Powerbook or macbook pro

buying 2 laptops for mobile HD editing in FCP. also do lots of AE and PS work as well.....should I go with the macbook Pro or go with new powerbook.....no firewire 800 scares me.....all editorial will be done via external drives....and 17' screen would be nice...please help! need to buy asap.

I was ready to run out and buy a new MBP to replace my 1.67GHz G4 Powerbook. I was all excited about the new release of Final Cut Pro which runs natively on the MBP. The speed improvements and the possibility of being able to run DVD Studio Pro on HD content was most appealing...
However! After finding out that there was no Firewire 800 port I dropped any such thought of buying one. Maybe I could live with 2 firewire ports, as long as they aren't "hubbed" together inside the box and are actually descrete ports...
My whole FCP flow would be thrown out the window since I wouldn't be able to capture from my HD camcorder (Sony HDR-FX1) and store the content on my external FW800 drive. I might mention that I bought an upgraded external drive that was FW800 and fast enough to store the data at the same time I was capturing.
Now what am I suppose to do? Capture to the "slow" and "small" internal hard drive and then copy the data over to the external drive afterwards. This is NOT an Apple recommended flow or setup and it won't really work well. I don't have time to monkey with that amateur setup either.
I really hope that they remedy this limitation in their next MBP version.
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