[LivinLOS]

I had macs forced on me when many many years ago there were not PC based video editing suites.. Now with AVID and a host of others the SW gap seems to have caught up..

I have to say that I had a (very brief) play with OSX and it looks slick.. I think of OSX could be sold to piggyback a *nix distro and made wintel it could shake up the market a lot.. However would that shake up benefit apple of intel I dont know.. I would do a dual boot..

What I hate is the limited hardware configs.. My house is full of machines that never get the cases back on.. New parts gon in and out, gutting them, swapping components, all available locally.. Apple parts.. forget about it..

I guess I just never really caught the cult of the mac thing.. I think they have design flair but its never been enough to pull me in..

You mention video work.. What the hell were you doing with uncompressed HD ??? I have dealt with D5 equivalents (compressed HD master type stuff) and they were HUGE.. You must work in the film / pro realm yes ?? I had and have more than a passing interest in cinema / encoding / HiDef / Etc..