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7 reasons I might buy the HMX10

A few reasons i'm probably going to buy the Samsung HMX10. I've traversed the black hole that is consumer camcorder info and this is the least documented camera, but it has many benefits. Now is probably not the best time to be buying a consumer camcorder w/ the a format wars-ish type situation (AVCHD, HDV, JVC's hd7 etc.), but these early years of my daughter's life need to be documented. Reasons:

1. The number one benefit of this camera is that it records in an hd format I can use, mpeg-4 with h.264. I'm on a PowerBook so AVCHD, which is a similar format, is out for me on Final Cut Express w/ a power pc processor. I thought about just getting a Sony and relying on voltaic, but who knows how long that project will be supported. Plus it just feels icky having to use a third party to get to my video.
2. The pricepoint is pretty reasonable.
3. You can edit down the video before dragging it onto your drive.
4. Swivel Grip
5. Clean web uploads. Many people has labeled this a "web" camcorder. This camera and the standard def one shoots in a nice neat 30fps, where a lot of other cameras use 29.97 or some such rate that is not cleanly divisible by 2. YouTube chops the frame rate in half and the picture ends up looking much better when its cleanly divisible by 2.
6. Can be setup as an actual webcam. Probably won't user this one, but it's nice to know it's there.
7. Media. This is a solid state media camcorder. No moving parts, no camera hum, it *should* startup quickly. There is an internal memory card and a spot for expanding the memory with an regular old SD card, Sony uses really expensive cards made by sony, I think you can use generic cards, but I've read about people having troubles with them.