Ok. Let's forget uncompressed 10bit for now.
Would the G550 be good just for dslr (and photos)? There's also a monster ATX on the way that I would share with a family member that does 3D work. But, about 99% of the time, I would work on pictures and, maybe, DSLR footage for 5-20min short films but rarely since it's all personal - and even less with uncompressed or cine-raw. By the time I'll need a monster a lot, I'll make enough money to buy a new monster.
I read that technically you can fit two SSDs in the G550 if you remove the optical drive. Am I missing something? It sounds like that option is just as good as if I had two drive bays. Remember: I don't need my optical drive - those are just as dead for me.
The G750 series seem too heavy, at almost 5kg, and bulky. I might compromise with this 3.5kg slim N750 if I can find out what's up with their screen. I keep reading on websites "Active Matrix TFT Color LCD". What is that, a cheaper TN LCD? Bill, what's your experience with your screen on the G750? For photography I'd prefer something highly accurate - I've had frustrating experiences with TN. I don't game, I rarely edit so I don't care about refresh rates for this screen - colour accuracy, especially outdoors, is highly needed.
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Past Editing Experience (working with slugs)
I edited before on a HP dv7 [ Intel Core Duo P7350 / 4GB of DDR2 / GeForce 9600M GT 512mb / 5400rmp HDD, 1TB ]. Of course it was a slow pain in the ***. But I managed after all. What I didn't like: long times for rendering, hard to see full preview in HD, choppy, freezing.
I guess I'm looking for some instant gratification solution at least for dslr compressed HD editing, where I could edit 1 video stream in real time without waiting on the processor for general editing operations. The MSI GT72 is nice but I feel it's rather overkill for my case at more than twice the price. I'd stay as close to 1200$ with this purchase. So, is this G550 going to be enough for an everage 20min dslr short film that is light on effects? If not, please detail as much as you can. Because, what you consider a problem, might be acceptable for me.
How much of a difference would make upgrading to 16GB of ram?
Andrei
