yeah - i pretty much thought macbook would be too lightweight - it's specced up for me to do my dev work but this is the first time i've wanted to do anything visually demanding.
looks like i'll be in the market for a 'real' mac soon :s
so i need the extra heads just to get the software to preview the files playing? i'm just trying to take this step by step atm - so not worrying about getting it projected yet - that's a little bit down the line - all i need to do right now is bring the files (soon to be anything but avi files!! ) i...
i should also add that i really only need to know how to make the software do it atm - i'm trying to do a proof of concept thing so don;t need to wire up the hardware yet