Need new computer. What's minimum for video editing?

Desktop all day. You need something with a discrete graphics card, NOT integrated graphics. I'm being super lazy, but you can use this as an example: here. You see the first search result, the Lenovo AIO3?

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Graphic Card : Integrated AMD Radeon™ Graphics

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That's no bueno.

You see the second result?

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Graphic Card : AMD Radeon™ RX 6600M 8GB GDDR6

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Much better. Not the best, but I can't tell you how crippling trying to rely on integrated graphics is for video/gaming. You don't need something that costs $3k, you don't need a $1k video card, you just need discrete graphics.

I don't buy graphics cards that cost more than about $240, so I don't think it matters if you go AMD or GeForce. Given your probable skill level, just buy it from the manufacturer the way you want it. Absolutely no need to get into us explaining how many 4 pin connectors you need and how big your power supply needs to be to make even a $200 graphics card work.

Don't get less than 16GB of RAM, it's too cheap not to(I put 64 GB in my current machine in 2021.)

You must have a machine that boots off of an SSD, but I'd suggest you make the cache location for your video ripping just a large regular hard drive (SSD for boot, big HDD for ripping.) I haven't had an issue with one of my SSDs dying yet, but they have a limited lifespan in terms of how much data you read/write from them. Messing with video reads and writes constantly. My oldest SSD has 186TB written to it in it's lifetime (I have three SSDs and an HDD in my rig.) Drive health is good, but I expect it will degrade. HDD are cheap, and you're going to need a lot of space to deal with the video before you presumably compress it into a portable format like MKV.

BTW, run this on your ever slowing current PC. The vast, vast majority of the time, PCs "slow down" because of Spyware, browser plugins, Adware, and crap like that.

Raspberry Pi? Seriously? OP is not dealing with this:

Well over a couple hundred hours of old vhs, vhs-c, etc. Looking to store the digital copies in dropbox folder to share with family members.

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Raspberry Pi? Seriously? OP is not dealing with this

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I didn't mean it as a suggestion, I meant that it's sufficient for basic VHS capturing. If you plan to edit or transcode the video then you'll obviously want more power, but even then I bet a Pi can do it without too much hassle on low-res video like OP will be dealing with.

Again, I am not suggesting OP should buy a Pi. The question was what is the minimum to rip VHS tapes and that is my answer.

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Agree- discreet graphics is overkill and a half for this application

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We have to consider the audience (no offense, OP). He can get talked into buying a $400 PoS that makes him hate the ground you walk on, or he can get something that is capable, for $1k, and he'll never remember this conversation.

Sorry, once you mention a mobo form factor, you have lost 99.5% of anyone on this board.