New Laptop and AMS

[allenz]

Hello and happy holidays
Just bought a new laptop. Toshiba S229, for my field work. I was assured that it had a 5400rpm HD but in checking the documentation I see it's a 4400rpm 80Gb HD.

Will AMS 5 run on this machine okay with the slower HD? I'm also checking on my Vegas Video forum about Vegas 5 and DVDA-2.

My external "capture" HD is a Maxtor 7200rpm 200gB.

I can take it back or upgrade the hd.

Thanks
Allen

[Protocol]

Personally, I'd upgrade. Especially if you're running Vegas. 7200 is all I ever get...of course, I'm known for automation-spaghetti and it requires as fast of a retrieve time as possible.

4400 seems to me like a con-job if you thought you were getting 5400.

By-the-by...you're using Firewire for that external drive, right? If not...you'll notice a VAST improvement over USB (especially for any video source files).

[eric_darling]

By-the-by...you're using Firewire for that external drive, right? If not...you'll notice a VAST improvement over USB (especially for any video source files).

Actually, FireWire is usually 400 Mbps (that's standard FW bus speed). USB 1.1 is indeed much slower. But USB 2.0 (which any new laptop should now have) is actually a bit faster - 480 Mbps. FireWire 800 is, as its name implies, 800 Mbps, and twice the speed of first generation FireWire. But USB 2.0 is certainly fast enough for most applications.