Pimp out my ibook, or go Powerbook?

Just got an ibook 1.42 Ghz. I'm doing some video editing so I need to either a. pimp it out with another 1 GB of RAM and a 100 GB 5400 RPM hard drive for under $500 (incl. installation), or....
b. Return it to Apple (they said they'd do it for a 100$ refurbish fee) and get a powerbook with a 100 GB 5400 RPM drive for an extra $1200 or so.
Any comments, suggestions about this? Will the ibook sing with a 5400 HD?
Or do i need to suck it up and get the powerbook?
Thanks!
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Just a suggestion. Don't get a new internal hard drive, get a firewire drive. This will have a faster hard drive and will let OS X and imovie run off the internal and all the movie / audio files will be happy running on the external drive. Defiantly the most bang for your buck and a bigger performance boost.

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