I think you would have to shop very hard to buy a computer, laptop or desktop, in today's world that will choke on most any video/photo application you wanted to run on it. What computer do you have now, and why do you feel the need for a new one (just curious)? Do you run any photo/video editing aps on your present computer? Do they run with speed that is unacceptably slow?

Good video applications will generally allow you to convert high resolution video footage to a low resolution version (referred to as proxy footage) to allow you to edit and preview effects, etc that would be painfully slow if you used the high resolution footage. The application reverts back to the high res footage for rendering the final output.

Unless you are playing games that demand real-time demanding video performance, I doubt any of the computers you buy will cause you performance griefs.

I switched from Apple products to PC products years ago, as I felt the PC side gave me much more bang for my buck, plus I enjoyed modifying my systems which was much easier on the PC side. The notion that Apple computers are better for video, photo, or desktop publishing probably was never really true, but, for certain, does not apply today. There was a time when certain desktop publishing applications were only available for MAC, but that is unusual in today's world. Most high-end applications are available cross platform or there are equivalent applications for both PC and MAC. If you are attracted to Apple products, buy Apple, nothing at all wrong with them.

I currently run Windows and Linux on my present laptop (mine is really a large desktop replacement machine) that is now some 12 years old. When I purchased it, it was one of the most 'powerful' machines available at the time. I do a lot of multi-camera live recording and video editing (programs that run 1 - 3 hours), now in either Windows or Linux, and, of course, I do a ton of photo and audio editing. Given the powerful and affordable software with which we are blessed in today's world, most all of today's computers, whether expensive or not, can run these applications with more than acceptable performance.

My computer was no where near $3,000 when I bought it 12 years ago, and, unless you just want to spend that sort of money, there is no reason why anything you purchase should cost you nearly that much, today (hardware is more of a bargain now than it was 12 years ago).

I agree with those here advising you to decide whether you need portability or not, and base your decision on that consideration. Also, pay attention to your connectivity needs. Will you need to connect one or more external drives? Do you need a CD/DVD drive to install software? How many USB ports will you need? My machine has four USB ports, and I need them all. My wife's laptop has only one USB port, a real aggravation for me, but I doubt she uses it at all.

I own probably six old external drive boxes and a couple of video cameras that require firewire ports (first introduced on Apple machines, I believe). My laptop (and I would guess most any laptop) has no firewire port. I have to keep an old (but capable) XP desktop in service in order to capture footage from these cameras, but the external drive boxes are rarely used these days. Will you need or desire to connect your computer to a television?

Perhaps none of the above connectivity issues is of concern to you. If that is so, then I would suggest you get out there and buy something, then get started on learning your photo/video editing. You won't be sorry.

Good luck and have fun.

Caruso

I wonder why this story keeps being referenced here or anywhere else. The Texas official behind this court action is himself once convicted and still facing a criminal indictment. Additionally, one state has no standing to sue another state as to how that state carried out its implementation of an e******n. Watch this one go nowhere.

When will this clownish Trump era end?

Caruso

Is AG Barr a left wing website?

Caruso

No significant number of illegal b****ts have been found, that story is a figment of Trump's imagination. His AG has stated that there was no significant fraud to be found in connection with this e******n. In numerous court filings the Trump legal team could produce or present no evidence of fraud or illegal b****ts. It's easy for Trump and his minions to claim fraud and illegal b****ts in press conferences and on television, but when queried in a court of law where testifying falsely has real legal consequences for Trump's attorneys, they deny that they have any evidence of fraud or illegalities to present.

Trump v**ers were not defrauded, there were just too few v**ers who v**ed for Trump, and that's exactly how e******ns work, especially in this country.

Caruso

Accepted norms? Whose norms? I was surprised when TV/Movie man Reagan whipped Carter. The margin seemed improbable to me, but not Carter or anyone else took the position that the numbers were out of the norm. If 99 percent of the Pennsylvania v**ers did not v**e, explain to me why Trump and his legal team has failed to present a shred of supporting evidence in their court filings.

