Can a Macbook Pro handle serious HD video editing?

Exactly what Marduk said. Donate/Recycle it WITHOUT the hard drive. Even a formatted hard drive can be recovered and data pulled off it.

Yank that sucker and take it out for target practice.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.