Using FCE HD with a 200 gb HDD 4200-rpm drives

I am thinking of getting a 15 inch mac bok pro with the 200 gb hard drive
Is the disc speed of 4200 fast enough to run Final Cut Express HD?
I will get 3 gb of RAM as well with the system.
Thanks
Jerry

Hello Jerry,
while it is true that 7200 rpm drives are recommended with video editing, I have just finished editing a project on a friends G4 1.66 Ghz Powerbook with only 512 MB RAM.
The project consisted of roughly 3 hrs of raw video and was stored on an 60 GB LaCie Pocketdrive (4200 rpm) and editing was done in FCP HD 4.5 and After Efects. The ext. hard drive was powered by the FW bus. We encountered no problems whatsoever, although I have to say that we captured to the internal HDD using BTV Pro, then moved the video files to the external drive.
mish

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Hi dc John,
best regards from Germany. I have had the problem to get the data from my SD5 into my Mac Book Pro for a couple of weeks. Yesterday I saw your hint and everything works. Thanks again.
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Tom,
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