My friend paid $1700 for a E-Mac computer for video editing.

[Kaieye]

Her computer has a DVD burner and 1 gig of SDRAM. She is using a program called Imovie 2 and is thinking about getting Adobe Premier.

I thought that was a expensive paperweight. Any comments or opinions?? I gave them a PC(Athlon 750 with about 384 megs of ram) for N/C and told them that I could have upgraded their PC to outperform their E-Mac...

Or should I STFU because its not my $$$


Kaieye

 

[human2k]

STFU, of course! My cousin bought an emachine because he thought it was fast, specs:

1.8 celeron
128mb pc100 sdram
20gb hd
52xcd
on board video/lan/nic/modem
15" monitor/cheap color printer (prolly worth $20)

total = $723 after tax/sh

1.8 (p4 based) celeron with 120mb ram (8 shared for video) = super slow (prolly slower than duron 1.2ghz). Plus the board has no AGP!

 

[cmdrdredd]

Macs are good machines for video. I prefer the OS by a long shot as well.

If they are doing video tell them to get Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro and make their own DVDs.

 

[murphy55d]

let them waste their money how they choose, i guess.

 

[Spicedaddy]

If video editing is the main use, it's a good purchase IMO. The e-mac is priced decently, and now she can get Final Cut Pro for vid editing, which isn't available on PC. (I'd get that instead of Premiere)

 

[BHeemsoth]

Originally posted by: cmdrdredd
Macs are good machines for video. I prefer the OS by a long shot as well.

If they are doing video tell them to get Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro and make their own DVDs.

I think your a little confused there buddy. Not Macs, E-Machines. E-machines are not good for video editing. In fact, E-machines arent good for much at all.

-Brian

 

[Spicedaddy]

Originally posted by: rpbri2886

Originally posted by: cmdrdredd
Macs are good machines for video. I prefer the OS by a long shot as well.

If they are doing video tell them to get Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro and make their own DVDs.

I think your a little confused there buddy. Not Macs, E-Machines. E-machines are not good for video editing. In fact, E-machines arent good for much at all.

-Brian

You know many people running I-Movie on an E-Machines? E-Mac is an Apple computer.

 

[BeauJangles]

Originally posted by: Spicedaddy

Originally posted by: rpbri2886

Originally posted by: cmdrdredd
Macs are good machines for video. I prefer the OS by a long shot as well.

If they are doing video tell them to get Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro and make their own DVDs.

I think your a little confused there buddy. Not Macs, E-Machines. E-machines are not good for video editing. In fact, E-machines arent good for much at all.

-Brian

You know many people running I-Movie on an E-Machines? E-Mac is an Apple computer.

Lol, E-mac is like the low-end Imac now... Basically a remodelled and revamped Imac (doesn't have LCD or stuff like that)



proof

 

[Derango]

Originally posted by: BlinderBomber

Originally posted by: Spicedaddy

Originally posted by: rpbri2886

Originally posted by: cmdrdredd
Macs are good machines for video. I prefer the OS by a long shot as well.

If they are doing video tell them to get Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro and make their own DVDs.

I think your a little confused there buddy. Not Macs, E-Machines. E-machines are not good for video editing. In fact, E-machines arent good for much at all.

-Brian

You know many people running I-Movie on an E-Machines? E-Mac is an Apple computer.

Lol, E-mac is like the low-end Imac now... Basically a remodelled and revamped Imac (doesn't have LCD or stuff like that)



proof

Yea, its the old iMac design with a 17" CRT...basiclly 🙂

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: BlinderBomber

Originally posted by: Spicedaddy

Originally posted by: rpbri2886

Originally posted by: cmdrdredd
Macs are good machines for video. I prefer the OS by a long shot as well.

If they are doing video tell them to get Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro and make their own DVDs.

I think your a little confused there buddy. Not Macs, E-Machines. E-machines are not good for video editing. In fact, E-machines arent good for much at all.

-Brian

You know many people running I-Movie on an E-Machines? E-Mac is an Apple computer.

Lol, E-mac is like the low-end Imac now... Basically a remodelled and revamped Imac (doesn't have LCD or stuff like that)



proof

Case wise it's the same, but it ships with a G4 CPU(vs G3) a GeForce 2(vs. Rage 128 Pro), flat CRT(vs. curved CRT), etc. The case is really all that's the same.

 

[Spicedaddy]

and 17" vs 15" screen.

 

[Darien]

eh...I would've gotten an older PowerMac G4 w/ CRT instead of an eMac.



eMac == no L3 cache.

