley

P.S. I also feel that you can never have too much memory. It's just more
expensive to max out a computer with the DDR RAM. At least the 2100
sticks are a bit less expensive than those needed in the higher end models.



Anthony Stolarek wrote:
> 
> I want to commence video editing with a package (call me advanced amateur)
> which my 12yo daughter can also use, w Superdrive.
> 
> I've decided it's either an iMac or G4. Reading the posts it seems to me
> that an iMac has the issues with taking a long time to encode.
> 
> Does a g4 (twin 867)encode faster? If so is that what I should optimally
> buy?
> 
> Also, with G4 should I:
> - buy an additional CD burner which is faster than superdrive
> - buy more memory?
> 
> Any other best buys for the first setup?
> 
> regards
> 
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