[MacDV] Re: What Computer

Sat Apr 19 05:41:01 PDT 2003

If I wanted to buy mac gear I would have logged onto eBays site !
Kindly refrain from using this site as an opportunity to sell your gear.

On Friday, Apr 18, 2003, at 16:28 Europe/London, Geno Kearney wrote:

> Okay, folks.
>
> Here's the deal and its a good one. My iMac is:
>
> 800 mhz 15" flat panel
> 60gb hard drive
> 1gb memory installed by Apple at factory
> Superdrive included.
>
> If you go to Apples site and get the 15" with 1 gb its 1699.00 WITHOUT 
> the
> superdrive.
>
> I'll sell for $1,200 with the Superdrive and the 1gb. I'll box it in 
> its
> original carton and pay the shipping. I've upgraded to OS10.2.4, but 
> will
> use the restore disk and send it back to its factory state of 10.1, 
> but I'll
> include
> Apples 10.2.3 upgrade disc.
> I'll of course also include all the original restore and software 
> disks.
> I'll also include the UFO I got from XtremeMac. It's
> a base the iMac sits on that adds extra USB and Firewire ports. See it 
> at
> .....  http://www.xtrememac.com/formac/ufo.shtml . I think its a great 
> deal
> especially considering you can now only get the superdrive in the 17" 
> 1 ghz
> model. That model configured with my 1 gb memory is $2,199.00. So to 
> get the
> 1gb memory and a superdrive you'd have to spend $1,000 more.
>
> You'd need to send a cashiers check, but I would get it ready when you 
> said
> it was a go and ship it asap. If you're concerned about me, check my 
> ebay
> feedback. I'm a buyer only, and my rating is a perfect 218 (last I 
> checked).
> My ebay ID is genoZ11 (from a car I used to have).
> I'm also a regular on the list. I just didn't realize how deep into the
> movie making with effects I would be getting into. I'm going to move 
> to a
> dual 1.42 powermac. Thanks.
>
> Geno
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "BigScanner.com" <terry at bigscanner.com>
> To: "Geno Kearney" <geno.kearney at mindspring.com>
> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 11:12 AM
> Subject: Re: OFFLIST Re: What Computer
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Geno Kearney" <geno.kearney at mindspring.com>
> To: "Macintosh Digital Video List" <MacDV at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 10:29 AM
> Subject: [MacDV] Re: What Computer
>
>
>> I'll go one further. If you decide to go with an 800mhz, flat panel, 
>> make
> me
>> an offer. I'm ready to upgrade.
>>
>> Geno
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Geno Kearney" <geno.kearney at mindspring.com>
>> To: "Macintosh Digital Video List" <MacDV at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 10:14 AM
>> Subject: [MacDV] Re: What Computer
>>
>>
>>> My .02
>>>
>>> I have an 800 mhz flat panel, 1 gig memory. I use iMovie, iDVD. If I 
>>> had
> a
>>> do-over, I'd go as strong as I could with a powermac. I spend too 
>>> much
>> time
>>> waiting on the processing. If you can afford it, go overkill.
>>>
>>> Geno
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Michael Winter" <winter at mac.com>
>>> To: "Macintosh Digital Video List" <MacDV at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
>>> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 9:47 AM
>>> Subject: [MacDV] Re: What Computer
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday, April 17, 2003, at 12:22  AM, Charles Martin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Really pretty hard to say based on such a bare description, but I
>>>>> guess I'd recommend a 15" or 17" flat-panel iMac with Superdrive. 
>>>>> An
>>>>> eMac might also do the job, and costs significantly less, but isn't
> as
>>>>> cool. :)
>>>>
>>>> I'll second that.
>>>>
>>>> It really depends on what she wants to do. Our iMac DV (400 MHz G3,
> 512
>>>> MB RAM) is sufficient for video capture, simple editing, and 
>>>> exporting
>>>> back to camera.
>>>>
>>>> OTOH, if you apply a lot of effects, export to Quicktime or use 
>>>> iDVD,
>>>> I'd recommend a 1 GHz or faster G4. In general the iMac won't be
>>>> significantly slower than a dual-processor system with the same 
>>>> clock
>>>> speed since I've yet to find an operation that actually uses both
>>>> processors (the caveat being if you want to do something else with 
>>>> the
>>>> computer while iMovie is churning away dual processors rock!). I 
>>>> found
>>>> out last weekend that I can even capture video and play computer 
>>>> games
>>>> simultaneously on my dual 1 GHz box (just don't put the game in
>>>> full-screen mode where it switches to a monitor resolution iMovie
>>>> doesn't like).
>>>>
>>>> -Mike
>>>>
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