FCE Ram question

I have a Dual 2.3 GHz PowerPC G5 Apple with 2.5 GB DDR@ SDRAM. FCE will occasionally drop frames during import of the miniDV tape. I am only using SD right now, but am concerned that when I buy the HD camera i'm looking at, I will have even greater trouble importing because my computer's running a little slow. If I upgrade my Ram to 4.5 GB, will this help substantially? or be hardily noticeable?
Thanks for the answers.

ok. that kinda answers a question I had. I WAS importing to a Lacie 2BigTriple via firewire 800 (1T, 106GB left), but i kept dropping frames. Since then, I imported to my boot drive (230GB, 150left), (I know, it's not the best, but after I transfered the media back the secondary firewire drive).
I also plan on buying a 1T internal Serial-ATA drive. I would then capture my media to that... and have a lot of space left.
So I'm kinda taking it that I maybe shouldn't even bother to buy more Ram... If it's not going to speed up the render times... idk thanks man. I guess... you possibly might be writing on the other topic I posted. Sweet. You rock.

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Serial Number (system):          W8******1AQ
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