Wanting to buy a mac, what are my choices with firewire camcorder
I have a friend who wants to switch to a mac but I am pretty sure his camcorder has firewire and he wants to make dvds for his family.
What are his choices??? I started reading posts and got confused!
thanks
Laura
Get a MacBook White if you want a portable Mac, and not the Aluminum MacBook.
The MacBook Pro will also work with that camcorder, but is almost twice as expensive new. Used and refurbished Macs exist which are cheaper.
Get a Mac Mini if you want the cheapest Mac that fits those requirements.
Make sure the model you have either has a Superdrive by default, or build to order.
An iMac will also fit those requirements if he needs a graphics processor capable of playing high end games.
A Mac Pro is good if he needs to use programs such as Final Cut Pro and Adobe CS4 to their fullest capability, though all these machines when maxed out on RAM should be able to handle basic editing with these programs.
CS3 and earlier versions of Adobe are best run on older used and refurbished G5s.
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