 

[andrey]

Originally posted by: Kaieye
Her computer has a DVD burner and 1 gig of SDRAM. She is using a program called Imovie 2 and is thinking about getting Adobe Premier.

I thought that was a expensive paperweight. Any comments or opinions?? I gave them a PC(Athlon 750 with about 384 megs of ram) for N/C and told them that I could have upgraded their PC to outperform their E-Mac...

Or should I STFU because its not my $$$


Kaieye

You can always give her your PC, but dont' get pissed off when she calls you in the middle of the night to figure out how something works or why certain things do not work the way they suppose to. You're forgetting that with eMac you're getting Mac OS X, which in my opinion is way better than Windows and much easier to use as well.

I personally use Apple Powerbook G4 and I'm totally in love with the laptop. Light, easy, has every single feature I can think about and everything works without worries for any chipset drivers, any IRQ conflicts or outdated programs. Everything just works! =)

 

[Spicedaddy]

Originally posted by: andrey

Originally posted by: Kaieye
Her computer has a DVD burner and 1 gig of SDRAM. She is using a program called Imovie 2 and is thinking about getting Adobe Premier.

I thought that was a expensive paperweight. Any comments or opinions?? I gave them a PC(Athlon 750 with about 384 megs of ram) for N/C and told them that I could have upgraded their PC to outperform their E-Mac...

Or should I STFU because its not my $$$


Kaieye

You can always give her your PC, but dont' get pissed off when she calls you in the middle of the night to figure out how something works or why certain things do not work the way they suppose to. You're forgetting that with eMac you're getting Mac OS X, which in my opinion is way better than Windows and much easier to use as well.

I personally use Apple Powerbook G4 and I'm totally in love with the laptop. Light, easy, has every single feature I can think about and everything works without worries for any chipset drivers, any IRQ conflicts or outdated programs. Everything just works! =)

Wow, now you can save Christmas!!

😛

 

[KeithP]

Well, right now Macconnection.com has the 17 inch LCD iMac (800Mhz G4, 256MB RAM, 80GB HD, DVD-R) for 1994. They also through in an extra 512MB for free (768 total). I am guessing the eMac she got has only a 60GB HD. Also, the eMac uses a GF2MX, the iMac has a GF4MX. If it were my money, I rather spend the extra money and get the 17 in LCD model with the bigger HD and better video chipset.

-Keith

 

[lokni]

Jesus, WTF is up with all of the macintosh baloney? This lady got an Emachines, not an Apple product. Emachines are crap, especially if she is wanting to do a high level task like editing. Don't get me wrong, it will work for her purpose. but for the money, she could have done WAY WAY better if she had you build one for her. For that much money you could probably have put together an Nforce 2 board with an XP2700, and a radeon 9700 pro, 1 gig of DDR memory, a DVD burner, and still had money left over for a good flat screen 19" monitor or two.

 

[Miramonti]

women.

 

[tart666]

This lady got an Emachines, not an Apple product

Please understand the post before replying.

If anyone wants to buy an apple, let them. I think Apple users should be encouraged to part with their money. A lot of important useability enhancements came from Apple. USB/ Firewire/ laser printers, common use of SCSI, CDROM, sound way in the 80's.

As a company, Apple should not be allowed to disappear. And it's better if it's not my money that supports all that.

MS on the other hand, wastes a lot effort trying to be everywhere at once, so they don't get either the server or the desktop right.

 

[wetcat007]

That sounds like the price is a bit high for the lowend mac... I use G4 Mac Tower dual CPU and dual HD computers for my video editing with Final Cut Pro 2(works awesome), I other wise on PC use Pnnacle Studio 8 or Ulead VideoStudio 6.

-Mark

 

[Spicedaddy]

Originally posted by: lokni
Jesus, WTF is up with all of the macintosh baloney? This lady got an Emachines, not an Apple product. Emachines are crap, especially if she is wanting to do a high level task like editing. Don't get me wrong, it will work for her purpose. but for the money, she could have done WAY WAY better if she had you build one for her. For that much money you could probably have put together an Nforce 2 board with an XP2700, and a radeon 9700 pro, 1 gig of DDR memory, a DVD burner, and still had money left over for a good flat screen 19" monitor or two.

My friend paid $1700 for a E-Mac computer for video editing.

Her computer has a DVD burner and 1 gig of SDRAM. She is using a program called Imovie 2 and is thinking about getting Adobe Premier.


