Need some suggestions regarding my upcoming Performance Appraisal? I basically want some idea about how much salary can I expect in the appraisal. So I am giving some details below. It may be a little long so if u have patience then only read. And please read it full and give ur opinion or suggestions whatever:- - I have done B.tech in ECE from an NIT (National Institute of Technology). - I joined this company as a fresher (trainee s/w engg) with a salary of 8000 pm for the first 3 months and 11000 pm for the next 9 months, with a bond of 1 year (certificates with them). - I was the 2nd employee when I joined and now there are a total of almost 18 emloyees (joined in the period of 9 months). So ours is a fast growing company. - I have been into web development (side by side designing too ) on LAMP technology, PHP frameworks, Javascript frameworks, AJAX etc. ... - Have been into projects most of the time. Was the team lead also in the last project (team size 3). - Although it is recession time currently but in our company it hardly feels like that. Almost everybody is into projects and on an average 2-3 employees are being hired every month. (Most of our clients are not from US. Mostly UK, Australia, one from India). - The senior most employee in our company gets a salary of more than 25000 per month. But will get a good hike this time because he was sent to UK for a week to collect details of a project. This is among the biggest projects so far and the first one for which an employee was sent abroad and I am also in the team of 5, currently working on it (In Bangalore). - Another employee who joined almost with me (salary was same as me, 8000, 11000 and a bond of 1 yr) - his appraisal procedure is complete and has been offered a package of 2.4 lpa, to which he replied he expected more than 3. Our PM (Project manager - Our PM is the co-owner of the company) replied to him - OK we will let u know. - He (who joined with me) says, I will also get a salary offer like that only and I feel he is correct but I want a little more than that. If any more info is required:- - I have always been serious in my work and worked on a few weekends also when it was required. - And yes I too did some mistakes. Although my spoken communication is also very good but once while I had to finish my part of work (because I was going home in the middle of a project), my PM called me on phone to ask me the status. And I had a terrible link failure that day because I was too much stressed due to working entire day. I could not say a single meaningful word about the current status. It was very embarrassing. To make the situation better I went to office next day and completed some of the tasks. But even after that they have let me communicate directly with clients (both spoken and email). - And in the next project only I was the team lead. She told me that our client was happy with the overall quality of development in that project. Now I think that was too much of info. Thanks for reading it full. I hope my PM does'nt read this.Now, my personal meeting with PM is due next week. My relation with her has otherwise been very cordial. Please give me some basic tips or some common mistakes I need to avoid. I badly want a salary of 25000 pm (in hand). I hope she is going to say we are offering u a package of this much... are u happy with that? Suggest me some good negotiation tips. How do I ask for more in that case?

Is it a good PC for video Editing? Recently, thinking to buy all-in-one Sony LN1M pc. Mainly going to use it for video editing, so thinking to install software like Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 and After Effects CS4 and so on. So, I am not very into the PC specs and how they work, so can anyone tell me is it a good choice for a PC or not? Here are the specs: Operating System Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium with Service Pack 1 Microprocessor Full Name Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E7200, Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology Microprocessor Manufacturer Intel® Microprocessor Speed (GHz) 2.53 Microprocessor Type Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor L2 Cache (KB) 3072 Frontside Bus (MHz) 1066 Memory Speed (MHz) 800 Memory Type DDR2 SDRAM (1x2048MB, 1x1024MB) Max. Memory (MB) 4096 Max Memory Comment A portion of the system memory over 3GB may not be available to the operating system. Memory Size (MB) 3072 Display Size (in) 20.1 Display Type X-black LCD with four lamp technology Resolution Format 1680 x 1050 Resolution Type WSXGA+ Graphic Card Full Name NVIDIA® GeForce® 9300M GS GPU Producer NVIDIA® Graphics Memory Total Available Graphics Memory 1530MB* and dedicated GDDR3 Video Memory of 256MB Hard Drive Capacity (GB) 500 Hard Drive Type Serial ATA Hard Drive Speed (rpm) 7200 About Vista : Will it make a difference and is it reasonable to downgrade Os to XP? Again about Vista : looks like it spoils everything our days.