My wife and I are planning to purchase a new laptop and need recommendations on the most cost-effective hardware/software combination. I welcome input from anyone with relevant experience. By the way, this list has yet to steer me wrong with the many pleas I've posted in the past. Congratulations!
One of the principal tasks for the system will be to download and manipulate digital videos shot with a Sony digital videocam. We won't need much sophistication in the video manipulation - probably not much more than the ability to edit for length, cutting and pasting an hour or two of video into 20 - 30 minute packages that will then be burned to a DVD. A secondary task will be to take all of those family VHS tapes and load them onto DVDs for archiving and copying for family. Other tasks will include creating documents with MS Office applications. WiFi and Ethernet LAN connectivity will also be a must. It will be carried on commercial aircraft, along with the videocam, so a light configuration with a minimum of attachments would be appreciated. We have a number of computers running Windows, so my first inclination is to go for a Windows (which apparently means Vista) operating system. RAM, hard disk, video card, etc., recommendations are welcome. MTIA, Dan :-) ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
