On Sat, 19 Apr 2003 12:49:17 +1200, "Paul" <p-carlisle@paradise.net.nz> wrote:

>I have PIII 450Hz 384mb PC133 ram, Win 98SE, Pinnacle Studio DV & Sony D8.

> Any editing is long winded am thinking of upgrading.

>Looking at P4 2.5Hz Win XP 256mb DDR 60g hd

>Mac G4 350Hz Mac OS X 256mb ram

>eMac G4 700Hz OS X 256mb

>

>Can anybody please advise pros & cons going from PC to Mac

>What I am trying to do is edit D8 tapes then transfer back to D8 tapes, and

>burn some to CD later to DVD. There is a firm that can burn to DVD now in

>town but would like to do own in future

You have a sufficient computer now - we still use some

of these P-III or Celeron 450s and they are quite adequate.

You also have enough RAM, though I would recommend adding a

largish HD, to be used exclusively for video files (these

are cheap). You will also need a FireWire card (very cheap

these days...). Some MPEG2 encoding software is slow, and

if you use this, a faster computer can be useful...