Mac Pro :: Ideal Mac Pro Specs For Home DVD Burnning?

Nov 23, 2008

I intend to burn close to 30 hours of home HD videos on hopefully HD disks like Blu-ray. I tried the Toast 9 and successfully burned a 15 minute HD on a regular DVD however on my MacBook 2.16 GHz with 2 GB RAM it took few hours for encoding.

Question #1: can any hardware piece ie: elgato's Turbo.264 will make a siginificant difference in encoding time

OR...

question#2: I need to shell out money for a powerful Mac Pro with an internal 3rd party BR burner (about $500), and if so, then what are ideal specs, dual core, quad core...RAM size, video card speed...etc.

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Mainboard

nVIDIA nForce 680i SLI (eVGA) (1)
Intel X48 (ASUS) (2)

Processor

Core 2 Duo X6800 Extreme (2.9 ghz)

Graphics Cards
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Memory

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4 MB Ram
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NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics
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With this monitor:
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or

24" iMac
2.66 GHz Processor
4GB Ram
640 GB Hard Drive
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics
2 External hard drives: one as backup and one to bring back and forth to school

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Questions about specs first...

I'd use the comp for:the regular stuff (internet, email, word docs, music)
quite a bit of graphics work in programs such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and Painter
Bootcamp for a few graphics-intensive games (Cabal, Assassin's Creed, ...Maplestory? lol)
Bootcamp for graphics programs that aren't available for the mac os

So, on the following 2 specs, please tell me which option would be good, but not redundantly powerful.

Core2Duo/ i3/ i5/ i5 Quad/ i7 Quad

ATI Radeon... 4670 with 256MB/ 4850 with 512MB/ 5670 with 512MB/ 5750 with 1GB

I'm also trying to decide on size. 21.5" is actually a fine size for me, but the maximum specs for 21"s are 3.6GHz, i5, 5670 with 512MB. If this is enough ("comfortably enough"... I don't want "just enough") for my needs, then great. Otherwise I'll have to look at the 27"s for better specs-- unless you know how to beef up the 21" while keeping it cheaper than the 27"s.

Price isn't tooo much of an issue. I can afford up to a 27", 2.93GHz, i7 Quad, 5750 with 1GB. But if my maximum uses require significantly less than that, then I don't want to pay for power that's so far beyond necessary.

"Buy the best you can afford" is tempting, but in the end I'm a little too pragmatic and stingy for that.

Any advice/pointers/stories from experience would be welcome!

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