Snow Leopard or Windows 7 on an External Hard Drive?

Hello everyone,
I've been using my MacBook Pro for more than a year now (It's a late 2008 2.8 ghz Inter Core 2 Duo Unibody) and I'm getting a bit annoyed of the fact how slow it had become. I have 150GB free and I'm running a 100GB Windows 7 partition. My question is does Bootcamp actually slows down the performance of the Macbook and is there a chance (and is it worth it) to run Windows 7 or Snow Leopard through a 500 gb Firewire 800 external hard drive? Can you also give me an advice what may be the cause of the whole slowing down process and how to deal with it?
Thank you in advance,
Bobby

People have commented on 10.6.6 running slower on dual boot systems. Some have had much longer boot times. I don't think anyone knows why.
You can't run Windows on external but you can run Mac OS.
You can clone OS X easily enough to another drive. SuperDuper #1, or there is CCC and even Disk Utility Restore.
Best I've seen is use of Hard Drive Manager 2011 from Paragon for "clone OS" of Windows. And they have Boot Camp Support.
I have OS X and Windows on separate internal drives (thinking of using SSD for each or spring for something larger).
Does OS X still have 1/3 of available partition free to use?
Or is it a case of Windows having more free space than needed, and not enough for Mac? Paragon can help resize partitions.

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