Video Editing: Mac or PC?

No, you're misinterpreting. For £500, you can get a basic HD camera, but for £300 - £500, you can get a great SD camera. The quality of the SD camera will beat the HD one hands down, not to mention there's little point in having HD footage in the first place when SD is more than practical for current usage (judging from responses!). Future proofing is why you get a MacBook, the MacBook edits it fine, but really, to go into it seriously you'll be wanting a Mac Pro, unless you get into it in a few years, by which time MacBooks will be even more powerful and more capable.
 
One thing to consider if going the Mac route.
If you can't afford to splash out on, or have no need for all the bells and whistles... then Final Cut Express is rather good.

I have version 3.5 (running on a first generation 17inch MBP, with 2Gb). Whilst not a speed machine, it's pretty responsive-ish, and suits my needs for editing some wedding DVD footage etc.
Version 4 is out now. (3.5 had HD support I seem to recall, though all my stuff is in SD).
 
I think their report on HD editing between Mac and PC was a bit flawed.

Firstly in another episode she used Vista movie maker with no problem

Secondly, they made no attempt to find out what the issue what with the Pinnacle Set-up.

How can they recommend a mac on one test they did?
 
With identically specced systems the only possible explanation for the performance difference is the editing software, so it is obviously the crappy pinnacle program. Even virtual dub could do better than that. :D
 
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