Two lazy days … just visited and played cards with mom, cruised the internet, and read. I am sad to report that Sandy won all games.
The new HP pavilion zd8000 combined with a Verizon broad band access card is working well. This ais more like a desktop, and the internet access is really good. The download rates have been averaging around 140 kbps. which sure beats the previous dialup used during previous visits.
We did go out long enough to pick up a cable, (IEEE 1394/DV cable), to transfer our Christmas video to the laptop. To my surprise, when I plugged the camera into the laptop, Windows Movie Maker poped up. I found it really easy to upload 120 minutes of video. My only question is about the upload quality. The resulting video file size seems small. Also I noticed some distortion as I played back parts of the video
The creation of this years Christmas DVD will be a good comparative test of the movie making process between Mac and PC. For the last 4 years we used a Macintosh and found the process feature rich and simple.
Ramblings of an old computer engineer/developer 