Minimum system requirements for Canopus ADVC-100?

[Lcarvone]

In the near future I intend on buying a ADVC-100 for converting old VHS tapes and home movies to play on my DVD player. What I plan to do is hook it up to my old laptop. The laptop itself has a docking bay which adds two PCI slots in which I can install a USB 2.0 card and firewire card. The system is or will be set up as follows:

Pentium 233 MMX
128 megs EDO DRAM
External (big) HD connected via USB 2.0 card
ADVC-100 connected via firewire card

My concern is that there will be some bottlenecks and/or problems with either with CPU speed, video chipset, memory, etc. making the additions pointless (and expensive). Any thoughts on this potential setup or suggestions for alternatives?

Thanks

[Greg12]

Hmm

I think the general rule is a 400MHZ is needed.

[Lcarvone]

Since this isn't a capture device is the 400mhz based upon the device itself (I can't seem to find any reference on the Canopus site) or some other piece of the conversion?

[The village idiot]

The USB2 might be a concern. I can use my 266Mhz laptop to go from an analog to DV device, with the hard drive also on firewire. Don't know if you will get a bottle neck running across the PCI buss or not. In my situation, most everything is handled by the firewire card. CPU utillisation is about 50% using DVio for the transfer software. There is no preview with DVio! Most likely, you will not be able to have a preview with your setup either.