Celeron 1.5 gig ok?

[satkinson]

I want to use an old Dell laptop to record two or three newscasts a day. It's a Celeron 1.5 gig, with 512 megs of ram.

I'll use a hardware encoder with it.

The above is slightly below what Snapstream publishes as a minimum for 4.0. Will it run reasonably well, recording standard def?

Thanks,

Scott Atkinson
Watertown NY

[satkinson]

Never mind. I should really learn to read the FAQ better - it pretty clearly says that the chip is fine for analog. (I was reading the hd section.)

Doh...as people used to say a few years back...

Scott A.

[mlomker]

I have one in my Link box and utilization for SD content is 20%. It isn't quite enough for high-def...100% CPU and stuttering. I'm upgrading my box to a Core 2 Duo since I need HD.