Replies to post #22318 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[HailMary]

I don't know how many of you use miniDV cameras, but a 5 minute uncompressed capture is about 1 gig. Sure I can compress this to MPEG2 or MPEG4 before editing, but editing can be a bit of a pain in these compressed formats. Raw editing is easier and better for when you are making multiple output files of different compression types. Fortunately most of my clips are only a couple of minutes long, but I know I could use >4G of memory to make editing go much, much faster (I have 1G in my machine now). At current prices I'm not willing to pay for 4G of memory though. When memory prices come down, 64 bit computing will find many uses among mass consumers. Unfortunately it seems that might still be a ways off. Power users will jump on it though.

JMHO-