Thanks Alex and Dunk, I can always add external disc space if and when needed.
Sil, such conflicting advice - I cross my fingers that I haven’t done my cash for nothing....
I am a complete novice, if the CPU and/or HDD are not good enough during webcam acquisition, will there be obvious hiccups and symptoms that will tell me? Will it stall or give error messages during acquisition? I realise that when it comes to processing after acquisition, the laptop may be a bit on the low end, but if that happens my backup will be to simply transfer the data to my big iMac and run from there, ie. Windows emulation. I have no intention in using the laptop for anything else at all, no Office, videos, browsing, music, email, apps, messaging at all, nothin, zilch...! I have a massive bias against MS, Windows and PC’s in general. I get the idea that over time they can just accumulate crap from anywhere which plays havoc on performance... so I’m very very wary of never exposing the system to anything other than what I really need... But thanks for the opinion and advice all the same, it’s all valuable to me....
Cheers, Fox