Pentium M 1.5 vs Mac's PowerPC G4 1.5

[Aosh]

I'm looking at two notebooks. One PC and one mac, and both are around $2K. But I'm wondering how the CPUs stack up. Which will be faster for video editting?

 

[ViRGE]

Video editing? Due to the software situation on the Mac vs. Windows, you're likely to be using a Mac anyhow, so it's almost a no-brainer before we even want to talk about speed. Overall though, I'd probably give the Mac the edge.

 

[Corporate Thug]

G4

 

[Sunner]

Got any more detailed specs?
If the Pentium-M is in a lappy with a 15" screen and has 1 GB of RAM while the Powerbook is a 12" model with 256 MB of RAM, the situation changes quite a bit for example.

 

[Aosh]

Yep here they are:

$2020
Pentium M 1.6GHz
15" SXGA+
512MB
Radeon 9700 128MB
60GB
DVD+/-RW -RAM
5 hrs
6.3lb

$2500
PowerPC G4 1.5GHz
15.2"
512MB
80GB
Radeon 9700 64MB
DVD-R
5.7lb
batt life??

Actually, this is what I'm looking for:
Pentium M 1.5-2.0GHz
512MB Ram
any video card
60+GB HD
DVD+/-RW
preferably 4+hrs
sub 7lb
any screen size

Any one know of any cheap models?? $2K is a bit pricey for that IMO...

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: Aosh
Yep here they are:

$2020
Pentium M 1.6GHz
15" SXGA+
512MB
Radeon 9700 128MB
60GB
DVD+/-RW -RAM
5 hrs
6.3lb

$2500
PowerPC G4 1.5GHz
15.2"
512MB
80GB
Radeon 9700 64MB
DVD-R
5.7lb
batt life??

Actually, this is what I'm looking for:
Pentium M 1.5-2.0GHz
512MB Ram
any video card
60+GB HD
DVD+/-RW
preferably 4+hrs
sub 7lb
any screen size

Any one know of any cheap models?? $2K is a bit pricey for that IMO...

You can make a 2GHz Dell 8600 with 80GB/512MB/GF5200Go for $2000.

 

[Lyfer]

You can save money by going for a Dell Latitude D800 which is what my work place bought me for ~$1500. Its pretty decently loaded with a P4-m 1.4ghz, 1gb ddr266 ram (this is the sweet spot ), Geforce 4200 GO 32mb, 30gb hd, dvd/cd-rw combo.

 

[Aosh]

Regarding the Dell 8600 and Dell D800, I don't know where you're getting your prices from. The prices I'm seeing when I customize it to the specs posted are around $500-800 more. Am I doing something wrong?

 

[Aosh]

A quick question.

On newegg I'm seeing a lot of otherwise superb Sony VAIO's with "ATI MOBILITY RADEON, 16MB(installed)". In this day in age, why is any video card using 16MB??? Are these OK?

 

[Sunner]

With the specs you gave, I'd go for the Mac.

 

[thirdlegstump]

more important question...what SOFTWARE are you editing with?
If it's anything other than Final Cut, you may as well go with the PC. Premiere and After Effects runs way faster on the PC.

 

[Aosh]

Hmm, good point. Right now I'm using Adobe Premiere 7.0. I'd love to use Final Cut Pro, except for a couple of things. The PowerBook is $500 than the PC configurations I'm looking at, and it doesnt seem Final Cut comes with PowerBook (extra $900?).

 

[Wahsapa]

Final Cut = :thumbsup: best video editing software ever

you have to buy final cut :thumbsdown:.... or find somebody who already has it

the m notebook has a 9700 w/ 128 mb ram which would help videoediting.

for 2500 id buy a dual G5, much faster(and easier) video editing.

 

[Aosh]

Originally posted by: Wahsapa
the m notebook has a 9700 w/ 128 mb ram which would help videoediting.

for 2500 id buy a dual G5, much faster(and easier) video editing.

I was pretty sure video card doesnt do anything for video editting?

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...8903&enterthread=y

Yea, for 2500 I could get a killer PC or Mac desktop. But I need a laptop.

 

[thirdlegstump]

Video card has absolutely nothing to do with any of these software. They only produce 2d screen display acceleration and nothing else unless you get something like some of the realtime effects preview solutions by Matrox or Canopus etc...even those just do the accelerated previews and not the final render..unless you need their I/O features.

 

[mooojojojo]

I don't see you comparing dimensions and weight? Since you have to have a notebook - perhaps you do care about that. I'm guessing the Powerbook is better in this respect? (I'm actually asking since I'm too lazy to check out those Dells posted here, but I think you should keep in mind those two things when shopping for a laptop.)