Thanks. That's really helpful. I'm definitely going for a full blown AMD Desktop solution eventually, but presently, I need an extremely portable system. I guess my options are limited to notebooks then.

One thing I was considering is the newer Macbook (white). The aluminium ones don't have firewire apparently, wtf is Apple thinking. The specified graphics card on it according to the Apple website is NVIDIA GeForce 9400M. I think that might be sufficient for my present needs. But again I will need to run Windows XP along with OSX on it (I might even throw in Ubuntu, just cos I really like Linux).

So I guess my question is whether I can get a reasonable performance (without any driver issues) running FCP on OSX and Avid MC on Windows, all on the new Apple Macbook (NOT pro) white.

Thanks.

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Desktop:
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
MSI RS482M2 Motherboard
2GB DDR400 RAM
1x 80 GB IDE HDD
2x 120GB SATA HDDs
Creative Audigy Sound Card
GeForce 8500GT PCI-e Card

Laptop:
CPU
AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile TL-50 (Socket S1 638), Codename: Taylor,
Cores: 2, Instructions: MMX, 3DNow, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64
Motherboard
Quanta 30B7
Chipset: Nvidia GeForce 6150
Southbridge: Nvidia nForce 410/430 MCP
Memory
4GB Dual Channel DDR2 RAM
Sound
Conexant HD Audio