Price-wise be sure to compare final configurations again the Core i7 & i5 CPUs. In some cases stepping up from the Core 2 Quad may not cost much and may be a significant boost in video editing.
Skip RAID get a big NAS (2x or 4x the size of the computer storage) and Acronis TrueImage software for backups.
(RAID is not a backup scheme)
HP, Dell and the the others are just re-badging OEM junk in a lot of cases these days - it's hard to say who makes it any more. My last Dell notebook and desktop weren't made by Dell...
Yes, been looking at the i& stuff just a bit earlier. Basically it means going to a Workstation config. I have had good luck with RAID 1. I backup offsite and on local HDDs. Still, twice now having RAID 1 allowed me to continue work uninterrupted that would otherwise been a disaster. Going to a NAS is a bigger investment and management issues I don't feel like dealing with. If Drobo didn't have such bad QC and horrible CS, I'd jump on that. Unfortunately, reality isn't meeting up with theory there.
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