Originally Posted By: Cris
Originally Posted By: peter
If what you want to do with your Mac is CPU-bound


It will mainly be Lightroom and Photoshop work to start with, but I am hoping that video editing will become a much bigger part of my work than it currently is. Certainly there will be an increase in outputting video content to HD, DVD and Web. All incoming video will now be in 1080p from my new 5D Mk II, so I guess it'll be high bandwidth to start with.


You'll be spending a lot of time transcoding if you use the 5D. While Final Cut Pro will change project settings to match the h.264 generated files, it spends 'ages' rendering every little change you make.

Unless you like spending several hours a day sitting in front of a progress bar you'd better buy the fastest machine.
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