I'm running a Dell Latitude notebook with a PIII 600 and 128 mb RAM...I'm using a Maxtor PCMCIA OHCI compatible FireWire card with 2 ports; one for my hard drive (external Maxtor 3000DV 7200rpm) and the other for my camera and Sony media converter...I can fit it all in my laptop bag and edit wherever I please...I'm very happy with my setup...I've had minimal problems...I'm looking to add some more RAM and eventually another Maxtor drive but as far as the system itself goes, it's been smooth...

I'm running a Gateway Solo 9300XL notebook with a 750mhz PIII cpu, 2x 20gb hard drives and firewire built in. On one drive I have Windows 2000, and on the other a modified version of Windows Me. Modified using 98 Lite (www.98lite.net). Vegas Video runs so much faster on this modified Windows Me installation than it does on Windows 2000. Mainly screen redraws. Things can get a bit slow running a project with a thousand or so edits. Especially zooming in and out. That's where you'll notice the difference. Overall it's a dream to be able to edit video on a laptop away from home.

I also have a VX Pocket 24 bit PCM audio card on board. Although it won't work if the notebook's being run from the battery. The biggest problem is with the drives only being 5400rpm. Although this is fine for video and 16bit audio, I've not been able to get any more than 8 tracks of 24bit audio at 44.1khz.

no, it doesn't...so you wouldn't be able to use the hard drive on the road or on the train, for example...but what I do is copy a folder with footage from the Maxtor drive to my system drive so that I can work on small segments when I can't use the Maxtor drive...then I just copy the folder back...you can't work on full blown projects but at least you can still work...