I've never used Final Cut, but I hear it is really good and easy also. As far as "hassles of a PC", not sure what you mean there Tone I built my PC myself and it runs like a champ, no hassles to speak of other than trying to cram as much into one case as possible!!

Mac or PC, Pepsi or Coke, manual or automatic, its just a matter of personal preference I think, and somewhat also what you have learned on. Also, I think if you are not very computer literate, you may want to go with a Mac, as most people who are not computer savvy find them more intuitive. I myself have been using PCs all my life, and I like the flexibility and customizability (is that a word?) of PCs. Macs are too proprietary and too limited in my opinion. But then again, I haven't messed around on a Mac in several years, and I know they have come A LONG way as far as compatibility goes.


Bart

Quote Originally Posted by Tone
Final Cut Pro and DVD Pro kick but on Premier. Heck, even with iMovie, you can kick out a professional movie without the hassles of a PC. Oh yeah, and you'll have to BUY Premier for $150 - the Mac is ready to do it all right out of the box. A laptop would not be my choice for editing either - I like the 20" screen and a many gigs of RAM (along with cheaper, faster, LARGER IDE/SATA drives. My 18 my 18 minutes of Moab at low resolution took up 30gigs before rendering and you'll need that much extra while rendering. But you can hook up an external drive to the laptop - 500gB externals are going for around $239.

I sure wish MZ could use complete words and sentences all the time - anyone else have trouble understanding his posts? Must be a lazy age thing.