OH MAN!!!!  I was just looking at the Apple website and they now have a dual 800mhz G4 monster!!!!!  That is an awesome machine, but it is still expensive compared to a PC.  Adobe please support OSX!!!!!!

Oh, by the way.  DVD writers work unders windows too, hopefully under Linux before long.  The prices have dropped quite a bit.  The Panasonic A03 (same drive apple uses) DVD-R/RW,CD-R/RW drive can be found for around $800 and the DVD-R media is about $9.  DVD-R will play in any DVD player for you stereo, but DVD-RW will only work in you DVD-RW drive.

Dusty

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> 
> The MAC is awesome for video editing, but all the research I have done doesn't look good for OSX.  No one is writting all the great Mac apps for OSX.
> 
> Plus, from what I have seen a 500mhz Mac running the adobe products (premiere, photoshop, after effects, etc) is almost as fast as a P4 1.5Ghz(running other apps the P4 is much faster), which is pretty awsome, but for the price I can build the highest end PC I want dual T-birds, 1GB mem, 400GB ATA-100 Raid array....  If and when adobe ports their products to the Mac I WILL switch.  I really only want After Effects and Photoshop.  Apple's Final Cut Pro is at least as good if not better than Premiere, but nothing even comes close to After Effects until you get about 100x more money to spend!
> 
> 
> Dusty
> 
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> > ok, i will apply myself and really put some effort into it ;) I have a
> > friend who is a mac guru that uses OS 9.?(1) and he just made a DVD not an
> > mpeg or avi, but a real dvd that plays in my home theater system, the
> > quality is amazing and I am able to browse through the dvd'd menus just like
> > i would with one from blockbuster or some other video store. For A/V stuff I
> > would only work on a MAC. Also, come to think of it, you can run OS 9.?
> > within OS X, just like running windows inside linux with VMWare, that might
> > be the cleanest solution, the best of both worlds and no windows.
> > 
> > Jon
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dusty [mailto:dusty@sandust.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 11:01 AM
> > To: Linux & Unix Advocates & Users
> > Subject: [luau] RE: This is what's wrong with our country!
> > 
> > 
> > No worries mate!  It was just a joke!  You'll have to actually put some
> > effort into getting me upset!
> > 
> > Something like the fact that I will be installing WIN2K in my house (the
> > first MS product on one of my machines in I can't remember how long) so I
> > can do some serious Video Editing.  I have tried everything I can find for
> > Linux and it is just not there.  I also tried everything for BeOS and it is
> > very low end (BeOS is such an awesome platform for multimedia).  I almost
> > decided to buy a Mac and use OSX, but there is no software (video editing or
> > otherwise) written for OSX and I can't see buying and extremely expensive
> > computer to do what my existing systems can do with WIN2K and Adobe.
> > 
> > I think I would prefer to chew off my own foot than use windows, but sandi
> > and I have become pretty serious about producing brodcast quality shows and
> > we have few options.
> > 
> > Dusty
> > 
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