[CUBE] Cube Hardware Upgrade Options for Video Editing.

[Thubten Kunga]

Processor upgrade, Maximum RAM and 120 GB HD are the three most 
important to me. Keep in mind that the 120 GB 8MB buffer Western 
Digital Special Edition HDs are now only $80 at Circuit City. Last week 
they were $70 at Office Max. So that's not much out of pocket to 
maximize your internal HD. A single 1.2 GHz G4 upgrade from Sonnet is 
$578 at OWC so that's the most expensive thing. And RAM is fairly 
inexpensive. Shouldn't cost more than $69-$79 right now for each 512MB 
stick. So the RAM and the HD are very inexpensive compared to the 
processor upgrade.

k

On Monday, May 5, 2003, at 06:16  PM, RICARDO wrote:

> I am looking to upgrade my Cube to make video editing on iMovie3 and 
> Final
> Cut Express more efficient and productive.  Does anyone have any 
> thoughts as
> to which hardware component should be the better target for my upgrade
> bucks: Hard Drive, Video Card or CPU Card?  I cannot afford to upgrade 
> all
> three, and if I can get away with upgrading just one of these I'd be a 
> happy
> camper, but if I need to upgrade two of them I may be able to stretch 
> my
> wallet if necessary.  But which component to upgrade, that is the 
> question.