Or you could get a

€ Power Mac G4 Dual 1.25GHz w/167MHz system bus
€ 512MB PC2700 DDR SDRAM - 1 DIMM
€ 1x120GB Ultra ATA drive
€ Optical 1 - Apple SuperDrive
€ Optical 2 - None
€ ATI Radeon 9000 Pro dual-display w/64MB DDR
€ 56K internal modem
€ Apple Pro Keyboard - U.S. English
€ Mac OS - U.S. English

For US $3200

€ 3more 120GB drives for US $390
€ 512MB Ram for US $49

Now you've got a dream machine for ~US $3650

Now you've got a dual processor with support for dual displays and a built
in DVD-R CD-R drive, something you won't find below.

Adobe Premier and After effects run US $1150, or you can the video bundle
for US $1250 that includes Illustrator and PhotoShop.

It's all a matter of perspective. The point is, comparing similar machines
between a Mac/Win machine, cost is going to be pretty much the same. If you
add a DVD-R CD-R drive and dual display card to the Win machine below,
you'll probably be above the cost of the Mac. Either way, it's a myth that
you'll pay more for a comparable Mac.

And while Premier and After Effects are good programs, FCP is taking a huge
chunk out of that market share as it's quite superior -- we have both but do
all of our video production in FCP.

On 11/7/02 5:26 PM, "Ron Smith" <dwlist@angildesign.com> wrote:

> If, however, you are looking for a more robust solution which provides the
> best performance and value, I would suggest using a PC with Adobe Premier
> and After Effects. You can get a high performance workstation with 1gig of
> 333DDR RAM, RAID5 IDE 133MB/S over 4 drives (Total storage 500 Gigabytes)
> and an AMD Athlon XP 2200 processor for well under $3500. If you really
> want to up the ante, you could go for an Athlon MP dual-processor system
> with the above drive and memory configuration for under $4500.


Cheers!

Todd R. Warfel

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