Editing in HD (Need specs for it)

I need to edit on Sonyvegaspro8 my new camera

Canon vixia hg20 (its HD obviously)
It runs on sonyvegaspro8 and it was made to, it has AVCHD format

my computer is a windows xp, 2002 service pack 3

i have 1GB of ram, 2.99 GHz and had 70 GB of HD space, only have 40 now.

My footage runs on sonyveagspro8 but its choppy and laggy (need to support it better)

WHAT SPECS TO I NEED TO RUN IT SMOOTHLY?!?!!?!?!

8 cores @ 3 GHz, 16 GB RAM, and 15K RPM Fibre Channel drive array.

You need an adequate processor (read Core2Duo/Quad) and lots of disk space, using RAID will probably be cheaper than getting a 15K Drive

|| 8 cores @ 3 GHz, 16 GB RAM, and 15K RPM Fibre Channel drive array.


you mean an i7 cpu rite?