This question is totally dependant upon situation. Are you editing for television or independent film? If so then yes FCP, Liquid, ext.... thats the way to go. Are you big-time? Do you spend more on your "next bit hit" than you did on you Bently? Then AVID, there is no substitute. Are you a budget minded consumer? Don't wanna spend more than a couple G on just an editing rig? Then PC is the way to go. I work with both FCP and Premiere in a professional environment (with AE on both systems

) and can tell you that the biggest difference in the systems is: stability, output (export settings), and masking traits. All of which the mac have over the PC, though The PC for AMVing is much more suited for the popular codecs, that does not mean that its not available mac-side, just not as easy to come by. Thats said as cheep as PCs are to come by any mac user who publishes online would be a fool not to have a cheep PC on the side for minor encoding and batching.

<Orwell> WTF are they doing upstairs. Almost sounds like construction
<[Kristyrat]> Orwell, you see / <[Kristyrat]> when a man really likes a woman / <[Kristyrat]> or has a bottle of chloroform
<inthesto> He takes her stuff / <inthesto> And then poops in her vagina