Portability - 90-95% of my use is at my desk, but 5-10 times a year I house-sit or rent a house where I’d like to be able to “travel” with the computer (to be clear, for me, this means plugging it into a wall at the destination - not using it on battery in an airport/coffee shop/hotel/etc). I can BYODKM - my displays, keyboard and mouse are in great working order My hope would be to make almost no other additional investments/upgrades for 5 years. I would love to add a 3rd 15.6” 1920x1080 (portable USB-C) display to stream TV/YouTube/etc, while I’m working between the other 2 displays. I see myself moving to 4K in 2020 (and upgrading a monitor to 4K/5K), with prosumer cameras like those listed above (nothing too crazy). I see myself upgrading from iMovie to FCPX next year (2019). The only thing I’m not concerned about are exporting times (whether a final export takes 30 mins or 90 mins makes very little difference to me). For video, I edit 10-12 projects a year, between 15-45 minutes each, that include stabilization, color grading and titles/effects. In Lightroom, I will make extensive corrections and use Photo Merge. I shoot photos RAW and currently film in 1080p. Highest priorities: 1) high performance photo and video editing, 1A) to own this computer for 5 yearsīudget Goal: $3,000, Absolute Max: $4,000 (if I can guarantee 5 years above average performance) It’s become very obvious it’s time for a new computer and I’d like to do that in the next week or so. I’ve filled the hard drive and am in the process of switching from Aperture/Pixelmator to Lightroom/Photoshop.
I love my MM (never had a problem), but it's showing its age.
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My current setup: Mac mini (Mid 2011), Intel Core i5, 8 GB 1333 DDR3, AMD Radeon HD 6630M 256MB, 500 GB SATAĭual displays - 24” 1920x1200 (for editing), 19” 1280x1024 (for email/text/MS Office), wireless Logitech mouse and keyboardĬameras: Canon G7XII, GoPro Hero 7, DJI SparkĪpps I currently use: iMovie, Aperture, Pixelmator, Garageband, iTunes, DJI Assistant, GoPro Studio, Handbrake, Hugin, MS Office