Laptop Config for editing

Timhockey wrote on 6/3/2003, 5:25 AM

Anyone using external 1394 drives on Dell laptops ? If so what brand and what issues if any are you seeing. My comapny provides a subsidy to purchase a Dell so I am looking at a P4 2.4.

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Grazie wrote on 6/3/2003, 5:30 AM

Yup -4 external Maxtors via a Maxtor PCMCIA card. 1x60gb; 1x80gb and 2x120gb. After an initial Firmware fix from a good bloke in Maxtor Ireland, the new 120gbs are purring nicely away. I've had ongoing fan/s switching on/off Blue Flash dropout. I'm presuming your newer Dellies wont have the BIOS problem though.

Grazie

MDVid wrote on 6/3/2003, 8:32 AM

Firewire ADS pyro kit with Western Digital 120 GB drives X 2 on a dell Ispiron 1.2 Ghz, and a Dell Inspiron 1.7 Ghz. Never a hiccup.

JTH

johnmeyer wrote on 6/3/2003, 11:37 AM

You'll have no problem at all. I use a Compaq Presario 700 MHz laptop. Until recently it had a 4200 rpm drive. I captured using a PCMCIA IBM 1394 capture card to this slow drive with no dropped frames. If you have DMA turned on, and background programs turned off, you really don't need a very exotic machine to capture and edit video. Your prospective laptop will work just fine.