HD editing with a Macbook Pro

Hi everyone,
This is my first post, so please be gentle. : )
I don't have a mac yet, but after years of unreliable PC's (not to mention Premiere crashing all the time) I am looking at buying one for editing.
I can't realistically afford a macpro tower, but a macbook pro I could just about stretch to.
However, at somepoint I will be wanting to edit HD video. I have heard that the macbook pro cannot edit full uncompressed HD. What is the difference between compressed and uncompressed?
Another thing, would it be possible to attatch an external monitor to the macbookpro and use it as a second editing monitor? Also - can I hook up a TV (possibly HD) and output the edit signal to that?
Thanks for the help, I am new to the world of mac's and don't know where else to look.

You cannot do uncompressed HD on a laptop. The highest end formats you can edit are DVCPRO HD and ProRes 422. But ProRes is the real breakthrough as that codec gets you uncompressed HD quality at a smaller data rate...the data rate of uncompressed SD, which a laptop can do. You'll need an eSATA RAID, as Gogiangogo mentioned.
Cameras? Panasonic DVCPRO HD cameras like the HVX-200, Panasonic Varicam, and their variety of midrange P2 and tape cameras....that is for DVCPRO HD.
For ProRes? You'll need the AJA I/O HD for capture. This has a hardware encoder on it to encode to ProRes 422. For this you can use ANY camera. F900 HDCAM, F950...all the higher end cameras. And you can also hook up a lower end HDV camera and bypass tape and capture that way.
What is your budget? HD is a complex and VERY often expensive venture.
Shane

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Hi all,
I purchased a Macbook pro in the middle of January 2011 with some inheritance money. I went for the cheapest one - was going to go for the white macbook like my partner but thought it would be worth the extra money to upgrade to the pro. It was the first time i had made the move from PC to Mac, but was fairly familiar with the systems having owned an ipod touch for a while and my partner also having a macbook.
4 months on...and i have to say I am really really disappointed with my Macbook pro and certainly not worth over £1000 i paid for it. This is mainly because:
i find that after a while of watching movies (15 - 20 mins), the video starts to "stutter" and the mouse jumps when i try to move it. I thought this was only the case on flash-based websites (like Youtube - although there is no problem on my partners basic macbook) so installed click2flash. I have since come to realise that it also happens whilst watching DVDs etc. I also thought it may be when the battery is low, but it happens even when it is plugged in. I cant understand how it happens on mine but not my partners even though my Pro is supposed to be a high spec (isnt it???)
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I'm very frustrated and can't help but wonder if maybe i should have just got a £500 windows laptop instead!
Any help and feedback would be much appreciated. Are Apple Support good at dealing with stuff like this? Am i best calling and discussing over the phone or taking it in to a Genius bar? I have also ran all the latest software updates.
Thanks!
Tom
PS - my hardware overview is as follows:
Hardware Overview:
Model Name:          MacBook Pro
Model Identifier:          MacBookPro7,1
Processor Name:          Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed:          2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors:          1
Total Number Of Cores:          2
L2 Cache:          3 MB
Memory:          4 GB
Bus Speed:          1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version:          MBP71.0039.B0B
SMC Version (system):          1.62f6
Serial Number (system):          W8***M
Hardware UUID:          A6DAE6B2-A0CB-56E4-974E-7352CAFCD40C
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State:          Enabled
NVIDIA GeForce 320M:
Chipset Model:          NVIDIA GeForce 320M
Type:          GPU
Bus:          PCI
VRAM (Total):          256 MB
Vendor:          NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID:          0x08a0
Revision ID:          0x00a2
ROM Revision:          3533
Displays:
Color LCD:
Resolution:          1280 x 800
Pixel Depth:          32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Main Display:          Yes
Mirror:          Off
Online:          Yes
Built-In:          Yes
Display Connector:
Status:          No Display Connected
HARD DRIVE: TOSHIBA MK2555GSXF:
Capacity:          250.06 GB (250,059,350,016 bytes)
Model:          TOSHIBA MK2555GSXF
Revision:          FH405B
Serial Number:                     Y0***T
Native Command Queuing:          Yes
Queue Depth:          32
Removable Media:          No
Detachable Drive:          No
BSD Name:          disk0
Rotational Rate:          5400
Medium Type:          Rotational
Partition Map Type:          GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status:          Verified
Volumes:
Capacity:          209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)
Writable:          Yes
BSD Name:          disk0s1
Macintosh HD:
Capacity:          249.72 GB (249,715,376,128 bytes)
Available:          200.11 GB (200,105,803,776 bytes)
Writable:          Yes
File System:          Journaled HFS+
BSD Name:          disk0s2
Mount Point:          /
DISC DRIVE: MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-898:
Model:          MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-898
Revision:          HC10
Serial Number:                  UK***B
Native Command Queuing:          No
Detachable Drive:          No
Power Off:          Yes
Async Notification:          No
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>the video starts to "stutter" and the mouse jumps when i try to move it.
That's the fault of the video format you are viewing. It probably caches itself to the hard disk, and the sudden motion sensor gets triggered by the hard drive, if you give it any innertia. You could create a RAM Disk with any of a number of solutions you can Google.
And DVD drives don't like being bounced around.   See what I have to say about CD failure below too.   Anything can cause a disc to get unbalanced, and not play back right.   I would not attempt to play DVDs while the machine is in motion, as you can damage the DVD drive of any machine that is.
Garageband has its own forum here: https://discussions.apple.com/community/ilife/garageband where someone can tell you if there is a setting you missed to improve the recordings.
CD Burning is a menace throughout the industry because a lot of media is not very high quality. See my FAQ*:
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