MACBOOK PRO and PRO RES

Hello all!
I am researching buying a 15" middle tier, macbook pro for video editing. I understand you need an HD video card to capture the HD video to convert into Pro Res. But once its in the pro res format, can you use a macbook pro to edit it?
And if you can, is it extremely slow that's it's not really worth it?
Or do you that AJA I/O to edit the pro res video with the mbp?
Also, I looked into the eSata external drives to use the mbp, but when I checked out the specs on G-tech, the pdf comparison for speeds between esata and firewire 800 was miniscule. Isn't esata supposed to be much faster than firewire?

You can most definately edit ProRes on a MacBook Pro. FW800 RAIDED drive would be required for this, like the G-Raid, FirewireVR, LaCie D2. However, eSATA is faster and MUCH better. I don't know where you got your numbers for FW800-eSATA comparison, but if they are single drives, eSATA is 20MB-40MB/s faster. Get Raided drives and it is VASTLY different. 75MB/s for FW800 Raid 0 hardware raided drives (G-Raid) vs 140MB/s eSATA (S2VR Duo).
I can edit ProRes with my Powerbook G4 laptop...I just can't capture it.
And with the I/O HD, you have the perfect remote ProRes setup...and because it is a Firewire capture device, you must have an eSATA drive...well, you can get a firewire card, but eSATA is much better.
Shane

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