So I finally got around to buying that computer today.  It only took me three months or so of thinking about it to actually do it. 

Well, I’ve ordered it through the UMass computer store.  That way I made sure to get the student discount and not have to deal with on-line things.  The machine will officially be ordered from Apple this weekend. Massachusetts has a ridiculously tax free (no sales tax) period then and UMass is helping me take advantage of that.  The computer will actually get to me in around 2 weeks due to configuration and shipping time.  

I’m picking up a Macbook Pro.  The screen is a 17” Glossy High-Resolution Widescreen Display.  I’m getting 4GBs of RAM for the memory, which is as much as I can get for a laptop.  The hard drive is a 160GB Serial ATA Drive 7200 rpm so it should give me decent speed. Not the best consumer computer for video editing but I think it’ll do.  I’m hoping that it’s money well spent. 

I had put some good thought into getting a large Mac Pro desk top.  However, I have two big-sized external hard drives that I own already and have my projects on.  The Mac Pro comes with a wonderful amount of internal space that would make my expensive external hard drives a waste a money.  I also really want a lap top.  I am and will continue to be pretty nomadic in my lifestyle (the room I live in right now doesn't have a desk, for example), so it would be a lot easier for me to carry around a small laptop. 

I'm excited to get a computer that I can actually do some real video editing with.  My iMac (which I plan to sell)  was always problematic since it was lacking in the RAM and software departments. 


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I'm still planning on writing a review for The Nightingale Princess DVD.  I'll get on that eventually.