Fcp on macbook pro 15.4" 4GB

any thoughts on power with this machine running FCP?
I am hoping to jump to 4GB RAM and a 250GB HD.
Any comments welcome,thanks

The best external drive out there is made by Lacie and is called the Little Big Disk. Same mentality on the drive, speed over space. Grab the 7200 RPM drive with 200GB of space. I've thrown DV, HDV and XDCam footage at it and captures, plays back, edits, renders, and exports without a hiccup. It uses firewire 800 connection is and very mobile. I popped mine in a small Pelican case for transport and it's worked flawlessly since the day I bought it.
A regular external drive may not work as effectively for capturing directly, even if it's firewire.

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03/01/13 6:53:54.000 PM kernel[0]: standard background quantum is 2500 us
03/01/13 6:53:54.000 PM kernel[0]: mig_table_max_displ = 74
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03/01/13 6:53:54.000 PM kernel[0]: Computed hmac value is 735d392b68241ef173d81097b1c8ce9ba283521626d1c973ac376838c466757d
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03/01/13 6:53:54.000 PM kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS AES CBC POST test passed!
03/01/13 6:53:54.000 PM kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS TDES CBC POST test passed!
03/01/13 6:53:54.000 PM kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS AES ECB AESNI POST test passed!
03/01/13 6:53:54.000 PM kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS AES XTS AESNI POST test passed!
03/01/13 6:53:54.000 PM kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS SHA POST test passed!
03/01/13 6:53:54.000 PM kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS HMAC POST test passed!
03/01/13 6:53:54.000 PM kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS ECDSA POST test passed!
03/01/13 6:53:54.000 PM kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS DRBG POST test passed!
03/01/13 6:53:54.000 PM kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS POST passed!
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03/01/13 6:53:54.000 PM kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=2 LocalApicId=2 Enabled
03/01/13 6:53:54.000 PM kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=3 LocalApicId=1 Enabled
03/01/13 6:53:54.000 PM kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=4 LocalApicId=3 Enabled
03/01/13 6:53:54.000 PM kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=5 LocalApicId=255 Disabled
03/01/13 6:53:54.000 PM kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=6 LocalApicId=255 Disabled
03/01/13 6:53:54.000 PM kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=7 LocalApicId=255 Disabled
03/01/13 6:53:54.000 PM kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=8 LocalApicId=255 Disabled
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03/01/13 6:53:54.000 PM kernel[0]: Security policy loaded: Quarantine policy (Quarantine)
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03/01/13 6:53:54.000 PM kernel[0]: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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03/01/13 6:53:54.000 PM kernel[0]: FireWire (OHCI) Lucent ID 5901 built-in now active, GUID a4b197fffe353428; max speed s800.
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03/01/13 6:53:54.000 PM kernel[0]: com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless kmod start
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03/01/13 6:53:54.000 PM kernel[0]: com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless load succeeded
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03/01/13 6:53:54.000 PM kernel[0]: highWaterMark: VO[ 192] VI[ 192] BE[ 192] BK[ 192]
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03/01/13 6:53:54.761 PM distnoted[58]: Bug: 12C60: liblaunch.dylib + 23849 [2F71CAF8-6524-329E-AC56-C506658B4C0C]: 0x25
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03/01/13 6:53:55.000 PM kernel[0]: IO80211Interface::efiNVRAMPublished():
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03/01/13 6:53:57.186 PM mDNSResponder[38]: mDNSResponder mDNSResponder-379.32.1 (Aug 31 2012 19:05:06) starting OSXVers 12
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03/01/13 6:53:57.253 PM hidd[45]: void __IOHIDLoadBundles(): Loaded 0 HID plugins
03/01/13 6:53:57.251 PM com.apple.usbmuxd[21]: usbmuxd-296.3 on Jul 25 2012 at 00:28:37, running 64 bit
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