I'm considering replacing our 8 Avid Xpress PC offline machines with Avid MC on Mac Pros. Is there any advice people can give before I embark on this rash move? Our Avid Adrenaline is a Mac Pro and as a educational facility we have FCP on quite a few Mac Pros already but I'd be hoping to run FCP on these new Macs alongside Avid MC.

Does FCP and Avid co-exist happily these days? Is MC more stable on PCs? Should I make sure I make the jump before Snow Leopard arrives? Will a PC upgrade when Windows 7 arrives throw up as many problems/delays as Snow Leopard?

Any advice from anyone who has made this move or anyone who can recommend this move would be very appreciated. i know this is a Mac forum but I know a lot of you work PC as well and have fairly balanced opinions regarding the merits of both platforms.

Thanks

Neither Windows 7 nor 10.6 will be supported by Avid out of the gate. We will need time to test them extensively before approval.

Avid is equally stable on either platform these days. It's really your personal preference at this point. I have MC on both PC and Mac and I can't say one is better than the other.

You can run MC and FCP on the same partition and I have been for years. You may want to consider either separate partitions or even separate Hods if you are concerned about OS updates affecting withe program individually.