Mac's are great!

Just ask Brad Gosse what he uses...

http://www.stockimagelab.com/post/Render_farm.JPG

:2 cents:

More...
http://www.stockimagelab.com/post/essog-render-farm.jpg

Brad knows what's up.

Seriously...
http://www.stockimagelab.com/post/ybm-office/YBM-4.jpg

Any laptop is going to be a compromise between speed and power usage. If video rendering is really important, buy a desktop.

I have very little MAC experience, although I did get to play with some of the first mac computers on the market.

honestly save yourself money buy two PC laptops and use Vegas network render across them both, faster and cheaper...no shit

back to video rendering...
 

I've greatly speeded up my video rendering by killing explorer before starting.
Just ctrl-alt-del after you open your rendering prog and end task on explorer.
Has greatly speeded up all video work on my vista laptop.

You could likely get a faster PC laptop for the money but if you go Apple on the laptop it's a good time to buy the Mac Book Pro because they just released the newest model.

If you need serious rendering go with a Mac Pro because they are 8 core machines (dual quads).

Macs are overpriced computers for people who have given up on researching the hardware they should be buying.

intel CPU + crappy unix variant = mac

50 ergonomical ways to waste money.

are you serious ? look at your fucking nickname, iMind? :1orglaugh and PC is overpriced ? you can build MUCH MUCH faster PC system for the same amount you spend on MAC (don't even start me about their monitor prices :1orglaugh )... I've been running Windows XP since it came out, I NEVER had any issues with it, and my computers are on 24/7... you sound like a newbie who doesn't know what the fuck he's doing, so he had to get MAC because he got some windows virus without using any firewall/antiviruse... and I'm sorry, but PC IS Mercedes and MAC is more like Honda

Insecure PC users are so funny. I've never seen so many people get so upset over someone wanting a Mac. Get some therapy really, it's a fucking computer.

who's upset ? seems like you're a bit touchie by responding 20 times in this thread :1orglaugh

um, ya I am one of the few people who actually answered his questions.

to all the idiots that think they can build something better than mac..

what the fuck are you doing here then.. why not go start a company building computers.. oh thats right.. there all shit...


dwb..

get a macbookpro you will thank me later

Thanks everyone. :-)

Ya'll can calm down now.