Trump ran on a promise to build a great coast to coast wall for which Mexico would pay. He did not build it. His health care legislation to replace Obamacare has been but two weeks from introduction for years, but he has never produced it. I watched him during numerous TV appearances claim that he had his 'people' investigating in Hawaii regarding Obama's lack of a birth certificate and that we would all be very surprised to learn about what they were finding, yet, never did he disclose any of that 'what.' His massive tax cut for middle class Americans only benefited the wealthiest of citizens. He told all of America that C****-** was just a h**x, then claimed that it would just disappear, that we have turned the corner. How do his supporters reconcile all of his lies and exaggerations? Have 99 percent of the souls who have departed this earth due to the v***s done so via some cause other than the v***s? Do you accept the notion that the v**es garnered by Biden in communities such as Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and Chicago were all fraudulent?

Now, after being roundly defeated in his ree******n attempt, he floats yet another tale that the e******n was r****d, that he has plenty of evidence, but, for some reason, he and/or his legal team appear before real judges in real court proceedings and fail to introduce one piece of supporting evidence. If the supporting evidence is so plentiful and so obvious, why does the Trump legal team persist in concealing it such that their cases are dismissed, often by judges that Trump, himself, appointed.

German citizens forced to walk through the concentration camps at the close of WWII, forced to view the brutality inflicted upon their fellow citizens, remarked that they had been 'lied to.' I say to you Trump supporters that you have been and are being 'lied to.'

Trump has mostly cited communities of color in his effort to throw out legitimate b****ts in his attempt to reverse the result of this e******n. Really, what does he care. Those sh** hole citizens are expendable N***ers whose sanctity was not to be respected in the first place. For reference, please check Trump's history with regards to fair housing to get a fix on his 'support' for citizens of color (what do they have to lose).

All of the above makes me wonder: are the Trump supporters in this forum just sportsters who purposely throw up ridiculous posts in order to enjoy observing the opposing response of level-headed posters, or do they actually fall for this folly of a man who was never more than an impostor?

Caruso

It's within his constitutional right to go to court over most any issue. Trump's problem has been that, once in court, his legal team has presented absolutely no evidence to support their allegations, and that is the reason they have experienced so many court rejections. Trump can claim in public and in his tweets wh**ever he chooses to claim regarding v****g fraud and irregularities, but his attorneys will not risk their own legal entanglement by introducing those false claims in a court of law. When queried in court if their proceeding involved actual fraud, their own court response has been consistently 'no.'

Reality is that the v**ers so overwhelmingly favored Biden that Trump's legal team would have to win a number of cases and invalidate results in a number of states in order to upset the result of this e******n. The Trump team, due to lack of evidence that they are willing to introduce in court, has lost most of their court cases. There is no need for Trump to concede in order for Biden to prevail in this e******n, threatened or pending baseless court proceedings notwithstanding.

I read that certain Republican state lawmakers seek to introduce a resolution to delay PA's certification of the e******n results, and then U. S. Congress to declare the national e******n to be in dispute (https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2020/11/27/pennsylvania-republicans-dispute-2020-e******n-results-resolution/). However, they are too late with this move, as the current session ends Monday before a v**e on the resolution can even be scheduled.

As others have responded, I wonder when Trump supporters will stop believing the fairy tales repeated by a desperate Trump. The e******n is over, and it is time to move forward under new leadership.

Caruso

Judge Matthew Brann of the US District Court in the Middle District of Pennsylvania, a long time and well respected REPUBLICAN judge in Pennsylvania threw out the case brought by Trump's legal team to invalidate the state's e*******l result.

I could give you link references, but feel it unnecessary as this is a national story. Trump supporters here will label it f**e news even given that it emanates from one of our courts.

As in most of these cases, Trump's legal team is strong on allegations but offers no evidence to back their claims. If they had evidence, court is the place to show it. Read the judge's comments for yourself. He sums up the situation nicely. Trump has no case.

Caruso

. . . a candidate who hasn't been hiding the fact that his entrance into college was made possible by the person he paid to take his entrance exams, who sees no need to threaten his 'alma mater' with a law suit if they reveal his collegiate/academic standing, who claimed heel spurs to avoid his obligation to offer serve military service, who has committed massive tax fraud, who takes p***e in committing sexual assault, who continued his mission of personal enrichment in violation of the emolument provisions of the country he is supposed to serve. You can expect him to pardon himself in the days leading up to the inauguration. He knows no shame. We can all expect him to be defended here and elsewhere by his drugged supporters that he is somehow above the rest of us in granting himself clemency from his massive wrong doings . . . while supporters on this forum and elsewhere enjoy sacrificing their own well-being to prove their point that he has done nothing wrong.
Enjoy getting screwed.

