Comparable laptop for Imac

Glad I found these forums... have one more question....
I have found that going from my powerpc imac at home to an intel mac at the university lab has caused quite a few problems....
so...
I want to get a laptop that I can open final cut project files and others and not have to worry with combatability problems...
would I be better off to get a refubrished powerbook... or maybe a powerpc laptop.... thinking staying away from the intel chip would be wise ??
my current imac has a ATI Radeon 9600 if that matters

would be running final cut studio pro 5.04 .... latest version of quicktime 7.0? or whatever the newest version is and tiger 10.4.6
at school we have intel macs and haven't had an experience with final cut pro .... but illustrator and photoshop both have problems reading files that are created on my powerpc imac at home.... they crash....lock up and sometimes things like free transform or paintbushes will no longer work correctly

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Past the above, my concerns would be ... what external drive connections does it have? If it's got USB3, you could use a large and FAST flash drive as the storage area for your media ... you'd need to move projects on & off it of course as you worked, but say a 128 flash drive with a high sustained read-speed would handle a lot of work moving it off that relatively small SSD. Small, of course compared to 1T or better HD's.
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Im looking to buy a used Imac. Can someone please compare the two imacs for me please? Which one is better? Would be using it for music (Pro Tools)
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Model number-MC511XX/A
S/N- W8*******5PE
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<Personal Information Edited by Host>

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Discontinued     May 2011
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I just purchased a HP laptop for work purposes and didn't want to put too many personal files on it, including music.
I thought I could use home sharing instead but it isn't working?
On my iMac, I have turned on home sharing and when my brother's Macbook is connected to the same WiFi, it let's me open up his library and play his muic on my iMac. I thought it would work the same way on my laptop.
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Without knowing the specification requirements of the applications you will be using, I can't give you a specific recommendation. But I have provided you with the specifications of the two screen sizes of both the MacBook Pro Retina and the MacBook Air to compare with the requirements of your apps. One caution I would provide is not to go with the bare minimums required for the app, doing that would not give you optimum performance.
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Sharing/accessing files between laptop and imac

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There are quite a few options available to you with varying degrees of speed and integration.
Assuming that you take your PowerBook home
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3) Create a new user account on your desktop and set it to use your PowerBook home directory as its home directory. For this solution you're going to need to start your PowerBook in Target Disk Mode and be able to modify the new account under the root account to point it to your PowerBook's home directory. This is by far the most integrated solution as you will actually be using the same home directory on both computers though it is by far the most difficult to set up.
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2) Buy yourself a portable FireWire hard drive to use on both computers. By the way, an iPod will work though won't be as quick due to its smaller and slower 1.8" drive.
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Hi Robert
I had found your earlier blog post while doing my research, but it was useful to read the second post, and I had a look at the Adrian Kingsley-Hughes Ultimate Photoshop PC post. (Is he serious going online with a name like that?!)
So it looks like I am going to fine with a quad core i7 at 2.4Hhz or faster, 16Gb RAM and decent nVidia graphics?
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