Anyone want to take a shot at this? Who thinks which is a better, faster, more usefull machine for video editing, graphics editing?
Alienware computers sport some pretty sexy specs, and they're very attractive. Would they be useful for video editing and graphics work? Are they faster than the best Macbook Pro's?
Please state your reasons.
In the end, the question is what software you wish to use.
I only use the Mac because I could not find comparable tools for Windows that performed video editing as well as iLife '06 did.
On Windows, I tried every single program on the market for capturing video and burning it to DVD. And, the PC's specs were pretty high.
And, between $0 and $1500, I could not find a single Windows-based program that would capture video without dropping frames, or introduce artifacts into the captured video, or produce dimly lit videos when burned to DVD, or produce stutters in the motion video when the DVD was burned (stutters that were not present in the program's preview).
Almost every Windows program came really, really close. Only one or two of them produced all the symptoms described above. Most of the programs only produced one of the symptoms I mentioned above.
The problem, is that I couldn't find a single program that would do the job from beginning to end without some defect being present.
It didn't matter how much money I threw at it. I just couldn't get a program at any cost that would perform the job as well and as flawlessly as iLife '06 did at the time.
Fortunately, my losses were minimized by making pre-purchase agreements with the vendors / software publishers. I had it in writing that if the program didn't perform to my demands, I would get a full refund. And, all but one of them honored the deal. For that last one, my credit card company assisted in the refund.
In the end, I went back to using a Mac solely for iLife '06.
If the program you need is available in Windows, then I would say just buy whatever machine you like and best matches your budget.
