Laptop for editing HDV and dlsr footage... Cs5.5

H. I'm thinking of purchasing this laptop. What do you think?
Alienware M14V560122AU
Intel i7-2670 2.20GHZ with turbo up to 3.10GHz Processor
8gb ram
3gb NVIDIA GEFORCE GT 555M
750gb hdd
Windows 7 home premium
It doesn't have esata port. Only usb3. Do you think it will be fast to enough to export sequence to mpeg DVD? From HDV footage?

Here is a new next generation laptop but not yet priced HP DV7-7000 unit with a Ivy Bridge processor and Kepler graphics that has two internal drives that could be of interest to Premiere Pro users. It was on the HP web site yesterday but today it is missing, here is a blog link. Apparently they will not be shipping until June

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