PC or iMac for professional video editing.

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Hello all,

My business is starting to take off and I will be doing a lot of editing professionally.  Its been driving me nuts trying to pick between PC or iMac, every few hours for the last week or so I have changed my mind.  I use Premiere Pro and After Effects mainly, my budget is $4000 which is between either a custom PC or a 27" maxed out iMac.  Im planning on going into film production/post production down the road but not a huge consideration, by then I will most likely have a different computer.

Considerations:

I would prefer PC but as im going professional if an iMac would be better im willing to go that route.  Whatever will move my job forward.

The iMac would be the build in 5K display with a 1080P monitor.  (Specs maxed)

The PC would be connected to a 4K monitor with two 1080P monitors.  (Specs=Beast)

I have heard there will most likely be a new iMac next month but its all roomer.

I an experienced with both a PC and a Mac.

Basically I want to get my job done well, professionally, and I don't want to hurt my career based on my choice of computer.

Thanks for any responses! 

[Sheena Kaul]

Moving to Premiere Pro​

[Peru Bob]

Moving to the Hardware Forum.

[RoninEdits · Accepted solution]

if you end up working someplace, it might be mac only, pc only, or mixed, or they might not even be using adobe. i would guess more places still run mac than pc for creative work. if you just want one computer that will allow for everything, its going to be mac which can run avid, fcpx and adobe. if you want to focus on adobe for now and have a more powerful computer, you could get a very good windows computer for $2-3k and still have enough left over for a mac to tinker with.

one of the things adobe cannot do natively on windows is create prores files. some people use a mac to transcode, some use third party software for windows, many which are questionable.

[Bill_Gehrke]

Here on the forum we see quite a few people switching from Mac to PC because Apple is not keeping up to date on hardware.

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Really?  Any idea why they started neglecting it?  Maybe Mac wont be the standard soon.

[Bill_Gehrke]

Apple wants big quantity (iPhone) and they cut back seriously FCP with FCPX