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PC to Mac Switching Pains (Part 2)

So now that my iTunes and iPhoto setup is done (sort of), I moved my attention to trying to create the first of hopefully many family movies that will inevitably embarrass the kids (hopefully they’ll still pick a suitable retirement home for their mom & dad!).

The importing of existing videos from the external hard drive that was salvaged from the HP and placed in an external enclosure was seamless. The videos were added to events and their date/time stamps were visible to iMovie. This helped in annotating and adding bottom thirds to my movie. The clips can also be filtered by criteria, thus showing the clips that made sense to use as source matter. So far, I’m liking iMovie over Premiere Elements.

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PC to Mac Switching Pains (Part 1)

So we made the leap. Our HP Pavilion A1211N, which admittedly was bought off the shelf because it was at the right price-point, finally died a sudden and graceless death after three years of faithful (ok two good years, one not so good) service.

Note: both the author and all members of the household have been cleared of all suspicions of foul play.

The Hardware

As our PC was the only computer in the house, other than our work laptops, we were quick to respond. I had been lobbying for well over a year for an Apple. So although we were leaning towards the Macbook Pro, we considered all Apple models. We finally settled on a 15” Macbook Pro, whose specs are as follows:

  • 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
  • 4 GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 SDRAM
  • 320GB Serial ATA 5400 RPM hard drive
  • NVIDIA GeForce 9400M + 9600M GT with 256MB Graphics

We opted to add the iWork suite, both for the feature set and the simplified requirements for our home computer. So far we have not found any feature lacking, and the MS Office compatibility has proven adequate to date.

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