Please stick to facts and don't be bias here. I have never used a video editing program bar windows movie maker so I don't have much knowledge on this front (so please keep things simple
).
Anyway, my girlfriend and her parents are in a bit of a sticky situation atm. Her mum works as a actress and her dad is a director. She is wanting to go to college to do a course on photography and video so they need a good pc for video editing. They are, however finding it very hard to get work atm so money is everything when it comes to the cost of a pc/mac. From what I understand (or what they have told me) Mac's are superior to Pc's when it comes to video editing. Is this entirely true? Doesn't it come down to heardware in the end?
Right now they have a celeron d 3.4ghz pc with 2gb ram, integrated gfx, pirate windows 7 lol (I have a spare windows vista ultimate that I can install tho
)
Bearing in mind they are completely skint would it be a good idea to buy second hand and get something like this?
Q6600 (Oc to 3ghz) - £80
P45 mobo - £50
4GB ram - £50
GTX260 or 4870 - £90/70
New case - £30
DVD Drive - £20
1TB HDD - £60
PSU £60
Total - ~£400 with KB + Mouse.

Anyway, my girlfriend and her parents are in a bit of a sticky situation atm. Her mum works as a actress and her dad is a director. She is wanting to go to college to do a course on photography and video so they need a good pc for video editing. They are, however finding it very hard to get work atm so money is everything when it comes to the cost of a pc/mac. From what I understand (or what they have told me) Mac's are superior to Pc's when it comes to video editing. Is this entirely true? Doesn't it come down to heardware in the end?
Right now they have a celeron d 3.4ghz pc with 2gb ram, integrated gfx, pirate windows 7 lol (I have a spare windows vista ultimate that I can install tho

Bearing in mind they are completely skint would it be a good idea to buy second hand and get something like this?
Q6600 (Oc to 3ghz) - £80
P45 mobo - £50
4GB ram - £50
GTX260 or 4870 - £90/70
New case - £30
DVD Drive - £20
1TB HDD - £60
PSU £60
Total - ~£400 with KB + Mouse.