Hello all: I have my little old 233 Wallstreet II. I'm thinking of giving it a good upgrade, upping the memory to 512, replacing the hard drive with a 5400 rpm drive and upgrading the processor to the Sonnet WS G4 500. I run OSX on it now and for what I do (word processing and internet mostly) it's perfectly adequate. I have done some light video editing with iMovie and the most frustrating part is building those damn transitions. They take forever. I just bought a DV camera, so I'm looking at consumer video editing in earnest now.
Are any of you using your upgraded wallstreets in this way and if so can you describe your level of satisfaction with the upgrades. I'd also like to hear how much improvement memory and a hard drive improved the experience. Finally, I'd like to know if anyone is using an external firewire drive for video editing and if anyone can speak to the real world difference the oxford 911 chipset makes, I'm all ears. Is there any difference in the dv to hard drive thruput of the plain internal hard drive, expansion bay hard drive, external firewire drive on multiple i/o card, external firewire drive on firewire hub, external firewire drive on daisychain with camera hooked to extra port on drive (And if problems with this arrangment does the oxford chipset help)? John Slavin Kirksville, MO [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
