Mac Pro vs MacBook Pro?

Hello everyone. I have a question about the mac pro vs the macbook pro. Since the new laptops were released, they seem to put up a pretty good fight against the mac pro. I have an early 2008 8 core w/ 8gb ram, nvidia 8800gt and ati. 3tb hdd, dual superdrive. i use it for normal use but also editing in final cut pro in 1080i avchd video and audio. i was thinking that in a year i was going to upgrade it to whatever new mac pro comes out because in a year it will be 4 years old, and much newer technology will be available. But now that the new MBPs are out, i am considering selling it and getting the 17 inch. The big hard drive, thunderbolt, great gpu, hyperthreading processor with turbo boost to double the number of virtual cores seems pretty compelling. on top of that, my current 2007 mbp broke and i am out of a laptop. The thing i love about laptops is the portability.
So what does everyone think. Is the 17inch powerful enough to handle what i do on my mac pro, and in your opinion should i switch?
thanks

The old MBP already handles pretty good, I've been using my MBP "2.66 / 8GB Ram" for heavy Final cut studio, editing lengthy HD footage, grading with Color, animation using Motion and this machine has never crashed on me not even once.
With the new generation of MBPs I think that things can be done even faster and thunderbolt technology is surly a welcome option for FCP user as it's gonna accelerate the whole editing experience.
some new benchmarks are showing the top of the line MBP to be even faster than actual MPs!
I do have a quad MacPro, but soon after I got the 27" Cinema display for my MBP I'm almost not using my MP anymore, so me too I'm considering selling it.
All this however does not mean MPs are doomed, the expandability it offers is phenomenal and portables won't match that.
in your case, if portability is more important than expandability then get the MBP, my advise is to get the 15" + an Apple cinema display, with such a configuration you have the best of both words.

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