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Posted by treenoakio@googlemail.com on May 6, 2008, 3:57 am
Please log in for more thread options > iws typed on Mon, 5 May 2008 12:52:35 -0700:
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> >> Hi, My daughter was just given an Acer Travelmate 2420 by her friend
> >> who's upgraded to a Mac laptop.
> >> The Travelmate 2420 has a Celeron M CPU and 40GB HD. I know it can be
> >> upgraded to 2GB of RAM and I hope it can accept a several hundred GB
> >> hard drive. If I do upgrade the memory and HD, will the laptop have
> >> the capacity to run graphics and video editing software reasonably
> >> well, or will the Celeron M processor not be up to that level of
> >> task? --
> >> Regards,
> >> Dick Treen
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> > The weak link here for video editing is the Celeron CPU. Assuming it
> > works at all with the latest video editing software - and you should
> > check it out beforehand with a trial of one of the common consumer
> > programs - it will be agonizingly slow at rendering a video project.
> > No amount of added memory or hard drive space will compensate for
> > that. Also, if you plan to capture video from a tape-based camcorder,
> > you will need a firewire port on the laptop.
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> I have two of the following:
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> Gateway Celeron M 370 (1.5GHZ)
> MX6124 (laptop) w/1GB
> Windows XP Home SP2 (60GB HD)
> Intel(r) 910GML (64MB shared)
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> And I do video editing with it (WinDVR v1.8 and a TV tuner card -
> KW-TVUSB506RF-PRO) and it is so much better than my older:
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> HP AMD Athlon 1.2 GHZ
> 512MB of RAM (Desktop)
> Windows XP Home SP2
> NVIDIA GeForce2 MX400 (64MB installed)
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> Games and flight simulators run so much better on this Celeron M too vs.
> that older AMD with a NVIDIA video card.
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> --
> Bill
Thanks, I'll take the upgrade route. The cost will be small compared
with buying a new, low-end notebook.
--
Regards,
Dick Treen
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