I need some advice. I am thinking about buying a tower and combining it with my old monitor and keyboard and setting it up in my room, this way I can edit whenever I want with out being bothered by my family or forced to get off the computer by my dad. However, I am a junior in high school, so I'll be needing a laptopin a year and a half anyhow. Should I continue to edit on my families computer and wait to get the laptop, or should I dish out the cash to buy a tower so I can edit in my room?

You may want to keep editing on your families comp so that you can save up to by a really good laptop when it comes out. I assume you will be editing on this laptop, so you will want a very powerful one.

I agree with Trespasser. If you can stand editing on the family computer, keep at it because you will benefit in the long run.

Thanks, I think that's what I'll do.

You can always get a Mac mini to use in the meantime. It has plenty of horses (provided you add more memory) to edit. Granted it's not the best of the best...but it will work.

-Chris
Studentfilms.com

whats a tower?

Lord of the Rings needed Three Towers to edit.

Sorry.

considering you can get a decent tower for about 500 dollars (at least a 2 GHZ, 1 GB ram, 120 gb hd), you might as well just buy a tower and not bother with your family. If you've got a job, you should make enough to buy a laptop in due time.

A tower is a desktop computer that stands in a case. Basically EVERY computer besides a laptop

"A tower is a desktop computer that stands in a case. Basically EVERY computer besides a laptop"

Not really, just most PCs. A tower is a vertically-configured desktop that does not include a monitor. The iMac or Mac mini is not a tower, and neither were many of the desktop Power Macs when Apple was still using beige cases.

Yeah, I wasn't clear. When I said "stands" I meant stands vertically, as opposed to lying down. You got it covered.