I'm not sure about whether the camera is any good or not. It's Sony. It's miniDV. So it's got 2 good things going for it at least... Googling the product number throws up no end of info, including reviews.
sony dcr-hc27e review - Google Search
The only thing your PC needs to capture from it is a Firewire socket. If it does not have one, then you can buy a PCI firewire card quite cheaply.