Sony Vaio VGC-RM1 for HD editing

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sodotoguwangus

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Hey
I'm in the market for a new video editing computer for my HVX. What do you guys think of the new Sony Vaio VGC-RM1 for HD video editing? Is it a good computer? It costs $3,500 (and it does not even come with a screen!).

I'm not a computer guy, but based on the specs, it looks pretty darn good to me. What do you guys think???

# Intel® Centrino® Duo Mobile Technology with Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor
# Genuine Windows Vista™ Business
# DVD+-R Double Layer/DVD+-RW Drive2 with Blu-Ray Disc™ Support
# 2GB RAM and 1TB hard drive
# NVIDIA® GeForce® 7600GT Graphics
 
Seems a little bit of overkill to me.

Vaios tend to be over priced.

A similarly configured HP or Dell might be a better bargain.
 
I know two people who have Sony VAIO systems, and both had problems.

Each of these systems came with two optical drives, one DVD burner and one DVD-ROM, and in both systems, the DVD burner died. In the older of these two systems, the optical drives use a narrower than standard form-factor, so I was not able to replace the drive with an inexpensive generic DVD burner.

In the other system (a multimedia PC running Windows XP MCE), the SATA hard drive also failed catastrophically. Of course my friends (like most unsophisticated computer users) didn't have a backup, causing them to lose pictures of their wedding, newborn son, documents related to a lawsuit, and tons of other stuff.

Of course these things can happen with any brand, but even if you encounter no problems, you still wind up with an overpriced system that may use proprietary components. For $3,500, I would expect a quad-core system and a 8800 GTX video card.
 
I know that the dual quad-core systems are coming out now...in comparison, does that mean that the Core 2 Duo Processor is crap?

I mostly concerned about the processor.
 
It's not crap by any stretch of the imagination. They are still state-of-the-art for laptops, and while quad-core laptops will undoubtedly eventually become commonplace, the Core 2 processors are more than adequate for editing HD video, and certainly a better choice than the Pentium D models.

The only caveat is that the Mobile versions of the Core 2 processor are really intended for laptops, with lower power consumption, heat output, and noise (less cooling needed). To achieve that, they run at slower clockspeeds than the non-Mobile counterparts.
 
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