Local Mac Store visit - very disapointed with Final Cut...test!

Was at the Apple store this eve doing a little test...
Very dissapointed....
I dropped in a 18 second 1.5MB quicktime file and it would not play on the canvas, very disapointing. As a recent swithcher trying out all different machines, I was surprised it would not play.
Then, I came home and loaded up FCP 5.1.1 on my iMAC, exported a 3 second file, re-imported, added one FX and got the dropped frame rate. Surely since these are faster in some respects than the G5, I am having trouble adjusting.
As a Vegas user, as well as tester, you could apply transitions on the fly and see how they worked or not, in FCP, it would not play one FX without an error.
What is the bottle neck?

I haven't tried doing what you did, but I notice that the Macs in the stores are setup to reject any changes to their software or contents. There are two layers of protection, and it appears to work very well. Anything added seems to just disappear within about a minute, or perhaps it's that one change disappears before a second can be completed, at least that's the way it appears to me.
I'd suggest getting someone at the store, perhaps the manager or assistant mgr to go over the machines' capabilities with you. I'd like to think they have some level of access. And you don't have to worry about getting a hard sell sales pitch from Apple employees, as they aren't trained that way.

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