Not only does it save you from the headaches of installing a PC Card network adapter, which can be very tricky, but it leaves your expansion slots open for other peripherals such as CD-RW drives, external hard drives, and so on. If you spend a lot of time on the road giving presentations, you'll want a notebook PC that has an S-Video Out port for displaying images on PAL or NTSC television sets. Web and Multimedia Authoring. Shoot for at least 256MB of memory for these kinds of applications. Digital Video Editing.
Video editing on a PC brings a whole host of demands.
First, you'll need at last one very large, very fast hard drive. Second, you'll need a FireWire or IEEE 1394 interface to get the video onto and off of the hard drive. The Apple PowerBook or Sony VAIO notebooks include FireWire. If your work takes you outdoors, an ordinary notebook PC might not cut it. Instead, get a ruggedized notebook with a tough magnesium case, spill-proof LCD and keyboard, and shock absorbers to protect internal components such as the hard drive.