WTF is up with people being obsessed with E-Machines???

[ChrisTucker]DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND THA WORDS THAT IS COMIN' OUTTA MA MOUTH???!!![/ChrisTucker]

 

[Lichee]

Originally posted by: Spicedaddy

Originally posted by: lokni Jesus, WTF is up with all of the macintosh baloney? This lady got an Emachines, not an Apple product. Emachines are crap, especially if she is wanting to do a high level task like editing. Don't get me wrong, it will work for her purpose. but for the money, she could have done WAY WAY better if she had you build one for her. For that much money you could probably have put together an Nforce 2 board with an XP2700, and a radeon 9700 pro, 1 gig of DDR memory, a DVD burner, and still had money left over for a good flat screen 19" monitor or two.

My friend paid $1700 for a E-Mac computer for video editing. Her computer has a DVD burner and 1 gig of SDRAM. She is using a program called Imovie 2 and is thinking about getting Adobe Premier. WTF is up with people being obsessed with E-Machines??? [ChrisTucker]DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND THA WORDS THAT IS COMIN' OUTTA MA MOUTH???!!![/ChrisTucker]

lol. you set him straight!

darn, some people are loaded with egos. they think they know everything.

anything with an 'i' is more than likely mac based (exception is iPaq...and probably more). that should have been a clue. another clue was that i dont think you will find many pcs with dvd burners included. apple is the only comp company i know that does this....and has done it for a year now(?). when Kaieye mentioned paperweight, i immediately thought of a Mac. 😉

at any rate, keeping on topic, i think you should just let her know pros and cons and let her decide. im actually going through something similar. i have a lady friend who is hung up on the idea that macs are better for graphics work. ive shown her numerous links and benchmarks stating otherwise(like this). the only thing macs have, IMO, is maybe some good performance in Photoshop. but, even in that program, it is highly debatable. (keep in mind im talking just about software and performance. not stability and usability of OSX vs XP. that is different)

 

[prosaic]

Duh, what is all the obsession with Macintoshes and E-Machines, anyway? I got an EMACS, and I can't edit video with it at all. All I see is a bunch of text! How do I give it a gig of RAM? Is that all I need to make it edit video? Inquiring MIMEs want to know!

- prosaic

Oh, BTW, Sony is one PC builder that has been selling PCs with included DVD writers for some time -- a little over a year at least since that's when my buddy got his first one. He got it at Circuit City, or, rather, his wife did. Danged thing works very well, actually. I can't imagine that making DVDs could get much easier than that. I got a later model in August, and it has been absolutely flawless in function. Making a DVD requires you to capture to the HD then use a couple of dead simple applications, one for making the cuts and the other for writing them to DVD. Haven't had a single failure. System came with Adobe Premier LE on it. I don't need anything fancier. So Macs aren't the only game in town. But the Sony costs MORE than the E-Mac. Of course, it's also quite a bit faster, with a much bigger hard drive.

 

[Eug]

Getting an eMac is OK for video editing, but that person would have been better off with a low end PowerMac for $1899 (monitor not included, which is probably a good thing):

Dual 867MHz PowerPC G4
256MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM
60GB Ultra ATA drive
SuperDrive
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX dual display
56K internal modem
Networking, Firewire, etc.

Danged thing works very well, actually. I can't imagine that making DVDs could get much easier than that.

Then you haven't used a Mac.

Anyways, I use both. Windows XP with DVD burner, and Mac OS X with DVD burner.

 

[prosaic]

Then you haven't used a Mac.

Well, yes, actually I have. My brother has two of them that he uses for video and music editing. I've never had a problem creating a DVD with either type. But bear in mind that I'm using a pre-packaged hardware/software solution from Sony, not a roll-your-own like most people here seem to favor. On the other hand, it's fairer to compare two vendor-prepared solutions than it is to compare a roll-your-own to a vendor-prepared solution, isn't it?

- prosaic

 

[Eug]

Originally posted by: prosaic

Then you haven't used a Mac.

Well, yes, actually I have. My brother has two of them that he uses for video and music editing. I've never had a problem creating a DVD with either type. But bear in mind that I'm using a pre-packaged hardware/software solution from Sony, not a roll-your-own like most people here seem to favor. On the other hand, it's fairer to compare two vendor-prepared solutions than it is to compare a roll-your-own to a vendor-prepared solution, isn't it?

- prosaic

OK I stand corrected. Which Macs? Are they iDVD endowed? DVD Studio Pro?