Video editing on a macbook?

[crazydrumma]

Hey all, I am a college student who enjoys video editing/ production, and have been doing so on my macbook pro. I would continue to do so, however my computer has been crushed by a falling skateboard. Ridiculous, I know. So I must find a replacement before this next semester at school. I was skeptical about video editing on a macbook, but I compared the specs of the new macbooks to that of my own macbook pro:

My Macbook Pro: Macbook:
1.83 Ghz processor 2.2 Ghz processor
1 gb of RAM 2 gb of RAM
80 GB hard drive 120 GB hard drive
System Bus speed: 667 mhz System bus speed: 800 mhz
Graphics RAM: 256 MB Graphics RAM: 144 MB

So, the only downside would be the graphics card. I want to know if this is going to be significant, because in all other aspects, the new macbooks waste my old macbook pro. Can I hack it?

 

[r.j.s]

Short answer: Yes.

The macbook will do just fine, unless you are trying to do heavy work in motion, in which case - the pro would outperform it due to the dedicated gpu.

 

[deadpixels]

processor speed and ram are more important than graphic power if you do video editing.