On 12/5/06, Stephen Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My fathter wants an inexpensive computer which will connect to an ADSL broadband connection, He also wants to do video editing so it has to have some reasonable specs.
You will be able to edit videos for the web, eg. Google Video, YouTube, etc, on almost anything (ie ~$50 second hand PC or better). Editing in HD will require some grunt, and dual monitors are preferable. I priced up a decent system for a friend a while back - 3 HDDs, 2GB RAM, dual monitors, UPS, decent other bits for $2.5K For video editing you will really want firewire. This can be added for $20-30 to most computers, but would probably be faster if you got a computer with it already on the motherboard. Video card just needs to support dual monitors and TV out. All it has to do is process the overlay, so it can be pretty minimal in other aspects $50-100 should suffice. Make sure you get hard drives with large buffers and get as many as you can afford (up to 4 is a good idea).
Where can I get an inexpensive (I think it will have to be Linux) computer?
Second hand/auctions
Or how can I get some broadband connectivity on 8 year old x86 architecture? (even if it's not Linux Compatable)
PCI network card: $5-$20. If the computer doesn't have PCI slots then you can get one that does for <$20 but you should be able to find one for free. I was giving away some PIIs that would happily run Linux (if I hadn't taken out the RAM :-P) a while back. You should be able to pick up a PII or P3 out of the paper for <$50 or off the curb next clean up :-) Ben -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
