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NVIDIA GeForce

...or...

ATI Radeon?




Depends. Some people have a personal preference. In addition, often a given ATI model of PCI Express card will whip an onboard, integrated NVidia chipset, and vice versa for Nvidia's full cards.



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I was also surprised to see that a full version of Final Cut Studio (one of 3? versions) was $1000. Is that normal? I didn't know it was so pricey, in comparison to whatever version it was that I saw in Office Max the other day (Final Cut Express maybe?).




Wikipedia does a half-decent job explaining the differences between FCE and FCP.