Caruso

If you were really interested in t***sparency and observing the process, you might have availed yourself of the live-streaming (VIA CAMERAS) made available at many of the "hot-spot" counting locations, INCLUDING Philadelphia:

https://nypost.com/2020/11/05/watch-b****ts-being-counted-live-in-philadelphia-other-key-counties/

Those complaining about the counting process in support of the Predator have no interest in seeking evidence that proves them wrong. Better to ignore undeniable information and post up a bunch of BS.

Caruso

The imposters shouting to stop the count as they pounded on the glass from outside the room claiming that there needed to be more t***sparency were not authorized observers. Sorry if my post was too deep for you, 'genius' . . . but you can celebrate, the Predator did have a court victory. Authorized observers (of all persuasions) may now observe the counting from as little as six feet away. That should do the trick.

Caruso

When Trump declared victory, he did so absent the approval of many of his staff because they knew, as did he, that the reported numbers could not possibly include all the mail-in/absentee v**es. Trump knew in particular because he manufactured the mail slow-down in the US Postal system. There is no t***h to your claim that legitimate poll watchers were not allowed "in" to observe the counting. Poll watching is not open to just anyone who wants to crash the scene. You have to be authorized. There is no lack of authorized Republican poll watchers observing the counting, and there is no evidence that Biden v**es are being "added." Mail-in/absentee v**es are being counted, something that Predator Trump has long sought to prevent. Democrats did not invent nor did they ignore the v***s, democrats did not try to suppress the v**e. These are all Trump tactics. His chicken is coming home to roost. You know all of this. I wonder why you choose to lie.

Caruso

You could assure yourself that the WH (Trump included) were telling the t***h based on the veracity of the little that has been said. Trump shared that he was administered cutting edge, experimental medications that he claims have cured him. He is so convinced that he will make certain these medications are available to any ordinary citizen who desires them, AND they will be free (as in Mexico paying for the wall that has been completed from sea to shining sea), yet, he guards pedestrian details of his treatment as closely as he guards his tax information.

HIPPA doesn't apply here, and, if it did, is not applied in a cafeteria style.

Of one thing you can be certain, he is hiding something.

It is the Trump way.

Caruso

Whomever Trump and his minions is paying to put up these nominations can stop, now. The prize has been awarded, and it did not go to Trump. There is no runner-up prize, no "honorable" mention based upon the number of nominations received. He will have to find a tinsmith to hammer out some f**e award to hang on his wall as he has done more than once with the Times 'Man of the Year' award. Really, what sort of person does that sort of thing. He is more f**e than f**e.

Caruso

I did some “googling” to check for verification of your very non-specific claim. I found plenty of examples where facts were distorted to create the impression that fraud had taken place. There is one instance where empty, non-used, left-over envelopes were legally discarded by e******n officials. These were from the 2018 e******n, contained no b****ts, and needed to be discarded.

I found copious articles debunking Trump’s ever repeated claims of ‘trump’ b****ts thrown in rivers, canals, garbage etc. Each expresses in no uncertain terms that his claims are without merit. His own FBI has stated that there is no evidence of widespread v***r f***d, and the commission that he established with great fanfare to search for and expose widespread v***r f***d was disbanded when it could not find evidence of same.

It is evident to me that you will not hesitate to embrace Trump’s fabrications to counter the fact that the GOP will not hesitate to commit felonious acts to prop up this caricature of a president/p**********l candidate. He lies about anything and everything, and does so in the open, no matter how obvious his lies. He is screwing the very people who support him (you included).

You will not verify your false claim concerning ‘Trump’ b****ts dumped into rivers, canals, garbage etc., because no such verification exists. If you have heard these stories from numerous radio and TV stories, please enlighten us as to your ‘non f**e’ stations.

Caruso

Please verify this claim. I know of one instance where b****ts were erroneously discarded. E******n officials discovered the error (deliberate or not), released the individual responsible for the discarding, self-reported to higher authorities, and restored the affected b****ts. In other words, the system worked to preserve the integrity of the system.

The rest of your claims appear to be a figment of Trump's imagination. Thousands of Trump b****ts in rivers? Which rivers? Please be specific. You say this is in the news constantly. Which news? Please document something other than bogus proclamations from Trump, he of the Mexico will pay for the wall ilk and the gangster caravans are coming delusions.

Apparently, you are ok with the GOP committing felonies.

Caruso