Thanks to everyone who responded. Now I feel better about making this investment.
Hope y'all had a great day!!! Linda --- In [email protected], Lee Menningen <l_menningen@...> wrote: > > No need to switch to a Mac unless you have a compelling reason to do so. > There are a lot of Mac religionists out there, but when you become competent > with them both, it will gradually dawn on you that the Mac OS merely does a > few similar things in a slightly different way. In addition, Adobe software > has a high % of sameness between the two OS's (but because of the OS, there > are differences). > > Regarding Intel processors, there is a certain amount of overlap between the > various models of i5 and i7 - one can't just say i5 or i7 without > identifying specific models. However, I think only one i5 model performs > hyper-threading, a feature you will definitely want, whereas all the i7 > 9xx's have it (the i7-8xx's do not). Also most i7's have larger cache's. Of > course, the price varies wildly between models. > > A PC allows you superior hardware configuration options, and for video > editing you might be most successful using a fast hyper-threaded quad (or > hex) processor, three HD's, 12GB or 16GB memory, and an NVidia graphics card > with sufficient memory so its CUDA cores can be used by Premiere and After > Effects. > > Lee > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of cr8dbygod > Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2011 9:53 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [AP] Re: Need new computer > > > Morning! > > Okay thanks for this information. I will see what I can put together. I was > able to stabilize the laptop I'm using right now to buy me some time but I > do want to take advantage of current sales going on. > > So ... here's something I just thought of. Should I consider getting into a > Mac instead? I've never used one but figure now would be the time to make > the switch. > > Sorry to go totally off in another direction. > > Thanks! > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
