BACKGROUND: I recently sold off my old Dell Inspiron 1100 and purchased a new Dell Inspiron 1150. This upgrade was to accomodate the need to capture and render video while mobile. The 1100 would lock up anywhere between 5 and 30 seconds into capture and would require me to remove all power (cords, batteries) in order to restart it. It would get the job done, but sometimes with several restarts. I figured this issue was resulting from the Celeron chip in the 1100, so I upgraded to a P4. When it arrived, the first thing I did was try and capture video; same issue. I sent it back. Now, I am awaiting the refund so I can try my next choice; the Compaq Presario R3000z series. What my thoughts are; video card. Both my Dells had intergrated video cards. This laptop includes a 64MB (dedicated) NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go video card. This includes a 1394 Firewire connector (obviously for video capturing). My Q&A basically sits at whether this will do the job. I would likely be capturing a minute or so of video at a time. Rendering the video to whatever formats I needed was never an issue; it was just the firewire capture of the video. I'm hoping this new setup will eliminate the issue I've been having. The other system specs.. AMD Athlon64 3000+ 1.80 GHz w/ 1MB L2 Cache 512MB DDR SDRAM (2x256MB) 80GB 4200RPM Hard Drive (option for 5400RPM) Do you think this system will handle the load? Thanks, Tony Tony Laubach http://www.tornadoeskick.com