[MacDV] Final Cut Upgrades + New Macs

[rgb at ellerbach.com]

On Tue, May 8, 2007 1:07 pm, Steve Robertson wrote:
> Hi again -
>
> For years, I edited a lot of video using an iMac 800KHz with 768 MB
> ram and the original Final Cut Express. After a layoff, I'm getting
> back into video editing. At the moment, I'm trying to use a Mac Mini
> 1.4 GHz with 512MB ram and Final Cut Express HD 3.0. This combo
> works, but it seems to be much more sluggish than the old setup.
>
> Since it's costly to increase the ram in a Mini, I'm thinking about
> trying to move my video editing to my MacBook with the original Intel
> cpu. I can easily upgrade this machine to 2 GB ram.

You're probably right that it is the RAM that's causing the sluggishness.

Actually, upgrading the memory in a mini is not all that bad. My wife
bought one with minimum memory and I, using the instructions from a web
site, opened the box up and upgraded the memory to 2GB.

Rich