Apple Upgrades

What's up I'm on my last referal for the freeminimac and i was wondering what you guys thought of this idea.

After receiving my mini mac i was thinking about taking it back to the apple store and exchanging it for a mini mac with internal BT and AP card and a superdrive, since i'll be running final cut pro. Should be a 200 dollar upgrade. Then instead of getting the gig of ram from apple which is another 325 bucks i'd purchase the PQI POWER Series 184-Pin 1GB DDR PC-3200 off of newegg for 125 so for a total of 325 bucks i'll have myself a 1gb mac with a dvd burner ap/bt ... not bad right ... any suggestions comments

you may want to look into a firewire hd. that 80GB drive wont last too long with FCP, and the speed may be less than stellar

yeah i know when i do editing its gonna eat up space like crazy firewire drive will probably be the way i go ... right now i edit on a PC 1.6 P4 processor and 512mb of ram double internal hard drives and i use Adobe Premiere Pro... its not fast at all but its usable ... think the mini will be a step up ?

I can now vouch for PQI's gig as being GREAT. ;)

i would go for a usb 2.0 hardrive.....

[quote6107f3042a="engleisle"]right now i edit on a PC 1.6 P4 processor and 512mb of ram double internal hard drives and i use Adobe Premiere Pro... its not fast at all but its usable ... think the mini will be a step up ?[/quote6107f3042a]It might be a slight step up (especially with the 1GB RAM) but neither of them will give too great of performance for Video Editing compared to a more recent P4 (hyper-threaded), Athlon64, or G5.

That's not really true. Ram will most certainly help with any large edit job. More so than a faster processor in a case like this. (Of course a faster processor with faster ram and so on will be better but big edit jobs need ram to get processed int he first place!)

Well, the thing with the newer processors is that the systems that go along with them offer features that would benefit video editing - primarily the FSB speeds and potential dual-channel action as well. The fatter the pipe to and from the processor and RAM the better. Notice I said it wouldn't give that "great of performance... compared to a more recent" processor. Its all about the bottlenecks and a Mac Mini has more of them - even with 1GB of RAM - than a "newer" processor platform.

Still, the 1GB Mac Mini will be a slight performance boost from his 1.6GHz P4, but not too much over if he put 1 GB of memory in that P4 system...

yeah my p4 is a sony vaio ... i researched ram for my older vaio and it seemed ram is extra expensive for sonys ... i only wanted to upgrade to 512 in my older vaio and the ram was like 300 bucks ... i think the cheapest was 200ish ... i know that niether are great for video editing ... i grad from college next year and if I score the job i want i'll probably end of buying a high end g5 mac or whatever is the newest with like 8 gigs of ram ... the mini mac is like a hold over you know ... thanks for the help

How did that RAM upgrade work out for you? I should be getting my mini soon (couple yellows left) and I think I need to buy some RAM for it. Doesn't pctech4free have extra RAM or does it need to be Kinsington?


[quoted6bf1d541d="engleisle"]What's up I'm on my last referal for the freeminimac and i was wondering what you guys thought of this idea.

After receiving my mini mac i was thinking about taking it back to the apple store and exchanging it for a mini mac with internal BT and AP card and a superdrive, since i'll be running final cut pro. Should be a 200 dollar upgrade. Then instead of getting the gig of ram from apple which is another 325 bucks i'd purchase the PQI POWER Series 184-Pin 1GB DDR PC-3200 off of newegg for 125 so for a total of 325 bucks i'll have myself a 1gb mac with a dvd burner ap/bt ... not bad right ... any suggestions comments[/quoted6bf1d541d]

The PQI ram for $120-130 from newwgg is working fine a week and counting. ;)

Yeah I've got the PQI from newegg also and it's working great.