Quote Originally Posted by Tone
I sure wish MZ could use complete words and sentences all the time - anyone else have trouble understanding his posts? Must be a lazy age thing.
Here you go Tone, better?

The macbook pro is a good notebook for video editing. It’s got a core duo, 1 gig ram (upgradeable), and an x1600. But u might want to wait for the new core2duo (megrim core) which is suppose to be 15-20% faster then the existing core duo. The main problem is tat the macbook pro starts at about 1700 and the top of the line is around 2500. For 1500 u could go with like a dell 1505 or a regular macbook. They both use basically the same hardware, core duo, 512-1gig ram, and the onboard Intel 950 video.

One thing to really look out for is hard drive room like nfp said. But I would go for a notebook with massive HD room. 1st 2.5" r slow the faster ones are 5400rpm compared to the standard 7200rpm on 3.5", 2nd they’re expensive most desktop HD r less then 1 dollar a gig but 2.5s r about if not more then 1 dollar per gig. There are plenty of CHEAP external solutions. I think last week there was a 500 GB HD at Costco for 150ish and an enclosure is about 30.

I don’t do video editing (ve) but I do gamin rigs which r very similar to ve setups. If your co-work is serious about ve then I would suggest he/she look into a desktop, they’re way cheaper to get going. With 1500 u can get a pretty respectable computer.