Dropped frames warning on new Macbook Pro

I've been running FCP faultlessly for the last year or so on a Macbook Pro 15". I recently bought a Macbook Pro 17" with the I5 quad core processor and for the first time I'm getting dropped frame error messages here and there. This is the last thing I would have expected on my all singing and dancing new Macbook Pro!
I've set up FCP, as far as I can see, exactly the same as my other Macbook and I've updated FCP to 7.03. Is there something more that I should have done?

I couldn't be assed going through the detail, because it would have been irrelevant wouldn't it? The old Macbook Pro was working perfectly with the same hard discs and the New Macbook Pro Quad Core wasn't,so the answer was going to be inside the new machine rather than any external device. That was where I was looking for help, on an internal Mac setting., I don't need to be lectured on the speed/size/performance of discs etc as I've running stuff for 2 years with no problems at all on the old machine.Sorry to have been so abrupt, but having just spent £2000 on my new Macbook Pro and then finding these errors appearing, as you can imagine I wasn't in the best of moods!
Anyway, I solved the problem with the help of an old post from Tom Wolsky, where he suggests "Trashing the preferences" as sometimes an element within this can become corrupted and cause strange problems.This free utility in effect resets the Mac.

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