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To: JC Jaros who wrote (25252)	1/5/2000 2:52:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) of 64865

JCJ - that connector is a 1394 "firewire" connector. I have a CPQ Presario 5900 which my camcorder plugs right into - the images dump right onto the local PC hard disk (which is 30GB BTW) in MPEG format, a half-hour of video uses about 2GB or so... I can easily do simultaneous display, frame-by-frame sync, grab and enhance single frames for photos, etc. I am running the RC3 version of Windows 2000 on that machine. I am just an amateur at this but the system I have does everything I need to do and does it fast. The CPQ 5900 has a 750MHz AMD processor, DVD, CD burner, 128MB RAM, multiple USB and 1394 ports - I bought it for less than $2000 just to do video stuff but also browse from that machine - all my home stuff is on 11Mb RF Ethernet. I have heard lots of horror stories about people getting hosed up doing things with Win9X (I don't use it myself, have been primarily NT and Unix for about 5 years) but frankly, I have heard even more horror stories about folks who had insufficient technical prowess to get around on Unix, and clearly Unix is the most robust and flexible OS of the bunch. I hate MAC stuff, it's for kids IMO.

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