[boddom]

hi!

I have an hdv (canon a1s) and avchd (sony se12) cams and i need new laptop for editing... but i`m a bit low on budget

would this work for me?

HP HDX X18-1190EZ Premium Notebook PC reviews, specifications and price

tnx guys

[MarkE19]

Looking at the specs of the laptop it does seem to have all the required connections for getting the video onto it - ie firewire (ieee1394) for the HDV cam and USB for the AVCHD cam. 500Gb HDD should be plenty of space for now, but an eSATA port for connecting a fast external HDD is very good. 4Gb of RAM should help to speed rendering & file conversion along.

You might want to have a search through this forum for other threads on PC specs for editing AVCHD as it can require a very powerful CPU. The laptop does have a quad core CPU, but laptops don't always offer the best performance compared to a desktop PC. But I will leave it to your searching and others with experience of AVCHD editing to comment on this as I don't have an AVCHD cam.

Mark.

[boddom]

the spec sounded pretty fine to me too... but i`ll do more research... thanks a lot

M

[schander]

Originally Posted by boddom

hi!

I have an hdv (canon a1s) and avchd (sony se12) cams and i need new laptop for editing... but i`m a bit low on budget

would this work for me?

HP HDX X18-1190EZ Premium Notebook PC reviews, specifications and price

tnx guys

On first look at the spec with the url above it looked as though your hd might be the slowest part of the system. However looking at the spec on the hp website i see that it's 2x250gb drive, i assume in raid 1 (striped), which is more than fast enough for editing. It looks as though its a pretty good spec.

BTW What the price your getting it for?

Satpal

[maxsquared]

Originally Posted by schander

On first look at the spec with the url above it looked as though your hd might be the slowest part of the system. However looking at the spec on the hp website i see that it's 2x250gb drive, i assume in raid 1 (striped), which is more than fast enough for editing. It looks as though its a pretty good spec.

BTW What the price your getting it for?

Satpal

Did you mean Raid 0?

[schander]

Originally Posted by maxsquared

Did you mean Raid 0?

Yes I did, i always get them mixed up....

Satpal