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System advice: What (prebuilt) system do you recommend for $1200?
Hi All,
I am looking for a system to edit 1-2 hour family history interviews (with photos) and need to burn DVDs. I will be running V5 and DVDA2. I’m using an older Dell and want to upgrade for more speed and capability.
Dell, Sony? Any others I should consider?
My budget is about $1200.
Thanks for any advice you can offer.
–Hollington Lee
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7 Replies
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I use a sony vaio at home for these types of projects as well as the marching band videos I prepare for the local high school. Have not had any issues and it works well. I think its a 3.0 ghz, 1gb ram, 2 160gb harddrives). I think it was about $1300 before adding the extra hard drive.
Hope that helps.
Mike
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Dell has been having some amazingly cheap offers lately on
systems. I would recommend them.in my case, I just got a P4 2.8ghz Hyper threading cpu, 512mb ram,
onboard audio, video & network card and a 40gb hard drive with xp home installed plus a mouse and a keyboard AND a free 15 inch LCD screen
for 399 (after $ 100 rebate) now thats a deal! I couldn’t build
one for cheaper than that and this system has an intel chipset
motherboard. I thought it would be an el cheapo SIS or VIA.For 1,200 you should be able to get a smokin editing system at DELL.
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I am not a big dell fan but that does sound like a good deal.
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For horespower with class, Alienware is hard to beat. They are not the cheapest systems around, but they are built for speed. Also, you can’t beat the looks of these things.
Alienware build systems for speed, and only for speed. Check out the Area 51 at alienware.com.
I am in no way affiliated with alienware, but I have been a very happy customer for a long time and I keep coming back for more.
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If you go P4 I would stick with an Intel board. They are stable and I never get system lock-ups. I have a PowerSpec from Micro Center that was a very good price and nearly 2 years old now. I will get a dual core when the price starts to become more reasonable. Next system will need some horsepower when I go to HDV. I most likely will head that way after I get Vegas 7!
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well 1,289 actually (no monitor either, but hey its a Xeon)
Xeon
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Dells are hard to come by in Europe. Anybody had good experiences with IBM Intellistations (MPro or ZPro) or HP 8000?
thanks
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