New FCP 5 will be Tiger dependent/required so it won't. Hopefully the dual dual 3 will ship by then = 12 GHz with Tiger. Don't order RAM until you know the speed you will ned for the next generation G5 announced at NAB. k On Apr 3, 2005, at 5:49 PM, Colt Freeman wrote: > Hey, > Awesome, thanks for all the info. So is the consensus to wait a bit > for the > OS to see if its stable enough for FCP? But if a new FCP is being > released > as well how will that factor in? My only problem is that I will need > it by > May 10th, since I'm starting a project then. I leave May 22nd for > Indonesia > to start filming a documentary about the relief workers there. Any > advice > would be appreciated. I would be purchasing a dual 2Ghz (best price to > power > ratio I think) and the academic FCP/DVDstudio/Motion package, I also > have > 2gb of ram on the way. > Thanks, > -Colt