[Floyd Fernandez]

Wow, thanks for responding. I am just getting my feet wet. So, all the help I can get is welcomed. I am the one man band on my shoots, so I am always on the move and doing my edits in any little space I can fit. Right now I have Cs3 master suite a little over kill but it does what I need to so far. It all runs on a Dell studio 1555 and I do my capturing on onlocation. I get a good 2 hour run time on it before I need to plug in. Next buy is a bigger laptop battery! I shoot with a HDR-FX1 I like to edit in 1080i. With some of the things I have seen on the demos CS5 is what I want to be doing. So I would like to stay portable if it is ok to do so, but if it takes a desktop to do those wonderful things than a desktop is what I\’ll get. Do the Dell laptops have the kind of graphics card to use the mercury play back system?