On 02 Jun 2003 07:02:40 GMT, dvddaddy2@aol.comYERPANTS (Tommy Versecitti) wrote:

>What's a good computer system with a built in DVDR that I can Pull out of the

>box slap Pinnacle on and start editing with? My price range is about 2500

We used to design and build (and sell) our own editing

computers when this was still difficult. Now almost any

decent inexpensive computer will work... I just bought

a 2.66GHz P-4 with 256 megs RAM (and added 512 megs for

$30), 120-gig HD, and a fancy 128-meg dual-head Geforce

4 TI 4200 video card etc. - with all other parts also

good, for $700 (!!!) from an Aldi grocery store(!!!). I

replaced the DVD reader and CD writer with a $170 CenDyne

(Pioneer) DVD/CD writer, and added two 80-gig drives and

a fancy 24-bit/96KHz sound card. Total, minus two cheap

used 17" monitors: about $1200 (and it comes with a handy

front-panel patch bay for everything under the sun,

including slots for all the common still-camera memory

media). We can't build computers from parts this good

for this amount of money anymore...