Mac Speed and FCP Performance

Good afternoon.
I was experimenting with the very cool multiclips ability of FCP5 but found it doesn't work so well. I followed all settings advice from the manual, but still can't really get the multiclips to play in the viewer. If they do they are way out of syn with the timeline. I suspect this is because my computer and external drive just aren't fast enough.
How fast is 'fast enough'? How much RAM should I have to expect such operations, and how fast does my external drive have to be?
Right now I'm running my Powerbook with an OWC 300GB at 7200 rpm. My video card is...well, I'm not sure. Should this be enough speed?
Cheers

When you start using multiclip you start getting into what is called multiple "streams of video"...meaning how many video tracks are playing at the same time. A firewire drive can play back maybe 2 or 3 streams, but then might start to choke. You need either a firewire RAID like a G-Raid or Firewire VR, or eSATA drive like the S2VR Dup (caldigit.com) or ones offered by sonnett and Dulce systems.
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