general_tso Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 All, I have looked extensively for months and months and would love your opinions to my delima. Your my only hope, OBI-wan. I want a computer that I can do Video/Audio editing and conversion ie FCP studio, vegas, adobe etc camera footage, HD editing to DVD and audio editing --LP,digital mixing etc to digital . If you had about 3k what would you do? 1) Buy a macbook pro 15" or 17" 2.66 GHz 4GB 320HD - 512 MB GB HD. and build a hack deskop and Overclock it to 3.0-4 GHZ with a 1gb OC graphics card for around 1k and with spare parts? 2) Buy a Mac Pro - Two 2.26GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon "Nehalem" processors 6GB 512 MB graphics 3) Buy a Mac Pro - One 2.66GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon "Nehalem" processor 3GB 512 MB graphics 4) Build a hack pro laptop--Suggestions? and Build a hack pro desktop--Suggestions? For around 2.5K and keep the cash? I am sure most of you are going to say this one, but please keep in mind I need everything to be working. Maybe you can tell me what you have? Yesterday I bought the dual quad mac-#2, but I am afraid that I made a big mistake and should return it ASAP, but I don't know what to do. I haven't even opened it out of the box because of the fear. I have 13 days to make a decision. I'd love to have it all. Heeh, Heeh. Be mobile and productive. Plus the MBP is a nice laptop. Expensive as hell though. Which would be the best bet?? I want to get to work right away. What would you do? Please help. I would tremendously be greatful for any advice. Thanks in advance. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/169505-what-would-you-do-countdown/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 If you want a no headache computer stcik with the MacPro. Also if you are using the computer for commercial purposes, then might as well keep the mac. Hacks do generally work well, once set up, but are 1 wrong move away from dying out. I personally sold my iMac coz I couldnt afford a Mac Pro and needed a gaming machine. I would suggest you stick with your Mac Pro, or buy a MBP and build a hack. Depends on how much technical expertise you have. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/169505-what-would-you-do-countdown/#findComment-1171464 Share on other sites More sharing options...
general_tso Posted June 8, 2009 Author Share Posted June 8, 2009 If you want a no headache computer stcik with the MacPro. Also if you are using the computer for commercial purposes, then might as well keep the mac. Hacks do generally work well, once set up, but are 1 wrong move away from dying out. I personally sold my iMac coz I couldnt afford a Mac Pro and needed a gaming machine. I would suggest you stick with your Mac Pro, or buy a MBP and build a hack. Depends on how much technical expertise you have. I appreciate your advice. Thank you very much. I want to be as productive as possible. I am not a pro, but built a half working hackintosh out of a dell optiplex 270, but it would keep locking up on sleep. I could build one and just not update it at a certain point. I just don't understand how to edit kexts and applying them, yet. I am just having trouble picking out the parts from frys and newegg cuz everything gets upgraded and I am not sure that the parts will work. Games would be nice too. What is your machine specs and all?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/169505-what-would-you-do-countdown/#findComment-1172366 Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormPCs Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 I appreciate your advice. Thank you very much. I want to be as productive as possible. I am not a pro, but built a half working hackintosh out of a dell optiplex 270, but it would keep locking up on sleep. I could build one and just not update it at a certain point. I just don't understand how to edit kexts and applying them, yet. I am just having trouble picking out the parts from frys and newegg cuz everything gets upgraded and I am not sure that the parts will work. Games would be nice too. What is your machine specs and all?? Most hacks don't work as well as some would have you believe. I did a lot of that stuff when I had time to play, but running a hacked OSX on a PC is almost as bad as Linux. Either way you need to know Linux/Unix very well if you plan on having it actually do anything reliably. Even then, every time you want to add functionality you risk the very real danger of having to reformat and reload your entire system and configuration. If you need to run OSX reliably you really should stay with the real thing. The Mac runs ALL of the Windows OS's natively and includes drivers right on the OSX DVD. More importantly, it actually runs Windows programs as well. If you don't need to run OSX then I'd stay away from Macs, as long as you have the technical chops to build a really nice computer. People complain about the price of Macs a lot but you really do get 2 PCs in 1. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/169505-what-would-you-do-countdown/#findComment-1172953 Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 If time means more to you than money, then go for a Mac. I personally am a student and a gamer, so I cant afford a Mac Pro and a good GFX My machine though works very well. Full Sleep/Sound/LAN/AHCI everything My specs are:- Gigabyte EP43-DS3L (more or less same as EP45) Palit GTX260 OSX doesnt really depend much on anything else except those two components. (interms of compatibility) But as a previous iMac owner I can say this machine is 95% there. Heck OSX is more stable than Windows 7 on this. But I still get random KP's, everytime I upgrade Win 7 I have to mess around with the bootloader, etc. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/169505-what-would-you-do-countdown/#findComment-1173150 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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