A question of resources

Hi, all -
I work for a school district and we have a lab in each building filled with eMacs. At each campus, we're running the latest version of iLife, but at one campus, the eMacs are a year older than the other. They're 700 MHz machines with a gig of RAM.
iMovie, for some reason, has always crashed a LOT in this lab. More than in the other school, which has eMacs a year newer (but, owing to upgrade cycles, is occasionally a year behind the other lab in terms of OS & application upgrades).
Anyway, my boss asked me today to find out if iMovie HD really is more of a resource hog than the previous version of iMovie. That is, does it - simply due to its HDV support - really require more system resources to run? (He wants to know if we should downgrade back to the earlier version to prevent all the crashing.)*
My gut-level response is that it does not, unless you really are using HDV footage. Seems to me, if it's only dealing with straight DV material, it won't even bother loading or using the HDV codec, and should play nice with the system.
I feel that if I suddenly hook up my personal HDV camera to it and ingest some footage, the program should then slow down on our eMacs simply because it now has to crunch more compressed video and a higher pixel count.
Am I right about this? Is there any real data to support it? Or am I just plain wrong?
If anyone knows, please feel free to chime in... especially any real Apple tech people lurking out there. One way or another, I'd like to have some technical-level input on this.
*(As to the question of downgrading, I feel that while it's possible the older version bogarts fewer system resources, it also doesn't benefit from bug fixes introduced in the newer version... I suspect it's workflow and the files that students try to bring into the program which are causing the crashing, more than the software itself.)
- Mike

... especially any real Apple tech people lurking out there. ...
I dare to say: neverever... this is a user2user board, never saw in THIS section of a board a host nor employee..
a) min. requirements..
see my specs: I'm running iMHD5 smoothly on a system, clearly under min.specs... (esp. iDVD)
b) what I've read here so far - avoid a "mixture" of apps and QT components...:
10.3.x. + QT 6.x + iLife 5
or...
10.4.x + QT 7.x + iLIfe 6
we read lots of trouble, people using a mix; makes apps unstable, crashing, misbehaving...
c) MacOsX needs RAM, lotsof... when upgrading my Cube from 512 to 1GB RAM - woooshsh!! less RAM >> lots of hd activity >> slow/if hd crowded >> unstable
d) video needs harddrive space, MacOsX needs hd space.. make sure, you have ALLWAYS 5 - 15GB free on internal (external don't matter in this issue) drive... that makes system and apps stable&smooth ...
e) no HiDef video in use here, but what I've read so far: HDcontent needs a fast/powerful system for importing, 'cause it has to convert first into Apple Intermediate Codec; HiDef needs 4 - 5x more harrddrive space compared to .dv; ... as long as you stay .dv .. should work ...
f) iLife 4 >> 5 made a quantum leap in file-management, mainly the "non distructive editing" feature - means: be careful/wise with import. import just parts of tape, you need for editing; avoid laaaaarge, single clips, try to import small segments...
g) iLife 5 >> 6 made a quantum leap in grafic card resources.. read the specs Matthew linked to ... in a school, I don't see any need for fancy "themes" ... you shoud learn, to do movie editing manually ;-)))
... any letters left, I could fill... ?
hope, you found something helpful....................

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SCM,
I will today work on your question 1. As time permits, if Sri Mathur cannot respond, I will then attack the another question later.
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