I use gopros all the time for work and pleasure, On my military helmet, on my chest, rifle and on my friends, I have a few gopros. My laptop is by far no super computer, its a lenovo T420i with 8gbs of ram and an i7 cpu; it handles the black edition just fine. On top of that i have the entire adobe suite installed on my laptop as well. I have poles, all the mounts gopro makes and the extra "aftemarket lenses, even have a pelican case just for my gopro BS. What I have to say about the black edition... Skip it, there are so many bugs, problems and lost data that I am comfortable recommending skipping this one and just geting something cheaper. and waiting until the gopro 4 or getting a couture. Better yet, what we use for CQB and raids is a camera made by "helmet camera dot com" they make great stuff just on the pricy side.

 

Good point - screen is def more disposable !

My plan is a 5 inch round layer of 3m defender for the suction mount - that can be peeled off later

On the computer thing - yeah I do with a full editing suite - one of my
kids is hardcore into video editing which is intensive to say the least