If it was me I would put in a biger hard drive.I just run 20 mins. of vidio and used 10 gig of memory I run windows 2000 900mhz. I run Roxio easy cd & dvd creator version 6 it will do live video you can run the cam from the roxio screen don't have to touch the cam. I'am new to the video thing still playing the software so far it has been easy good picture. I use the 1394 firewire more later