Well after 2 days of agonising over what PC to upgrade to for serious HD editing and Blu-ray authoring I`ve let my heart rule my head (and wallet!) and actually bought the Sony VGC-RM1N rather than a high spec adapted PC., despite my rant above.
I almost bought an impressive HP 8180 PC (Quad chip; 3GB RAM;etc) at PC World and they offered to install an off the shelf Sony Blu-Ray burner and exrra drive while I waited - then discovered the portable 350GB drive meant there was no space in the chasis to fit the extra hard drive (for sole use in capturing HD footage).
So decided to go for the all-in-one (well 2 Units) option. Main problem in getting it to do what it should seems to be the Vista platform which seems to be incompatible with my wi-fi broadband so after hours of trying I can`t get the installed Ble-Ray software to work.
I`ll post a full review when I`ve sorted out the problems.
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Change of mind about the Sony VGC-RM1N
Well after 2 days of agonising over what PC to upgrade to for serious HD editing and Blu-ray authoring I`ve let my heart rule my head (and wallet!) and actually bought the Sony VGC-RM1N rather than a high spec adapted PC., despite my rant above.
I almost bought an impressive HP 8180 PC (Quad chip; 3GB RAM;etc) at PC World and they offered to install an off the shelf Sony Blu-Ray burner and exrra drive while I waited - then discovered the portable 350GB drive meant there was no space in the chasis to fit the extra hard drive (for sole use in capturing HD footage).
So decided to go for the all-in-one (well 2 Units) option. Main problem in getting it to do what it should seems to be the Vista platform which seems to be incompatible with my wi-fi broadband so after hours of trying I can`t get the installed Ble-Ray software to work.
I`ll post a full review when I`ve sorted out the problems.
David Luxton