DaNuKa_SAN wrote:id even suggest gettimg an iBook or other type of portable Mac...theyll render much better than any laptop runnning intel or AMD for video...
What?
Are you on crack? An iBook is easily the slowest solution out of the ones you've named. Seriously...an iBook? Do you even know how slow those run? Even by your guidelines it'd be too slow. An iBook's top speed is 1.2 Ghz. I don't understand how that can even come close to a
64-bit 2.0+ Ghz chip with Hyper-transport.
Oh and I know speed != Performance, but in this case, it's a known fact the AMD core is more efficient than the Apple core *and* it's obviously faster. That equates to a double loss for Apple and effectively the slowest chip on the market.
And how does this all equate to the fastest for video editing? I don't know how:
slowest processor + slowest memory = fastest editing

Do you have any benchmarks or well...any proof to back-up your statements? If not, I suggest you not make such outlandish ones.
You should brush up on your tech knowledge before making suggestions. It would suck for him to actually go with your recommendation and in turn have an outdated paperweight.

Also as I said earlier, your video card does very little to editing unless you buy something like say a Matrox X10/100.
aznfs wrote:the hard drive is the problem i want to get a 7200rpm hard drive and big like 80gb+ because i dont want to be hauling around an external everywhere<-- and i would need somewhere to plug this xternal in.
Uhm, you do realize there's no major laptop manufacturer with 7200 RPM hard-drives. The best you're most likely to find is 5400 RPM. I'm not at all saying they don't exist, but it will surely take some time before they become a standard. I strongly suggest an external for editing since the most you'll get is *maybe* 80 GB internally and I for one use quite a bit more than that to edit with (multiple projects).
Although I don't edit often on my laptop (not that powerful), I did buy an external HD to do it since the internal is too slow. You can get a 7200 RPM 8 MB cache external for ~100 - 200 bucks and that's a decent investment.