Which machine for fcp

I am looking at either the 17" mac book pro or the new g5intel chip
anyone lean any particular way for final cut studio?
portability is nice option /// am i really sacrificing alot of difference in power?
thanks

Your right Patrick
I mean the Mac Book Pro
Using FCP Studio? If your budget allowed only one machine
and provided that I also hook up a raid with it? would you go with the MAC PRO or the Mac Book Pro?
MAC BOOK PRO SPECS:
17-inch widescreen display
1680 x 1050 resolution
2.16GHz Intel Core Duo(1)
2GB (single SODIMM) 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM
100GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA hard drive
8x double-layer SuperDrive
ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 with 256MB GDDR3 memory
One FireWire 400, one FireWire 800, and three USB 2.0 ports
MAC PRO SPECS:
Two 2.66GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon "Woodcrest" processors
4MB shared L2 cache per processor
1.33GHz dual independent frontside buses
1GB memory (667MHz DDR2 fully-buffered DIMM ECC)
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT graphics with 256MB memory
250GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s 7200-rpm hard drive1
16x double-layer SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
vram would be important for motion as Jerry pointed out.
Regards
Dave KC

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