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Originally Posted by tryfuhl

You'll be hard pressed to find a laptop nowadays that won't meet those requirements. What formats and resolutions are you shooting video on? If you're shooting in say 1080p from an HD camcorder you'll need something beefier. If it's like 480 pretty much anything will do that.



I'd hold off of the netbook as most of the good ones are 300-500 bucks and you can get a solid 14 or 15 inch for that price. Plus typing on those things is a bitch.



Yes, the newer celerons should be fine. How much are you looking to spend? It's not too much to get a better processor model.


Yes. If it's expandable cool



Vista after SP1 was pretty much fine. I hate how some of the settings are placed but as far as actual function, no big deal. A lot of desktop manufacturers are allowing a free copy of Windows 7 when it comes out, maybe they're doing the same for laptops, not sure. I have a Windows 7 build I've been playing around with and it's great. I was also able to run it on an athlon xp 2900+ with 1.25gb ddr RAM without real issue



Nope, but what's your budget?

Budget is in the $400-500 range. Thanks for the help!