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[thuviaptarth]

So I have this crazy friend who wants to know, if you were going to get an ultraportable notebook, which one would be best for vidding? (Yes, it has to be a laptop.) Like, the laptop that is ideal for carrying around to write in cafes and/or steal wireless to check your email and also a vidding power machine. Because those aren't completely

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[giandujakiss]

Hee.

I can't help on laptops; keep in mind you're inevitably gonna need an external hard drive, though.

[giandujakiss]

Well, I have these small and easily movable external drives, and I can take a couple of them with me and my laptop when I travel. However, my computer gets unhappy when I use a firewire for vidding; I use USB.

[thuviaptarth]

Yes, but how many gigs?

[nestra]

*eyes you suspiciously*

[minim_calibre]

It might be Mac time... (If I hadn't filled mine up with, umm, due South, I was going to use it for vidding, but at the moment, all that we've used Final Cut Express for is transferring Paul's old film school projects to digital.)

[jacquez]

[full disclosure: my husband is an engineer for Apple, and I do some very minor video editing, but nothing particularly intensive.]

The Mac Air is incredibly lightweight, and pretty powerful for what it is. My husband says "it's actually just shy of being a reasonable development machine" (by which he means intensive application development). It might be worth looking at.

[oracne]

[peers suspiciously]