On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Rodney Peterson wrote:
> Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Version
>
> 233 MHz
>
> Does adding a DVD-ROM mean I should upgrade the processor and use a more
> powerful battery for viewing DVD movies and music video?
If you can't get some kind of hardware assist for your computer to
play DVD movies, you're not going to get anything near smooth playback
with a 233 Mhz machine.
Make sure that wherever you buy parts, they can be returned if
you're not happy with the results.
Video editing requires huge amounts of horsepower (CPU/RAM/HD) to
really work well, and I'm not thrilled with my Athlon 700 or a PII 550
(both with 128M ram) for video editing.
Laptop hard drives are much slower, so you'll feel the burn there
as well.
> And, I would like to use it in my mobile DJ setup as a DVD/CD player for
> DVD music videos, mainly. Can this computer be hooked up via audio
> output to an audio mixer and via S-Video (?) output to an external
> television or video mixer for this purpose?
It'll work as a CD/MP3 player. If you wanted a more all purpose
tool, I'd get a SONY VAIO instead (a co-worker has one with a 750 Mhz PIII
processor, 256M ram, DVD Drive, CD-RW drive, S-Video output, TOSLink
output, etc. It's amazing for a laptop. But then, the price is huge
too.[1])
-Jim
[1] To the point where he will not admit it. It's above $3500. That's
all I know.
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