Thanks Jim, very informative post.
What do you guys think of this deal?
http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/HP-Pa...oductDetail.do
I found it when searching for info on quad core stuff...alot of the stuff on it isn't what I would have picked, but it has the quad core, 3GB of RAM that's upgradeable to 8GB....looks like it might be a nice machine for video editing for under $1K