I may have asked this question before and if I have not I bet someone else has.
The thought crossed my mind that it may be worthwhile to buy a computer and keep it just for working on video and digital photographs.
Would anyone care to sugest what spec I should go for and what sort of price I should expect?

Anything with 2 cores and 2 drives and 1gig min ram would be fine.

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Agreed.

And with the minimum amount of clutter on it as possible. Keep it offline. Have no firewall/antivirus/spyware/modem/isp software on it at all. No networking. And optimised for editing:

http://www.videoguys.com/TweaksWINXPVE.html

Sorry, idiot that I am but what do you mean by, "2 cores?"

2 cores - a dual core processor. Untill about the last year or so nearly all pc processors were single core, one processor - now intel and amd are putting 2 processor cores, or 4, on the same chip to increase performance. It's like having 2 processors running at the same time.

Intel core duo - dual core
Intel core 2 duo - quad core
AMD 5000 x2 - dual core, indicated by the X2

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I have two prejudices - I am anti HDV for consumer camcorders, and I eat mooks who claim to be pro wedding vidders and ask dumb questions.

www.zaskarfilms.com You tube channel 'zaskarfilms'
JVC DV5001e (big cam), Sony PC6E (tiny cam), Vinten pro5, PAG light, SM58, Sony ECM50, Sony C-76, 0.5x convertors for sony, Rode video mic, Vegas 7.