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I specced my machine specifically for video editing. This was at least 3 years ago!!!
I have an Athlon 1Ghz, 512Mb PC133 memory and 4x hard disks -
1x 60gb for software, data swap etc
1x 30gb for capture
1x 30gb for editing
1x 30gb for print to tape builds
all the disks are IBM IDE ATA100 disks
My old machine was a Pentium 2 400Mhz with 512Mb PC100 memory
It has 3x Seagate 10,000 rev SCSI-UW disks for video editing. I use this for analogue capture from a hi-8 source.
Both these machines give me good editing at a decent speed with no dropped frames. Indeed the software I use (Adobe Premier 5.1c) automatically goes back to the camera and gets dropped frames if it comes across any when using a DV source connected via firewire.
Todays machines for circa £700 knock the socks of that spec so I don't think even today's minimum spec will prove "too slow". Just make sure you get firewire to connect the cam.
My recomendations is to go for more memory and disk in preference to the fastest processor you can get. The new multi-threading technology present in the latest P4-3ghz isn't generally used by the editing software yet so will take a while to filter in and be usefull.
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