Hey all,
I'm looking at getting a new mac. I've owned (and sold) a mac mini, and still have my ibook G4. I'm that guy that Steve Jobs builds and markets these things for .. "I need something to deal with all the home movies I have of my two kids and all the digital pictures I take of everything. " .. while I go through my mp3s (on my FreeNAS box).
I have a Sony TRV720 and 50+ tapes left to dump and put to imovie/idvd. (I have so many b/c the XP box and Pinnacle Studio wasn't cutting it for what I was looking for.)
My question is that from all the reviews I can find.. the 24" w/ the Nvidia card isn't going to help me much with imovie and idvd right? Would the 256M upgrade for the 20" video even be worth it for what I'm doing?
For the cost, the 2G ram upgrade would be worth it; not sure the 2.3G cpu upgrade would.. I would try and find a small sata raid (external) which I think would be a much better gain than a CPU upgrade. Althought the 24" FW800 port w/ a raid would be better still..
I did see the iTV thing and would like to make that a part of my setup when it comes out. I do own a ton of DivX movies that I stream (from the FreeNAS box) to a laptop that I have attached to the TV via Svideo, I'm hoping to drop the laptop and somehow use the iMac to watch DivX/MPG movies on the TV.
But the main purpose of the iMac is for the Movies and for daily use computing. And I will be putting Dreamweaver/Fireworks on it and doing php/html work on the side.. as well as iTerm/Terminal with many terms open being ssh'd into the 'BSD boxes at work. (Small/Local ISP)
I hate to be dragging this out, but the wife said we can get the 24" if I want, but I just want to make sure that I don't overspend or get something I don't need.. I know no one ever says "My computer is too fast.. " but christmas is coming for the kids.. (earlier for me ) and I just don't want to feel guilty later ..
the 24" w/ the AppleCare and 2.1GHz and 2G ram is about 2400
the 20" w/ the AppleCare and 2.1GHz and 2G ram is about 1900
$500..
So is the $500 really worth it for the 24" screen and all that it gives you?
TIA
I'm looking at getting a new mac. I've owned (and sold) a mac mini, and still have my ibook G4. I'm that guy that Steve Jobs builds and markets these things for .. "I need something to deal with all the home movies I have of my two kids and all the digital pictures I take of everything. " .. while I go through my mp3s (on my FreeNAS box).
I have a Sony TRV720 and 50+ tapes left to dump and put to imovie/idvd. (I have so many b/c the XP box and Pinnacle Studio wasn't cutting it for what I was looking for.)
My question is that from all the reviews I can find.. the 24" w/ the Nvidia card isn't going to help me much with imovie and idvd right? Would the 256M upgrade for the 20" video even be worth it for what I'm doing?
For the cost, the 2G ram upgrade would be worth it; not sure the 2.3G cpu upgrade would.. I would try and find a small sata raid (external) which I think would be a much better gain than a CPU upgrade. Althought the 24" FW800 port w/ a raid would be better still..
I did see the iTV thing and would like to make that a part of my setup when it comes out. I do own a ton of DivX movies that I stream (from the FreeNAS box) to a laptop that I have attached to the TV via Svideo, I'm hoping to drop the laptop and somehow use the iMac to watch DivX/MPG movies on the TV.
But the main purpose of the iMac is for the Movies and for daily use computing. And I will be putting Dreamweaver/Fireworks on it and doing php/html work on the side.. as well as iTerm/Terminal with many terms open being ssh'd into the 'BSD boxes at work. (Small/Local ISP)
I hate to be dragging this out, but the wife said we can get the 24" if I want, but I just want to make sure that I don't overspend or get something I don't need.. I know no one ever says "My computer is too fast.. " but christmas is coming for the kids.. (earlier for me ) and I just don't want to feel guilty later ..
the 24" w/ the AppleCare and 2.1GHz and 2G ram is about 2400
the 20" w/ the AppleCare and 2.1GHz and 2G ram is about 1900
$500..
So is the $500 really worth it for the 24" screen and all that it gives you?
TIA