Looking for the Right Apple for me (a dumb Windows guy ;) )

Yeah, I'm a Windows person, but I'm looking to do some filming. Macs, I know, are the best at this.
I came into this particular board because I'm looking for a decent mac, but I'm a little broke (About to spend 1500 on a camcorder...so yeah).
I saw the G4 powerbook and thought that it'd be perfect. Now, my friends, I have a few questions for you.
I'm looking at errr...a site to buy a used mac(not sure if that is taboo on this site, so ignore what I said if it is) for a used mac.
I am either going to get a Sony DCR-VX2000 or a Pana
AG-DVC30, both are MiniDV. A) Is a G4 powerful enough (in your opinion ) and B) Do Macs have external DVD burners? Seriously, I looked and found nothing. Do they just come with them or something? Completely confused on that.
Yeah, I know I probably used wrong terminology, etc. and I apologize. I'm just tryin' to find a good computer to do video editting, etc.
Errr...okay that's all I can think of. Thank you in advance.
Not yet Mac OS X (10.4)

You could do that, but when you want to do some
actual editing, it is better if you do it on the
internal.
I disagree. The internal hard drive is only a 2.5" and is limited in throughput compared to an external 3.5" drive. Second, while the video-editing software is trying to read footage off the disk while editing, it will fight with the OS and the application over access to the disk heads. If there is insufficient RAM, then all three will additionaly fight with virtual memory transfers.
Whether the internal has the room or not, you'll probably get better performance by letting the internal drive handle system, vm, and application tasks, and leave the footage on a fast external disk like a 7200RPM FireWire drive. Then, if you are using Final Cut Pro for instance, you also set your scratch disk to the fast external (or preferably a completely different fast external).
It's fine to edit on the internal if you have the room and you must be very mobile, but I think that top performance will come from reading/writing footage and renders to external drives, probably hanging off both your built-in FireWire port and a PC slot FireWire card. You will then be able to take advantage of parallel read/write streams, and prevent your entire operation from being bottlenecked by a single, slow laptop hard drive. Note that the 160GB notebook drive is only 5400RPM. You will also extend the life of your internal drive by not hammering it so hard.
In a computer like the G4 which is so constrained by its low CPU and RAM ceilings, using fast external hard disks is one of the cheapest/easiest ways to maximize performance. I love my PowerBook but if I was going into video editing for a living I would go get myself a dual-core MacBook Pro immediately.

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What is the right charger for a MacBook Pro 13" mid 2009 model?

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Prongs wrote:
1. I will be using it for my work at college and university so it will need to have a reasonable amount of storage and have the correct programs.
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Christine Helen wrote:
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Import files that were recorded on a DVR (mp4 format)
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| image one | | image two |
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Dave,
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