ive been hearing for us to video our family (kids) as when you get older its a lot of fun to watch the videos again...

wondering what would be a good camcorder... (what kind of battery... rechargable/regular, what kind of memory... little disk/memory stick)

one thing to keep in mind is i would like to have the option to edit them on the computer to make the video "more watchable"... we have a mac computer (i guess it has the best video editing card as well... 

should i get an HD video corder??

thanks...