MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Wishful thinking and intuition are now telling me a honest 2.0 GHz dual core processor with a decent video section, maybe 4 GB RAM and a 500 GB storage would be plenty. I wouldn' t mind seeing a movie. But if experts are frustrated with Windows 8 I don't stand a chance. Microsoft screwed up Word So bad it's like grappling with a 300 blade Swiss Army Knife
2.0 ghz dual core with 4 gig of ram will be fine, however do be aware that laptops are pretty weak in the video area.. Typically the video will be fine for SD video but typically will be borderline for HD video and most likely will not play H264 AVCHD High Definition files smoothly..
H264 AVCHD High Def video files really tax the video GPU so it takes a video card with a strong GPU to pull that off..
I have been able to get a 1.8 ghz dual core to barely play AVCHD files with on board video card but to do that I have to disable a lot of processes and have nothing else running on that PC.. It would work OK if I bought a $150 video card but I didn't want to spend the extra money on that..
So as a way around that I bought a standalone media player so I can watch my AVCHD camcorder video on my TV without using a PC. HD media players start at $50 and up..
