Is this a good choice? If not what do you recommend?
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Processor & Memory:
RAM Drives:
Operating System:
Graphics & Video:
Communications:
Only 1 hard drive is below specification, so you need at least another 7200rpm drive, internal or eSata
Some ideas for a Desktop Video Editing PC http://www.adkvideoediting.com/-ADK Kudos http://forums.adobe.com/thread/877201
Build http://forums.adobe.com/thread/947698-more build ideas http://ppbm6.com/Planning.html-Build it Yourself http://forums.adobe.com/thread/815798-http://www.shawnlam.ca/2012/premiere-pro-cs6-video-editing-computer-bu ild/.Some ideas for a Laptop Video Editing PC from past discussionshttp://www.sagernotebook.com/http://forums.adobe.com/thread/957472http://www.adkvideoediting.com/For effective HD video editing, a laptop with the following-at least the Intel sandy bridge 2720 or 2820 quad processor-and nvidia graphics preferably the 460m, 485m is a bit much-1280x900 display with OpenGL 2.0-compatible graphics card-and 8 or 16 gig ram and Win7 64bit Pro-and 2 internal 7200 HDDs minimum
This message has a really good graphic about requirementsCS5 Requirements http://forums.adobe.com/thread/810750About Requirements http://forums.adobe.com/thread/618058Disk Configurations http://forums.adobe.com/thread/878419
so would the above Alienware desktop plus an external hard drive do the job?
Yes, if the external is either an eSATA or USB3 drive.
Oh, well... you posted this in a sub-forum of the Premiere video editing forum
Your title does not mention video editing... if you are NOT going to do video editing, you don't need a 2nd hard drive
well............
