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Article: Been there, done that, burning the DVD: a retired Air Force photographer has loads of memories to preserve. We land him a high-flying, low-cost video- and photo-editing PC.(Buying Advisor)(VAIO PCV-RS530G Digital Studio, nVidia GeForce FX 5200, eVGA e-GeForce FX 5900)(Sony Electronics, Gateway, ABS Computer Technologies)(Buyers Guide)
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- May 1, 2004
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KEN MEYER HAS FLOWN AT near Mach 2, braved an Antarctic winter, and spent a decade at a NASA satellite-tracking station in Alaska. The U.S. Air Force photographer, a retired master sergeant, has settled into a more ordinary lift: these days, taking time to preserve memories videos and pictures--from a life of exciting events. But his current PC leaves him, well, cold.
"It chugs along like a Model T backing up a hill," says Meyer, of his vintage Gate way 486. "I get the coffee jitters editing digital pics." He's upgraded it plenty over the years, but it'll never be up to crunching video. So he's looking for a new desktop with an LCD, since he's also strapped for ...