The Apple with Final Cut Pro (HD if you want that).

The rest of us PC owners use many machines. My lowest model laptop I've used (until last month) was a p3-600MHz Acer ter-600. Today, I have a spiffy Athlon 64 unit. Very nice move up.

Any current HP or Dell laptop with 512M RAM would be nice.

Fair warning. I'd avoid any DVD-Recorder in the laptop since at 2X speeds you get to run the laptop for over an hour. Pop for an external and you can easily get soem 16X DVD all format recorder dual layer in the near 99 dollar range without heating up your laptop.

Bob