Cool. I think then the macbook pro will be a sweet treat as long as my G5 will hold out. Having the 2 would be good - to speed up Quicktime conversion.
Oh, what size should I get. I have a 17 inch PC laptop. It¹s pretty big and heavy and though I love the screen size, portability is lost. So many decisions. I used to have good luck with Lacie harddrives but I just got a 1 Terrabyte Porsche on sale really cheap at Futureshop and it has caused my Mac to crash on numerous occasions. I think it blew something it¹s acting weird. I tried to run Onyx and it said I need to repair the start up disc. I don¹t know how to do that, so need to call someone in because I have enough stuff to learn and that kind of stuff scares me. I am now thinking of upgrading to Leopard. Does that make sense. Or do I have to repair the disk first? Argh. I only like computers when they work ;) Oh, and thanks for your reply. Will check newegg. Irene I use a MacBook Pro for all of my editing. But I'll soon be upgrading to a MacPro tower. My MBP is a couple of years old but still reliably handles Final Cut Pro and my HD footage. It's not the fastest of the bunch, but it does its job. A brand new MBP should be fine, so long as you don't need to do much rendering or effects work. You can only upgrade the RAM so much on the laptops, they eventually fizzle out in terms of abilities to tackle HD, etc. after a couple years and there's no upgrade path for them. The G5 should actually be enough, provided you have some good RAM in there, for HD needs. I don't recommend any heavy duty editing on a laptop because, like me, you'll get tied into so many external drives and devices that being mobile is the furthest thing from your mind. :) I've had good luck with Lacie external drives -- knock on wood. I have four so far and they are all running great. Price and performance tends to be good for them. There are some other more expensive models that have more solid track records. Check out Newegg.com and list models by rating and read some customer reviews. Good luck! Dom http://blog.gadzookfilms.com http://twitter.com/gadzook http://store.gadzookfilms.com . [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
