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Biotech / Medical : The thread of life -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mike McFarland who wrote (1038)	6/24/2006 2:40:51 PM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1336

It has been several years since I bought a new personal computer--the last being an entry level Dell PC with a Celeron processor and a CD-writeable drive. I had hoped to put home videos onto CD-R's, but I was disappointed by the whole process: The 40 gigabyte hard drive filled up too fast with the captured analog video, and the process of generating SVHS or even just VHS quality video took a hour of 'rendering time' etc etc. And then my Sony DVD player would not even play the video! (even though it is supposed to read some CD roms) Come to think of it, I am not sure my video worked on my Samsung player either--and that device works much better than the older Sony. Anyway... I partly took advice here and bought a new PC, it has one of these "dual core" CPUs (I don't know what that will do for me, but it has to be an upgrade from the Celeron. Message 22552928 Once again I have shopped the Dell Outlet. I once vowed never to spend more than $500 on a new PC. With taxes and shipping I came in just under my limit. I remember spending around $2500 on my first PC, a 486. And then upgrading it over and over again. That is too much to spend on a PC when you can just wait a few years and buy cheaper. I suppose that is the same thing I do buying used Fords, heh. I'll report back after it shows up to my door and I've given it a good going over. It is a Dell 5150/E510 with "Pentium D--820" 2.8ghz intel.com This PC has four times the hard drive space of my old PC and a DVD burner. I sorted for PCs that had a gigabyte of system memory, and also found one with a low-end video card, but happened to have 256megs of ram on it--it is an ati x600se 256, but not sure that it will really do much more than basic onboard video would do for me (and it is not used as the capture card anyway). I own a Studio 8 DC10+ (I think that is it) from Pinnacle Systems that I will use for video capture. About once every ten years or so my folks pull out super 8 home movies of the family camping trips, Christmas morning, and lousy quality film of us skiing in the mid '70s. Pictures are nice and all that, but the few snippets of old home movies are pure gold.