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Budget (including currency): 1,200 - 1,500 USD Country: U.S.A. Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop (for some light 3d modeling) It is time to let my six-year-old iMac 27inch go. It's been my workhorse for video and photo-production, but its 2021 limitations include slow render times, a worthless GPU, and slow RAM (just to name a few). Last year I left my job in TV to start my own independent video production company, which means my budget for a new computer is really only as much as I can get for selling my current mac (which is roughly 1,200-1,500). I know this is low, but I also have to keep some budget held back to replace the 27inch 5k monitor that I will be losing as well. It would be impossible for me to adequately replace my mac with another at that price point, so it's time for me to make the switch. However, this decision leaves me with questions that I absolutely cannnnnnnnot find answers too anywhere on the internet. Keeping in mind that my only goal is video production, this is a small list of some of my concerns. -Can a PC play and edit any of my Quicktime H264 or ProRes files? -Can a PC play any BlackMagicRaw footage recorded onto an OSX formatted SSD -Can I use or access any of my OS Extended Hard Drives on a PC (I.E. all of my prior footage and projects files... speaking of... -Can I open Premiere Pro project files, made on a mac, on a pc -I refuse to use Android phones, is this a problem? I'm not as worried about prior projects as I am my backlog of video files of which I have at least 15 Terabytes spread across multiple drives. Any information or suggestions on this would be helpful, I would love to hear from someone who made a similar switch. Also, any recommendations on a pc build that meats my needs and budget would be appreciated as well. For reference below I have added my current specs just as a comparison. Thanks! iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014 3.5 Ghz Quad-Core Intel Core i5 24GB 1600 DDR3 AMD Radeon R9 M290X 2 GB

Yeah id say just spend the few extra bucks and get a Hero 7

What's your budget?

In theory couldnt you just pull up the stream on your phone and just put it in your pocket so you get the audio but can still watch it off of your laptop screen? I think there are some programs out there that will do what your looking for though.

I am a video editor who uses an imac as my main work station but windows keyboards as my peripherals. I have been able to use programs like Karabiner to remap these keybaords so they work with the mac keyboard layout, but the program is limited and doesn't offer input changes like modifier keys (i.e. I can remap "1" on my num pad to "A" but not "Cmd+A". Are there any other mac users out there that can recommend any programs to help with more intricate macros/ re-mappings? Especially programs that allow for multiple independent keyboards. If so, whats your configuration? I'm always curious to see what people use.

Just bought this board and am loving it! Thanks for the link!

I will say I have had this happen while using an external usb hub, even one that was usb 3.0. It slowed down mouse performance pretty significantly even if the mouse was plugged into the computer's on board ports. I switched to a bluetooth mouse and now it works fine no matter my configuration. (P.S. I know it was the hub causing the issue and not just the mouse itself because the mouse only acted up when the hub was plugged in)