To boot camp or not to boot camp

I have an older Macbookpro with a 200GB hd (I thought I had 160GB, but it's showing 199.71), with 150 GB currently free. I just upgraded to snoleopard, wiped my internal HD clean, loaded fcstudio2, and have massive backup available so I don't clutter this machine.
My intent is to make this older laptop the field tool for data wrangling; loading and transferring HD video from P2 CARDS, CF cards, etc. I know one person in particular that will want big video files transferred onto his PC formatted drives. I will either need a pc laptop for that, or I'll need to boot camp this macbookpro. I'd prefer to bootcamp it for simplicity sake, but I worry that my machine is old, and I need superior performance in the field with what I have, and I don't want to bog this laptop any more than it already is. Currently, QT is having a real hard time with my HD H.264 files- they stutter so much in QT that I can't check the files before I transfer them to the client. I won't have time in the field to convert to ProRes 442(?) in order to verify that the video is capturing effectively. I've downloaded a VLC player, which seems to handle the H.264 better, but the fact that stuff is already bogging down makes me wonder whether I should stress this machine out any more than it already is.
Do any of you have experience with bootcamp on an older macbookpro, and working with massive HD video files? I don't need to edit much, or do much else, I just want this to be an effective, flexible field tool for downloading and transferring (and verifying) video files in both pc and apple formats.
So, should I boot camp this puppy or not?
And if y'all think that bootcamp won't bog this machine down too much, how do I find the date this machine was built so I can figure out which pc OS is compatible?
Thanks!
John

If your computer is "bogged down" now, it will be "bogged down" when doing the same thing in Windows. Bootcamp uses your computer's hardware in the same way your OSX uses your computer's hardware. Just adding Bootcamp in itself won't bog down your computer any more than booting into OSX does. OSX and Windows in Bootcamp don't run at the same time. Whichever OS you boot into will use all your computer's resources.
So if your hardware is not up to task when doing video in OSX it won't be up to task when doing video in Windows (Bootcamp).

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