Mac or PC for Premiere CS5?
I love Premiere which will run on a PC or a Mac BUT I have always used a PC for editing.
I was going to stick with a new i7 PC computer but is this the right choice?? I don't want to start a PC\MAC war but desperately need some reasoned advice. Thanks. |
Just a couple of observations:
1. MAC's are beautifully engineered 2. They look good 3. They work out of the box 4. They are very expensive 5. They offer very limited expansion capability 6. OS-X sucks with multi-threading 7. They offer far less forum support |
Excellent Comments Harmm
Any other opinions from those that work with both PC and Mac and Premiere?
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If you are willing to build your own machine (and are somewhat adventureous) you really don't have to choose. You can have both OS on a dual boot machine. That is what I did. SL and Windows 7 Pro can live happily in the same box. I am running FCP on the MAC side and Premiere Pro CS5 on the Windows side.
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I've worked with CS5 on both, though I run Windows 7.
I found the Mac to be just fine, I don't know what the difference would be other than the display card options are a bit narrower and the media "structure" on the Mac is limited to only QT...so I do know that some types of AVIs do not load on Mac, whereas when you put QT on your windows machine, you have the filetypes supported by QT and Windows available... I don't know how to really delineate them very much now that they are nearly the same machine... I guess it's OS preference. |
Bill, are you using a nVidia card for acceleration in both OSes? Would be great to see a benchmark of the software on identical hardware.
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Probably less expensive for you to go the "Hackintosh" route as Bill mentioned. You can have the best of both worlds and have better expansion capabilities than with a MacPro.
MacPro's, no doubt, are probably the best looking and built computers out there; but conversely also have more limitations than a Windows based machine. |
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