Final Cut on 2.66 Macbook Pro?

Hey everybody, last year I purchased a 2.66 GHz unibody Macbook pro, and I want to start doing my video editing on it since I already use it for everything else. I have used Sony Vegas on a pc until now, and find it to be a pretty decent editor, but I would really rather be able to do it all on my laptop and with Final Cut Pro.
So my question is this, will Final Cut run smoothly on this computer? I tried the demo of adobe premier a few months ago, and HD footage from my HV-20 was really choppy to edit with, and not at all smooth looking in the preview window. From what I've heard Final Cut should run much smoother, but I was hoping someone on here might be able to tell me for sure on if this will work well, Vegas will run a really smooth preview even with hd footage and without any pre-rendering.
Oh, and here is the full specs for the laptop.
2.66 Ghz
4gb DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256MB + NVIDIA GeForce 9600M 256 MB
Also, does final cut require you to render your footage before you can edit it with a real time preview?
Thanks for any help, and to be clear, I understand that it will technically run on this computer, based on system requirements, I'm just wondering if it will run well.

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You can get it running well, and you should use another Codec (i.e., make the footage Pro Res) Alot of it depends on configurations and what you are doing with the footage. The more things you add (corrections etc.) it can slow things down - some things can be real time, some may not.
A high end tower configured properly (even an older tower) will often perform better than a newer laptop.
In other words, it may or may not be better depending on set up and other factors. That being said, I have done alot of editing on my laptops and it has been fine, but for some things it is not the same as a tower, PC or otherwise. Also my laptops spec out less than the one you have, other than having an express slot to hook up eSata dribes. (You want to have footage on drives other than your laptop drive for better performance.)

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