New Computer for FCP?

It is my understanding that processor speed is a main factor, more so than RAM? Is it so?

IN FCP's present form, yes, as Tom says.However, if you're doing multiclips of HD, you also want eSATA RAID connections. But if you're editing DV, CPU speed is meaningless; FCP worked just fine on our old G3s.
Speculating about the future of FCP is silly but we hope the next rev will have hooks into theGPU, similar to Motion.
Ho
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