I can just plug my old dell monitor, pc speakers, and keyboard/mouse straight into a mac, can't i? or is there some compatibility thing going on? (you can laugh if you want--whichever the obvious answer might be--I'm not really knowledgable when it comes to these sorts of things)
In your experience, how much space is needed to comfortably fit your project files for preservation/fan edits on your hard drive?--I hear from everybody here it's a buttload of a load on your hard drive, but that could mean a lot of things. 12-15 gbs of video?...100 to 200 gbs of video...? (uncompressed video is a bitch!)