New MacBook 2.4 and new camcorder

Hi,
I just got new MacBook w/out FireWire and I am going through internet discussions about its compatibility with (or compatibility of FCP) with HD cameras. Would you recommend HDR-XR105E or not? Most of my friends are telling me they are having problems with HDD cameras and are recommending me to buy a tape camera, but I can't (no FireWire on MacBook...)and I want to edit in FCP

1. You can run the software on a white MacBook. You will struggle with the small screen size, and some operations will be slow, but the slowness is more due to the resource demands of video processing than to the software. This is especially the case with high definition video which places extremely high demands on the processor, memory and disk.
2. MacBooks prior to the most recent models had Firewire sockets. The most recent (post January 2009) models only have USB.
3. DV and HDV camcorders require a Firewire connection - they don't have USB connections. There may be very occasional exceptions to this, but I don't know of any.
4. Hard disk/card camcorders have USB connection. High definition ones mostly use AVCHD, which is very hard work for processors. There are workflows you can use which convert AVCHD to something less hard work, which makes editing somewhat easier.
5. Some of the processes in Final Cut are very disk-intensive. If you don't have a fast connection o the disk(s) you're working to, you may get problems, most commonly very jittery or artefacted playback.
6. As Nick points out, Express isn't really any less heavy than Pro. Apart from the differences he mentioned, Pro comes as part of Studio, which includes a lot of extra software.
7. In general, a lot of the above applies to iMovie too - it's not the software, it's the work needed to process data that's the issue.
Hope that clarifies.

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