MacBookPro vs PowerBook Capturing Working w/HDV - CardBus vs no ExpressCard

I have seen the benchmarks and the posts here, and it is clear, but for the issues below, I should be getting a MacBook Pro now that my older PowerBook has run into issues. Once footage is captured it seems to be a no-brainer (This thread http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2122030&#2122030 touched on what I am asking, but that was from a couple months back and did not know if there is newer info.)
But the rules of (1) do not send Camera through same Bus as drives and (2) do not capture to system drive really is holding me back and do not know if I should be as concerned as I am.
I plan on capturing HDV to make sure there are back up of tapes on site in the event something happens during travel to the tapes (airport security/lost tapes, etc.) and also will be doing edits and DVD SP work that will have to be turned around very quickly when I get back to my G5 tower to meet deadlines
In the past I use a CardBus with FW800 or another CardBus with SATA for the drives and use the FW in on the computer for the camera.
Since the ExpressCards are not here (the one FW800 is out of stock) and I have to make a decision now (I will be travelling before ExpressCards come back in) I was wondering if someone has worked with HDV recently without an ExpressCard on a MacBook Pro
I am leaning towards getting a 17" PowerBook because of the capture issues (and hold off on Intel Chips then for awhile) and that the machine may be more "stable" as oppossed to the newer Intel setups, but was hoping that perhaps the SATA internal drives on the MacBook Pro or the FW ports have changed the rules somehow (though looking at the threads that the MacBook Pro FW may have power issues?) Plug the camera into a FW Dive then the drive to the computer? (Saw some people had success with this)
Thanks for any new insight to the issues

I'd be looking at the intel MBP... It's a lot more machine, and is definately the future of the platform...if you have issues looping the signal through a firewire drive (I've never had the problem using Granite Digital or Weibetech or G-Raid drives FWIW), then I'm quite sure you could capture to the internal, then move the media... heck folks have done this with PowerBooks so the faster SATA's in the MBPs should do the job just fine.
http://www.supergooddeal.com/XterasysExpressCard_1394b_Host_Adapterp/e94b.htm has an 800 adapter in stock, so if you ran into a problem with a MBP, an 800 drive should do the trick, attached to this adapter.
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