Can I use ION VIDEO 2 PC on my iMac?

According to this link from their official website, it is compatible with both Mac and PC: http://www.ionaudio.com/products/details/video-2-pc-mkii. And just as a side note, Apples and every other brand of computers are PC's (short for "personal computer"), but Apple wanted to differentiate themselves from the other manfacturers. But the operating systems are different, so it is easy to say PC (Windows) or Apple (OS X) to differentiate between the two systems when discussing software compatibility.

that is the link I provided in my original response. Read. It says it works for both PC and Mac. That is called a "Video 2 PC MKII". I was unsure if that was the model your friend had or not.

shldr2thewheel wrote:

Apples and every other brand of computers are PC's (short for "personal computer"), but Apple wanted to differentiate themselves from the other manfacturers.

OT: That is not quite correct. The term "personal computer" (common noun) emerged in the 1970s to distinguish microcomputers from minicomputers and mainframes.

There were a variety of architecture and platforms; great names from that age (Commodore, Wang) are now largely forgotten. Apple emerged in the second half of the decade with the Apple I personal computer.

At the beginning of the 1980s, IBM, dominant in the mainframe business, decided to enter the personal computer market, and it did so with the IBM 5150, or the IBM PC ("Personal Computer" -- proper noun). Due to several factors (including IBM's size and power) this platform became a virtual industry standard. While other platforms fell by the wayside, various manufacturers began to build "IBM PC-compatible" products; the terms then became "PC-comaptible", and, nowadays, just "PC".

As long as Apple's computers were based on a different processor architecture, they were personal computers, but they were not PCs. After Apple switched to the current Intel processor line, it became debatable whether its computers are PCs, or a different type of personal computer. I don't have the intimate understanding of the PC hardware platform necessary to have an opinion on the topic. For a good many people a "PC" actually means a Wintel machine, ie, a personal computer based on the Intel x86 (or compatible) architecture, designed to run under Windows; a Mac complies with the former, but not with the latter, so it's still not a PC in that sense.

ok so Apple is a totally seperate type of computer? I don't think so. It's a brand just like all the other consumer computers. Anyway. I won't clog up the OP's post with further off topic comments, but it would be an interesting discussion elsewhere.

shldr2thewheel wrote:

It's a brand just like all the other consumer computers.

A good place to start is to read the Wikipedia entries on personal computer, IBM-PC platform, and related topics. Also, you need to distinguish between brand and platform; eg, Toyota is a brand, Prius is a platform.

you need to stop creating posts that are completely off topic in order to create an argument. You do this often, and others have noticed. Regardless if what I said was vague and you were looking to clarify, it provides no benefit to the OP in this case.I am unsubscribing to this thread so as to avoid any further responses towards me you may create.

shldr2thewheel wrote:

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There goes a true gentleman and scholar. Vale!

bozojim wrote:

Some one told me about this similar device […]

I think you've already got your answer on AnandTech. At any rate, you friend should check her camera -- she may not need this device after all. If the camera is digital, there's a good chance she can connect it directly to the Mac.

But, if she doesn't even know what version of the Mac OS X she is using and what apps she has installed, she may encounter bigger problems than connecting a camera to her Mac.

ION Video 2 PC can be connected to mac OSX 10.10.4

I haven't figured compression settings yet, though. MPEG4 & H.264 don't work with Quicktime & Adobe Premiere 13.