kizeron Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 All, I'm about to by a 24" imac to do some major imovie, final cut pro editing. I plan to sell this after around a month and make around $400 loss. Now some questions. Would you advise, getting a hackintosh instead? Would it be faster and more productive? What hardware do I need? can someone spec up a kick arse machine that can do the same for a cheaper price including monitor? Will I be able to run final cut pro and ilife 6 on this? What about burning things to dvd? will it work with ilife? Awaiting your advise... Kiz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alloutmacstoday Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 get a custom made mac with the qx7300 (the quad core one) and tons of ram, and a big hd. it should actually end up costing less Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asap18 Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 Pioner 111D are cheap and are fully supported in Mac OS X. 2 GB of Ram should be fine, I recommend you get a raptor 10000 RPM drive as it will imporve editing times. For processor, a High end Core 2 Duo, E6700 should be fine (its faster than the fastest imacs, although i think a quad core is a little extreme). Graphics Card could be a Nvidia 7900GT, but try and stay away from the 512MB models, they tend to not work as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kizeron Posted February 25, 2007 Author Share Posted February 25, 2007 Can someone possibly write down a shopping list of items that are garanteed to work. Urrrrrm, as I'm poor and am putting this on plastic, would be able to sell this beast with little loss? Remember, I want to include the monitor also. Kiz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 If you're gonna sell it when you're done, go for the imac, since macs tend to have high second hand value. Be sure to get at least 2GB of RAM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alloutmacstoday Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 go to the wiki and find some good stuff http://wiki.osx86project.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asap18 Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 asap18 to the rescue Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...82E16813131025R (Asus P5W-DH) Processor http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16819115002 Core 2 Duo E6700 (You could probably get by with an E6600) RAM http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16820145590 (2x1 GB DDR2 800) DVD RW http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16827129001 (Pioneer DVR 111D) Hard Drive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16822136011 (Raptor 150GB 10000 RPM, although any 7200 RPM would do fine, just make sure you have enough space) And any case you want, micro atx style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kle500 Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 That's exactly what i wanted to do with a hack in the first place. Video Editing and Dvd Authoring. Without having worked in a real OsX Mac before ( i own 2 older G3 Beige with Os9), i have no experience to compare the speed of a Hack to a real Mac, in FCS suite. I need some recommendations here, concerning the extra need of a Video Card (GeForce or ATI), on working with FCP and Motion. Do i gain anything from choosing to work with a graphics card GF7600 or X1600 in Motion? Do i get faster previews? For example, the capture in FCP, shows slow preview and not real-time, is this the way FCP works in real Macs too? Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonokti Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 (edited) Get a real mac, 20-24" imac is fine and get 1 firewire drive at least 500Gigs or a mac pro if you can afford it. Store all your captured file on the external HD or 2nd HD if you go with a Mac Pro and your custom graphics and music on the main Hard Drive. BUT DON'T capture to the drive your OS and Apps is on. SATA 7200RPM HD is more than enough, DON'T get new updates for anything unless it's to fix something you need fixed. If it ain't broke don't fix it. The last thing you need to do is find bugs in the new updates when you're on a schedule. I know many video editors who are still running 10.3.9. Unless you doing some massive special effects you don't need 10kRPM drives nor Raid. Edited March 1, 2007 by jonokti Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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