Is this iMac fast enough?
Currently I am working with a MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2008) with 4GB of ram.
Its not entirely fast but is managable when working with HD footage since I replaced the standard hard drive in it with an SSD hard drive. The problem is, certain effects take forever! I got mLogo2, found here,and even rendering a 4 second logo with it in Final Cut X's latest version, can be a good 5-10 minute render.
Its totally unacceptable.
Right now, a microcenter near me, is selling
iMac 27 inch, MD096LL/A
i5 Quad Core 3.2ghz
Mac OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion
8 GB DDR3-1600 Ram
1 TB 7200 SATA Drive
Nvidia GeForce GTX 675MX (1 GB GDDR5 Video Memory)
It's $1,999.99 and currently you get $400 dollars off that instantly brand new.
I definitely like it but I want to know, does anyone working in Final Cut think I'll see a big difference in my render time upgrading to this? I assume I should but I wondered if anyone personally was working with this system and could say for certain.
iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)