[Hidden-tech] Does this sound like a good computer deal?

[Robert Heller]

At Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:26:49 -0500 "Daniel Fried" <dan at creativeconstructs.com> wrote:

> 
> Actually, there is one thing that everyday consumers would realistically use
> a really large hard drive for, video editing.  Dumping hours and hours of
> high quality video onto your system (high quality so you can burn nice
> looking DVD's) does take a lot of space.  300GB is a lot, but I certainly
> ran into serious problems with an 80GB drive trying to put together a video
> of a memorial service for my wife's family, I ended up having to be very
> careful about which segments got transferred to the hard drive.  A 300GB
> hard drive would have made it much easier.
> 
> Of course not everyone wants to edit video on their system, but it is easy
> enough to do these days (especially on a Mac... iMovie and iDVD are nice
> programs for beginners).

But this is a *somewhat* special purpose activity.  If *I* were doing
video editing, I'd probably have a separate disk just for that purpose.
Note: a DVD (holding maybe 3 hours of video) only holds 4.5g, so 300g
is like 66 DVDs worth of video, or about 198 hours of video.

If one is only doing 'office' stuff (word-processing, spread-sheets, web
surfing, E-Mail, and the like), 300g is an *enormous* amount of disk space.

> 
> -Dan
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> At Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:12:25 -0800 Tom Adams / Reelife
> <reelifeproductions at mac.com> wrote:
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> > 
> > never enjoyed the apple vs. windows debate but i can't resist throwing in
> a little fodder for the fire...
> > 
> > 
> > Frank wrote:
> > re: The fact is, they're both valid platforms and you just have to be
> comfortable with what you need to work .
> > > good point.  sometimes I like to wear ripped jeans, other times i like
> khakis.
> > 
> > re:Frankly, I think that the claims made by Apple are somewhat  overblown
> > > disagree.  I've never said "wow" to a new microsoft
> application...whereas, I literally was flabergasted by some of the new stuff
> I've seen in the latest apple keynote address
> (http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/j47d52oo/event/).  I agree these
> keynote addresses are a sickening display of apple geeks gawking at their
> faithful leader adorned in a black turtleneck and jeans... but all that
> aside, I think the apple product is quite an astonishing value.
> > 
> > re:...check out the top of the line Mac Mini.  It tends to be light on
> disk space (A question for the Mac Apostles:  Why would that be?!) 
> > > the top of the line mac mini has an 80GB hard drive...that's not
> "light"...that's plenty of space for the average user (especially for $800)
> 
> I agree here.  *I* have never understood the reason for a putting a
> 300gb SATA drive on a *PC*.  Unless one is downloading (in a wholesale
> manor) complete feature films in digital form (eg pirated DVDs) or
> something, what do you really need 300gb for?  I do software
> development and have come nowhere near filling up my 36gig disk. The
> current breed of iPods have on 30gig, so 300gig would be enough for 10
> iPods worth of music. At roughly 1 meg/1 minute, this is about 300*1024
> minutes or aboout 300,000 minutes or 5000 hours or 208 *days* of music.
> 
> So, unless one is doing things involving image understanding research (I
> worked for awhile at UMass at the Computer Vision Reearch Lab) 300gb is
> a truely excesive amount of disk space.  Really.  Sort of like using a
> 40' tractor trailler to get a week's worth of groceries for a family of
> four... 
> 
> > 
> > re: A good reason to stick with Windows:  Office 2007
> > > Not really. If you use the "Parallels" application, you can run Windows
> at the same time you're running Mac OS.  Doesn't matter if they EVER release
> it on the MAc platform...you can run it immediately if you use the
> "Parallels" application.
> > 
> > 
> > -Tom
> > 
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