Is my MacBook Pro (really) suitable for Motion?

This is just a general question, but my understanding of Motion was that it relies heavily on the memory of the graphics card. I have a MacBook Pro - the unibody right before they sealed the battery and added an SD card slot with 4 GB RAM.
Motion always seems to run slow after just a little work, and will lock up or slow down the entire machine. My MBP has 512 MB video memory just like my MacPro at work. Is it the RAM that's hurting me? I am not expecting MacPro performance, but the video RAM is the same.
Would appreciate if anyone could help make sense of this. I expected my MBP to run Motion much more smoothly (with mostly Apple ProRes and HDV for the time being)

Sounds like a problem with Excel, perhaps you have a Macro virus.
Download the free ClamXav and run a scan
http://www.clamxav.com/
Then uninstall and reinstall Office.
You can always use the free LibreOffice
http://www.libreoffice.org/download

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