Capture options for Macbook

Hi,
I tried searching for an answer to this but couldn't find the exact answer I was looking for.
How do you capture on a Macbook? There's only one firewire port and you're not supposed to capture to your startup drive/same drive FCP is running from. The posts I've read state that it isn't ideal to share two devices (an external Hard Drive) on a single firewire port. Wouldn't I run into problems capturing from my camera to an external firewire drive when both are connected to the computer via a hub?
I used to use a PowerMac which had two Firewire ports...
Thanks in advance,
Pete

Thanks guys. I just picked up a Western Digital external drive and was wondering why it had two firewire connections on the back. Now I know. They should really do this for USB devices.
I'll give this a shot and see how things go. It's a little odd how Apple positions itself as a leader in editing video for the consumer with such a limitation on ALL of it's consumer based computers???
For the iMac, they need to shrink the insides so there's room for a second HD. Especially with the benefits of SATA and their dropping prices. That and an upgradeable video card but I'm really dreaming there.
I can accept that they wouldn't see a MacBook as a video editor and pass on the expansion card slot. Like that would ever happen in the first place.
I'm not looking forward to firewire based speeds for editing in FCP... I'm starting to miss my tower, oh well.
Thanks again,
Pete

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