Posts by Fuse

My comment "biased", came from the fact that you are only mentioning NOT NEED, CAN DO, in capital leters without backing it up with facts and taking the lowest denominator as your middle ground. The only fact that has held in...

ThunderPC, you are jumping all across the board talking in one post about the gpu, the hard drive on another, without giving explanations about your points of view. Just biased comments. 40-50hours worth of editing, is like saying i...

Not arguing, discussing what i think is bad advice. 4mb/sec would be firewire dv. I am not blindly oposing you. What i am editing right now is 3.5 mb/sec, pertty gooq quality firewire dv capture. Thinking that you might edit only Dv...

Ram is most important. But zoom in and out, scroll and pan, hide/unhide , thats graphics card. I agree, 64 mb Geforce is just fine for that work though.

You did : "a ton of video editing on my 4200RPM drive. " ?? I dont know what kind of editing you do. But storing video in a 4200 rpm drive for editing, this is the first time i hear it in my 7 years of doing this job....

If youll be doing editing, the video card IS important. And trust me you NEED at least a 7200 rpm harddrive. You can get an external firewire drive to store the video and divide it in two partitions, one for audio one for video, or even...

sorry to sort of hijack the thread but ive been meaning to ask for a list of laptops with Nvidia cards, and didnt want to start a new thread without any other info.. anyone ? thanks

Hey there, There's a few of us here doing 3d. I have been reading this forum (excellent source) for a while and still havent decided exactly what to get. The question is, how much serious work (3d) will you do with the lappy? Are...

Yes, most probably will be quite expensive. Keep in mind the FireGL is not a gaming card. But for us that do 3d work, that thing can push quite some geometry. I will be keeping an eye on this bad boy.

very helpful thread to clear up ideas. Will look even better when people start adding the reviews