Total price including shipping is $1,361.00, but I must act quickly to get all the discounts. Seems like a good deal including monitor, 2Gb ram, 250 Gb HDD and free Vista 'upgrade'. Am I overlooking something crucial for video editing?

Qty Part # Description
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1 222-3547 Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E6600 (2.4GHz,1066FSB) with 4MB cache
1 311-5121 2GB DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz
1 310-7964 Dell USB Enhanced Multimedia Keyboard with USB Hub
1 320-5212 22 in (22 in viewable) E228WFPWide Aspect Digital Flat Panel
1 320-4944 NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE
1 341-3257 250GB SATA II Hard Drive (7200RPM)
1 341-3865 No Floppy Drive Requested
1 420-4838 Microsoft Windows XP Professional,Service Pack 2, English
1 420-4927 Windows Media Player 10
1 420-5477 Dell Direct Download
1 420-5769 Internet Search and Portal
1 412-0688 Image Restore
1 412-0911 Dell Support
1 463-2282 Dell Owners Manual installed on your system,click on icon after system set-up to access
1 310-8540 Backup media for XP Pro Dimension 9200
1 310-8617 Thank you for choosing Dell
1 310-7966 Dell Optical USB Mouse
1 313-3607 No modem requested for Dell Dimension
1 412-0914 Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0
1 313-4422 16X DVD+R/RW CD-RW Combination Drive
1 420-5781 Sonic Cineplayer
1 420-5790 Roxio Creator Basic/MyDVD Basic
1 313-2758 Integrated Audio
1 313-4514 No Speaker Requested
1 412-0903 Norton Internet Security 2006 90 Day Trial,OEM
1 420-6367 Yahoo Music Jukebox 2.0, Basic1 Month,Trial
1 412-0931 Corel Snapfire Plus Starter Edition
1 412-0148 No Internet Service Provider Requested
1 412-0912 MS Works 8.5 Plus Office Trial
1 981-9288 Thank you for choosing 1 Year Economy Plan
1 950-9797 No Warranty, Year 2 and 3
1 960-2800 Warranty Support,Initial Year
1 412-0359 Soft Contracts - Qualxserve
1 984-9287 Dell Hardware Warranty PlusOnsite Service, Initial Year
1 980-1740 Type 3 Contract - Next Business Day Parts and Labor On-Site Response, Initial Year
1 310-8591 You have chosen a Vista Capable System
1 310-8586 Express Upgrade to Windows Vista Business, Free plus S and H at payable at redemption
1 310-8590 Upon receipt of PC, Go to www.dellvistaupgrade.com to redeemVista upgrade by 03/31/2007
1 310-8165 IEEE 1394a Adapter
1 466-1443 Thank you for choosing Dell
1 310-8591 You have chosen a Vista Capable System
1 462-4506 Purchase is NOT intended for resell
1 463-6864 PAYMIX DISCOUNT APPLIED

 

i would go with a better video card for editing but that just me.

 

Seems like a good deal. Few things:

- I would 1000% recommend the Dell 24" Widescreen LCD. Incredible screen.

- If you're doing video editing you'll need a LOT more than a 250Gb HD. I would recommend planning on around 750Gb-1Tb depending on how much you will do, and where it will be stored. Might want two HD's in a RAID array for data redundancy. I have 460Gb on my computer, and I can fill it up no problemo.

- No speakers? Video has audio too, and you'll want to be able to hear it well. I might recommend a good Soundcard (Creative X-FI) and some decent speakers.

That's about all I can think of.

EDIT: Also, if you can see if you can get your RAM split into four (4) sticks, 512Mb each. For DDR2 ram each of you CPU cores will be able to take better advantage of the Dual-channels if they each have access to two sticks. If four sticks is a no-go, at least make sure you have two.

EDIT: Might want to see if you can get a Firewire port on that thing too, many DV cams use Firewire for video x-fer.

 

I second the motion for the 24" screens. Having used a pair of em when I worked for a mechanical enginnering company, I must say they we're freakin' sweet! Everything looks small after you spend some time with those monsters!

 

You guys are going to cost me! I believe in stepping up to future proof instead of going on the cheap. Thanks for the good tips.

I had doubts about the video card too. I have a 250 Gb external Firewire HD for projects that will be transferred to DVD masters. Got a good set of speakers now. Didn't know about the RAM config to ask for, good to know! Box will have two Firewire ports. I have one 20" Viewsonic now and thought I'd rig the other 22" as an extended desktop for video editing only. Shouldn't that work as well or better than one 24"?

 

WAIT FOR VISTA to ship...

upgrading will be PITA...

also ask for windows cd, not just a image restore cd...