Help for a bewildered idiot please

Dear Geniuses
Proud owner of an (almost new -refurb) MBP and some fine software called Final Cut Studio 2 badly needs your help
.Firstly have to admit Im a very recent convert to the Mac side of life (about 6 days!)and aforementioned software
All was going swimmingly and was very impressed (except for the lack of a right click button but hey)and had even reached lesson 3 of my training DVD when all of a sudden getting a dropped frame warning (its a MBP 17/2.5/2gb/250-5400) moved application and associated files to my Lacie 500gb - 7200 external drive (I think) connected on firewire 800 reduced the RT to medium p/b and half frame rate ...no joy still getting freezing and stuttering of picture ( I disabled warnings)
Anyway for Mac experts out there a few questions
1 would upping my Ram to 4 gb help
2 should I connect via e-SATA (and how )
3 any other suggestions
4 (whats the best mouse with a right click for a mac????)
Very frustrated but thanking all in advance
cheers

1 would upping my Ram to 4 gb help ... more RAM is always a good thing
2 should I connect via e-SATA (and how ) ... that would certainly give you faster disc access. you would need an ExpressCard/34 based eSATA adaptor
3 any other suggestions ... you can configure your OS X System Preferences >> Keyboard and Mouse >> Trackpad settings to allow you to right click by doing a two finger tap. Enable the "For secondary clicks..." option.
4 (whats the best mouse with a right click for a mac????) ... well I like the Apple Mighty Mouse personally, but any basic two button mouse will work without need for third party drivers. more "fancy" mice will usually ship with Mac drivers too
other thoughts:
just how full is your external hard disc? if its chok full of stuff then you'll likely get much reduced performance.
bigger disc drives do not necessarily mean faster disc drives. a basic RAID 0 pair will give you much better performance than a single disc
how many apps are you running simultaneously? make sure you don't have unneeded applications open at the same time as their background processes and RAM footprint will eat away at the resources available to FCP

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